Abstract
Philosophers for a very long time now have called attention to or revealed the difficulties men have in living together. Jean Paul Sartre, among others, has revealed the necessity of conflict in human relations in opposition to thinkers who have perceived other forms of relations among human beings. According to Edgar Morin, we are still in the prehistoric mode of the human mind and thinking implying that the human mental capacities are still under-exploited especially at the level of our relations with others. We are, as such, barbarians in our relations with others. In the conflict-relation predominating up to date and constituting a major pathology the question is if there are other forms of relations that are envisageable? The axial point of this paper is to reveal the significant point of convergence between western thinkers (ie, Kant, Emmanuel Levinas etc. ) and the sapential function in African thought regarding a ceremonious experience with others.
