African Traditional Thought and Western Science

1967/04/01 by Robin Horton · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #African cultural and philosophical studies

paper · doi:10.2307/1158253

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Abstract

Opening Paragraph In Part I of this paper, I pushed as far as it would go the thesis that important continuities link the religious thinking of traditional Africa and the theoretical thinking of the modern West. I showed how this view helps us to make sense of many otherwise puzzling features of traditional religious thinking. I also showed how it helps us to avoid certain rather troublesome red herrings which lie across the path towards understanding the crucial differences between the traditional and the scientific outlook.

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