Mounier and Africa

Personalism claims to be a method of thinking that goes against the grain of the philosophical tradition and defends the person more than it deals with him. It aims at the liberation of the human being from all things that suffocate him. It is based on metaphysical research based on real facts in an impulse of interpersonal relationships. Personalism pursues and promotes community life, based on reality and in no way separated from the divine reality. In accordance with such a vision which idealizes the journey allowing access to concrete facts, Emmanuel Mounier goes to Africa on the occasion of the French alliance, during which he takes an interest in the existential realities of the Africans at the socio-cultural, economic, political and environmental levels, which he analyzes with lucidity. He retains then of this people, a community existence which avoids any possibility of individual adventure. Moreover, Mounier retains that the Africans lead a life of passivity and innocence with regard to physical nature.