Supernaturalism and the philosophical character of the traditional African thinker.

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2012

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Legon Journal of the Humanities

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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 of Africa is normally regarded as generally 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.

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rationality, traditional society, supernaturalism, noncultural objectivity, Akan philosophy

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Majeed Mohammed (2012). Supernaturalism and the philosophical character of the traditional African thinker. Legon Journal of the Humanities, (23) p. 57-74.

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