AFAS 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Value Pluralism, African Philosophy

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Africana Studies Main
• Course: AFAS 222
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

There is a justification for talking of african philosophy or describing an african body of ideas. Impossible for african ideas to be simple or uniform. No need to generalize a particular philosophical position in order for it to be african. Cultural pluralism is a consequence of ethnic pluralism in africa. Cp does not eliminate the possibility of horizontal relationships between individual cultures. Other works fail to convey the idea that african cultures can be examined from a congenital perspective. Underlying affinity do run under african beliefs throughout various african societies. Ethical pluralism does not produce absolute verticlaism. Most african peoples do have a concept of god as the supreme being who created the whole universe out of nothing. African ontology recognizes supreme being and lesser spirits, ancestors, man, and the physical world of natural objects and phenomena. Possess attributes of both idealistic and materialistic.