Abstract:
Owing to the prevalence of belief in spiritual beings and in the reality
of some non-physical events in traditional cultures like those of Africa,
the orientation of the people is typically regarded as supernaturalistic.
But while some anthropologists and philosophers see belief in the
supernatural as irrational, others argue in ways that seem to suggest
that supernaturalism limits the rational capacity of the African thinker.
This paper rejects the positions held by these scholars and, using Akan
traditional wisdom, argues for the possibility of extricating rationality
from the domain of cultures – making rationality a matter of conceptual,
noncultural objectivity.
