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African Traditional Thought

PERSON AND COMMUNITY IN AFRICANTRADITIONAL THOUGHTI feanyi A. MenkitiMy aim in this paper is to articulate a certain conceptionof the person found in African Traditional Thought . I shallattempt do this in an idiom, or language, familiar to modernphilosophy. In this regard it is helpful to begin by pointing toafew significant contrasts between this African conception of theperson and various other conceptions found in Western first contrast worth noting is that, whereas mostWestern views of man abstract this or that feature of the loneindividual and then proceed to make it the defining or essentialcharacteristic which entities aspiring to the description" man"must have, the African view of man denies that persons can bedefined by focusing on this or that physical or psychologicalcharacteristic of. the lone individual. Rather, man is defined byreference to the environing community.

African thought--the fact that persons become persons only after a process of incorporation . Without incorporation into this or that community, individuals are considered to be mere danglers to whom the description ' person ' does not fully apply . For person-hood is …

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