Attoe Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics

The Idea of Predeterministic Historicity
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-91109-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 117 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter one: Introduction.- Chapter Two: Existence and the Thing We Call God.- Chapter Three: Being, in Singular Complementarity.- Chapter Four: From Causality to Predeterministic Historicity (PDH).- Chapter Five: Determinism and the Death of Free Will.- Chapter Six: Death in our Predeterministic world.- Chapter Seven: 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.