African Philosophy
Title: African Philosophy
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 521 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
African Philosophy
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 521 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
One of the foundations of the African concept of harmony and peace rests upon the basic African
cultural world-view of the philosophy of participation and integration. There is no drastic
distinction between man and nature. The theory of knowledge that the African cultural experience
projects, is that the world is centered upon the self and that man lives in a personal world of culture.
The African culture does not assume that reality can be perceived
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This is debatable but the position of this
paper is that the European culture has not conceptualized what nature is and this explains why the
European culture has failed to produce a single enduring religion. For the African, the unity of the
world is ultimately founded upon religion or faith. The African, believes in the existence of a Creator,
in divinities and in ancestors. This view about nature creates values common to the African people.