Download or read book Theistic Humanism of African Philosophy written by Maduabuchi Dukor and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a hermeneutic anatomy of the theistic overtones and humanistic undertones of African philosophy of culture. It shows that theism and humanism are not contradictions in African Philosophy; their synthesis generates a pragmatic African personhood, a unified human nature and world-view. Hence, Theistic Humanism, Theistic pansychism and Theistic animism form a transcendental unity of apperception and a prolegomena to future African metaphysics. This is one of Maduabuchi Dukor's four Great works, Magnum Opus, on African Philosophy which include: African Freedom, the Freedom of Philosophy, African Philosophy in the Global village and Scientific Paradigm in African Philosophy.
Download or read book Theistic Humanism of African Philosophy The Great Debate on Substance and Method of Philosophy written by Maduabuchi Dukor and published by Malthouse Press. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Maduabuchi Dukor seeks to articulate an authentic African Philosophy, one which is distinct and at its heart is a unique combination of holding that the enhancement of human interest is the ultimate end, albeit set in a world imbued with imperceptible agents such as God, lesser divinities, and ancestors. Dukor applies this 'theistic humanism' to a variety of debates, including idealism/materialism, mind/body, and determinism/indeterminism.
Download or read book Theistic Humanism written by Maduabuchi F. Dukor and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific Paradigm in African Philosophy written by Maduabuchi Dukor and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an exposition, analysis and synthesis of the cultural and scientific propositions of African theistic panpsychic logic, epistemology and ontology. This enterprise is a great attempt to compare and synthesize African theistic humanism, theistic panpsychism, theistic animism and transcendentalism with such western philosophical and scientific theories as Quantum mechanics, General relativity, Quantum gravity and Kantian transcendental logic and Dialectics. Theistic panpsychic logic, epistemology and ontology presupposes key concepts for African self-definition, civilization and scientific development. This is one of Maduabuchi Dukor's four Great works, Magnum Opus, on African Philosophy which include: African Freedom, the Freedom of Philosophy, Theistic Humanism of African of Philosophy and African Philosophy in the Global Village.
Download or read book African Philosophy in the Global Village written by Maduabuchi Dukor and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a philosophical exposition and analysis of Theistic panpsychic rationality of African values, literature, poetry, communication, arts and science as African contributions to the Global village. Theistic panpsychic rationality is not only the African second order method for identifying and solving human problems but also the metaphysics and hermeneutics of African literature such as Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart' as well as African conceptions of ethics, history and science. It is a synthesis of the classical and contemporary African philosophies and a bridge to African self-determination and renaissance in the postmodern world. This is one of Maduabuchi Dukor's four Great works, Magnum Opus, on African Philosophy which include: African Freedom, the Freedom of Philosophy, Theistic Humanism of African of Philosophy and Scientific Paradigm in African Philosophy.
Download or read book African Philosophy in the Global Village written by Maduabuchi Dukor and published by Malthouse Press. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Maduabuchi Dukor presents a comprehensive interpretation of African Philosophy that is informed by the idea that everything in the universe includes a 'spiritual' dimension, what he calls theistic humanism. Imperceptible agents such as God, lesser divinities, and ancestors, as well as forces such as witchcraft and magic, play prominent roles in Dukor's accounts of not just metaphysics, but also ethics, aesthetic, and epistemics. By highlighting the diversity in intellectual world currents philosophy stimulates intercultural dialogue, African Philosophy in the Global Village. Theistic Panpsychic Rationality, Axiology and Science is a response to major contemporary socio-cultural challenges in the global village.
Download or read book African Freedom written by Maduabuchi Dukor and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African people have been set on the edge of dependence, slavery and deprivation because of the history and politics of White and Black or Racism which started from the ancient Greece, through the 19th century colonialism to the 21st century imperialism and neocolonialism. The result is an African continent characterized by underdevelopment. The objective of this work is, therefore, to rediscover and re-assert the substance of the African as an ontological being without a history of oppression, dehumanization and defacement. The methodology is historical, analytical and hermeneutical. It explores the meanings of freedom and then an ideological anatomy of the dynamics of colonialism and neocolonialism. Finally the work x-rays the concepts and practice of globalization and social change with some thematic and pragmatic postulates for African renaissance such as postmodernism, globalized democratic existentialism and the logic of African freedom. "African Freedom, the Freedom of Philosophy" is one of the four Great works of Maduabuchi Dukor on African Philosophy which include, "Theistic Humanism of African Philosophy", "Scientific Paradigm In African Philosophy" and "African Philosophy in the Global Village", all for Researchers, Scientists, Students and Scholars.
