Understanding and Ontology in Traditional African Thought

In M. Brown Lee (ed.), African Philosophy: New and Traditional Perspectives (2006)
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This essay discusses how ontological commitments within modern Western culture are no less problematic than those within traditional African cultures. Each posits unobservable entities to explain the experiential world, and neither has ready access to those posits held as grounding or as otherwise determining what is experienced. It looks at the conceptions of persons in Western and African traditions and suggests that each tradition can learn from the other.

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