Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics

The Idea of Predeterministic Historicity
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-91108-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 117 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 303 g

It is not far-fetched to say that much of what is termed “African metaphysics” remains a traditional affair, without the sort of critical analysis that sheds away the burden of myths and ethnocentric rigidity. African ideas about the nature of being, God, causality, death, etc., have largely remained the same and unchallenged, mainly due to the hesitancy of some African scholars to question these suppositions or build beyond them. In this book, Aribiah David Attoe presents a unified African metaphysics that first interrogates important notions held by many traditional African thinkers, and then builds upon them to propose a largely materialistic account of African metaphysics. The book re-imagines and reconstructs the idea of God, being, causality and death in African metaphysics, tackling some of the problems associated with these concepts in African thought. It also opens up new vistas of thought, while engaging and encouraging African metaphysicians to explore a previously ignored perspective.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Attoe, Aribiah David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Afrikanische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction



Chapter One: Existence and the Thing We Call God



Chapter Two: Being, in Singular Complementarity



Chapter Three: From Causality to Predeterministic Historicity (PDH)




Chapter Four: Determinism and the Death of Free Will



Chapter Five: Death in our Predeterministic world



Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Aribiah David Attoe is currently a Lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; and a member of the Conversational Society of Philosophy, Calabar, Nigeria.