Download or read book Polyrhythmicity written by Kofi Kissi Dompere and published by Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern works on African philosophy have not been integrated and fully connected to Africa's antiquity in order to provide a foundational unity for further intellectual refinement. The philosophical dimensions of humanism, Nkrumah's concept of categorial conversion, African concepts of duality, polarity, unity, continual creation and democratic ideals must be shown their African-centered origins. In considering African philosophy, there arise conceptual and logical gaps that require the development of fundamental cognitive unity from the available data with judicious interpretation and restructuring in order to define the parameters of African philosophical unity that will allow these gaps to be closed for intellectual continuity. This monograph is devoted to the establishment of the foundations for the development of Africa's intellectual continuity and cognitive unity from antiquity to the present. Its main premise is that there is African philosophy with its own method of reasoning, analysis and synthesis. The monograph initiates self-contained philosophical foundations for African intellectual unity that is required to support African cultural unity, African personality, African essence and humanism needed for the creation of Greater Africa that is implied by African Union. These philosophical foundations, it is argued, formed the thinking system for Africa's social construct, law, economics, politics and governance of empires, kingdoms and social units that have come to pass. These philosophical foundations constitute the thinking system that must guide current and future Africa's socioeconomic dynamics. The monograph discusses also Africa's contributions to the global intellectual heritage by showing the relationships among foundations of African philosophical tradition and other philosophical systems that lead to rediviva Africana. It presents the principles of cognitive unity and continuity on the held position that without clearly developed Africa's philosophical foundations from its antiquity providing intellectual unity and cognitive continuity complete emancipation of Africa will be a mere mimicking of intellectual faults of other nations and philosophical systems. The research by African scholars and others on specific philosophical thoughts from different areas of Africa is useful materials that must be integrated into cognitive unity by accepting those that fit and rejecting those that do not fit by a defined logical process. Mindful of this, a case is thus made in this monograph for African cognitive unity and supporting reasoning methods. The system of ideas and perceptive interpretations of relevant data is, here, referred to as Africentricity, and its philosophical foundations that project thought as polyrhythmicity while the study of logic of reasoning about methodological and epistemic problems of polyrhythmicity and Africentricity is referred to as polyrhythmics. On practical level these philosophical foundations are shown to support the conceptual basis of Nguzo Saba (the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa). The monograph would be of interest to philosophers in general, professionals, researchers and students engaged in African philosophy, African studies, Black studies, socio-political philosophy and those interested in knowing the thinking system on the basis of which African essence arises and African social formations were constructed and governed from antiquity.
Download or read book Njikoka Amaka written by Godfrey Okechukwu Ozumba and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Njik ka Amaka: Further Discussions on the Philosophy of Integrative Humanism (A Contribution to African and Intercultural Philosophies) presents philosophy from the view point of African thought system and logic. It presents African philosophy not as a reactionary to another brand of philosophy as is popularly the case among writers of African philosophy but as an unspoken, unstated rival of the positions of other philosophical traditions, with great emphasis on the importance of intercultural philosophizing. Somehow, the work manages to be eclectic in welding orientations in the spirit of intercultural philosophy and it makes no pretense that it was written primarily for the contemporary lover of wisdom. The focal point which remains unwavering throughout was the further development of integrative humanism as a theory in African philosophy. The language style of this work was carefully knitted in simplistic and in some places bombastic forms. Simplistic to appeal to all class of readers and bombastic to demonstrate the emerging orientation that one way to hit back at the domineering colonial languages would be to speak them in deconstructive manner. The Englishness or the Frenchness of those colonial languages are in this book broken; traditional meanings of words are in some places altered to reflect the African senses; some other words are reshaped in various forms to reflect what the African has in mind and what he means; idioms are reinterpreted to reflect the unabashed and highest degree of indomitable Africanness; this is because a language that would bear forth African truths if it yet remains foreign can only emerge from the ruins of the one that bore Western truths. The benchmark of the theory of integrative humanism as a vanguard for intercultural philosophy is a passage from bivalent to trivalent mode of logical interpretation wherein the intermediate position is hoisted as the necessary missing link of reality.
Download or read book Handbook of African Philosophy written by Elvis Imafidon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides in one volume rich, comprehensive and rigorous coverage of specific subject areas and thematic concerns in the ever-evolving academic discipline of African philosophy. This Handbook is unique in its focus on central and emerging areas within African philosophy such as Afro-communitarian philosophy, ethics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, existentialism, philosophy of religion, gender philosophy, philosophy of education, phenomenology, transhumanism, African philosophy futures, and philosophy of the non-human. The thirty-two chapters in this Handbook explore the rich textual and non-textual forms of philosophical knowledge in Africa and adequately represent the broad and diverse scope of African philosophy, showing the richness and depth of the philosophical tradition. This reference work is indispensable to students and researchers in African philosophy, comparative philosophy and world philosophies.
Download or read book Igwebuike Philosophy an African Philosophy of Integrative Humanism written by Ejikemeuwa J. O. Ndubisi Ph.D and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.
