Imagine substituting leptons and quarks for gods and spirits
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12858013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniël P Veldsman (0000-0002-8734-2171, University of South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 156-171 |
| Publication date | 2000-08-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Verbum et Ecclesia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1609-9982 • E-ISSN: 2074-7705 |
| Publisher | AOSIS (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.4102/ve.v21i1.1188 |
| OpenAlex | W2092593951 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Guided by the conviction that an exhaustive exploration of features common to modern Western and traditional African thought should come before the enumeration of differences, it is argued that the general propositions that can be formulated on the nature and function of Western traditional thinking are highly relevant to traditional African thinking. Despite the fact that African worldview reflections are mostly in terms of the world of which “we are part”, and not the world where “we are inside”, which is common to Western reflection, a surprisingly fundamental similarity exists in the type of conceptuality employed as well as in the process of theory making
Aesthetics · Conviction · Epistemology · Function (biology · Political science · Reflection (computer programming · Similarity (geometry · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · African history and culture analysis · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |