@inbook{8909aa57b61b4bf38e3c552ef33887f6,
title = "Alexis Kagame on the Bantu Philosophy of Be-ing, Aristotle's Categoriae, and De interpretatione",
abstract = "Kagame's exposition of the Rwandese philosophy of be-ing is a classic in African philosophy. The exposition is much more than a conversation with Aristotle's Categoriae and the De interpretatione. This raises the question whether or not Kagame claims that the philosophy of be-ing of the Bantu-speaking peoples is conceptually similar to or different from Aristotle's categories of being. The thesis to be defended in this essay is that the philosophy of be-ing of the Bantu-speaking peoples derives from a different experience but contains some concepts similar to Aristotle's categories of being. The difference of experience does not, by necessity, reduce the philosophy of be-ing of the Bantu-speaking peoples to ethnophilosophy. Nor does it necessarily deprive this philosophy of the status of {"}universal{"}.",
keywords = "African philosophy, Alexis Kagame, Bantu philosophy, Rwandese philosophy, ethnophilosophy",
author = "Ramose, {Mogobe B.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2006 Brill. All rights reserved",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1163/9789004501447_007",
language = "English",
series = "Studien zur interkulturellen Philosophie/Studies in Intercultural Philosophy/Etudes de philosophie interculturelle",
publisher = "Brill Academic Publishers",
pages = "53--61",
booktitle = "Studien zur interkulturellen Philosophie/Studies in Intercultural Philosophy/Etudes de philosophie interculturelle",
address = "Netherlands",
}