Download or read book Igwebuike Ontology an African Philosophy of Humanity Towards the Other written by Ejikemeuwa J. O. Ndubisi Ph.D and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of readings is designed to accomplish two tasks: to philosophize on Igwebuike and to honour Professor KANU, Ikechukwu Anthony, O.S.A. These two tasks or goals go hand in hand because Igwebuike is Professor Kanu’s philosophy. The book clearly demonstrates why Kanu deserves honour as an African philosopher who has introduced a way of doing African philosophy. It is an approach of doing philosophy that takes into account African ontology and cosmology. Igwebuike as a systematic African thought is exploratory in nature. It investigates issues with a view of seeing how they are related. Doing philosophy in this way takes into account not only the African context but the world as a complex entity with myriads of challenges. The myriads of challenges facing humanity have a representation in this book. For this reason the book is bound to have a global impact. In terms of philosophizing, this book demonstrates that Africa is confronted with many discourses. Discourses that are already going on but need a more systematic African philosophical approach. Some of the discourses are on the environment, governance, infrastructure, human and material resource among others. — Denis Odinga Okiya Maryknoll Insitute of African Studies, Nairobi, Kenya
Download or read book Scientific Paradigm in African Philosophy written by Maduabuchi F. Dukor and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doing Philosophy Personally written by Dwayne A. Tunstall and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Gabriel Marcel's religious existentialism, when coupled with Lewis Gordon's existential phenomenological account of antiblack racism, can provide valuable resources for constructing a theistic humanism that is opposed to antiblack racism.
Download or read book African Philosophy for the Twenty First Century written by Jean Godefroy Bidima and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Africa, the twenty-first century began with new challenges surrounding and regarding philosophical discourses. Questions of economic and political liberation, the displacement of populations and the process of urbanization present ongoing challenges, linked to problems such as endemic diseases and famine, the restructure of the traditional family, gender and the position of women, the transmission of culture from past to future generations. Changes in labor relations resulting from introduction of financial speculation, cutting edge technologies, and differential access to digital and older cultural forms have placed real demands on Africans and Africanists working in philosophy. This volume explores the ways in which African philosophies express “transitional acts,” those acts by which thought interacts with history as it is being made and by which it assures its own renewal in proposing provisional solutions to historical problems. A transitional act combines both the audacity of confrontation and the novelty of creation, prudence in the face of risks and anticipation in the face of the unexpected. Influential and emerging thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic consider this dual activity in the realm of criticism and imagination, public spaces in Africa, and the relationship between historical politics and historical poetics.
Download or read book Understanding African Philosophy written by Richard H. Bell and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Polyrhythmicity written by K. K. Dompere and published by Adonis & Abbey Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern works on African philosophy have not been integrated and fully connected to Africa's antiquity in order to provide a foundational unity for further intellectual refinement. The philosophical dimensions of humanism, Nkrumah's concept of categorial conversion, African concepts of duality, polarity, unity, continual creation and democratic ideals must be shown their African-centered origins. In considering African philosophy, there arise conceptual and logical gaps that require the development of fundamental cognitive unity from the available data with judicious interpretation and restructuring in order to define the parameters of African philosophical unity that will allow these gaps to be closed for intellectual continuity. This monograph is devoted to the establishment of the foundations for the development of Africa's intellectual continuity and cognitive unity from antiquity to the present. Its main premise is that there is African philosophy with its own method of reasoning, analysis and synthesis. The monograph initiates self-contained philosophical foundations for African intellectual unity that is required to support African cultural unity, African personality, African essence and humanism needed for the creation of Greater Africa that is implied by African Union. These philosophical foundations, it is argued, formed the thinking system for Africa's social construct, law, economics, politics and governance of empires, kingdoms and social units that have come to pass. These philosophical foundations constitute the thinking system that must guide current and future Africa's socioeconomic dynamics. The monograph discusses also Africa's contributions to the global intellectual heritage by showing the relationships among foundations of African philosophical tradition and other philosophical systems that lead to rediviva Africana. It presents the principles of cognitive unity and continuity on the held position that without clearly developed Africa's philosophical foundations from its antiquity providing intellectual unity and cognitive continuity complete emancipation of Africa will be a mere mimicking of intellectual faults of other nations and philosophical systems. The research by African scholars and others on specific philosophical thoughts from different areas of Africa is useful materials that must be integrated into cognitive unity by accepting those that fit and rejecting those that do not fit by a defined logical process. Mindful of this, a case is thus made in this monograph for African cognitive unity and supporting reasoning methods. The system of ideas and perceptive interpretations of relevant data is, here, referred to as Africentricity, and its philosophical foundations that project thought as polyrhythmicity while the study of logic of reasoning about methodological and epistemic problems of polyrhythmicity and Africentricity is referred to as polyrhythmics. On practical level these philosophical foundations are shown to support the conceptual basis of Nguzo Saba (the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa). The monograph would be of interest to philosophers in general, professionals, researchers and students engaged in African philosophy, African studies, Black studies, socio-political philosophy and those interested in knowing the thinking system on the basis of which African essence arises and African social formations were constructed and governed from antiquity.
