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The Cognitive Significance of African Traditional Metaphysics

Year 2017, Issue: 28, 43 - 54, 30.04.2017
https://doi.org/10.20981/kaygi.307939

Abstract

The paper examines the issue of African metaphysics which revolves round the conception of a vital force which the Africans take as the primary unifying stuff of the universe permeating all existing being, physical, quasi-physical or spiritual. The paper finds that this unifying force is significant or dynamic. The method of analysis is conceptual. The paper concludes that in African traditional metaphysics lies a fertile source of knowledge and values exploration that are essential in a changing world.

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Year 2017, Issue: 28, 43 - 54, 30.04.2017
https://doi.org/10.20981/kaygi.307939

Abstract

References

  • Appiah, K. A. (1992). In My father’s House: African in the Philosophy of Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Asouzu, I. I. (2005). “Science and African Metaphysics: A Search for Direction”, Philosophy in Africa, Boston: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy Aug. 1998, www.Paideia.com, accessed Sep. 15, 2005.
  • Brown, M. L. (2004). “Understanding and Ontology in African Traditional Thought” in Lee M. Brown (ed), African Philosophy: New and Traditional Perspectives, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Ekanola, A. B. (2006). “Metaphysical Issues in African Philosophy,” in Olusegun Oladipo (ed), Core Issues in African Philosophy, Ibadan-Nigeria: Hope Publications.
  • Epictetus, (1942). The Handbook, trans. Nicholas P. White, Indianapolis, Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company.
  • Gyekye, K. (1996). African Cultural Values: An Introduction, Accra: Sankafa Publishing Company.
  • Horton, R. (1974). “African Traditional Thought and Western Science”, in Bryan R. Wilson (ed), Rationality., Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
  • Hospers, J. (1973). An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
  • Houtondji, P (1983). African Philosophy: Myth and Reality, London: Hutchinson University Library for Africa.
  • Jarvie, I. C. (1974). “Explaining Cargo Cults” in Bryan R. Wilson (ed), Rationality, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
  • Masolo, D. A. (1995). African Philosophy in Search of Identity, Nairobi: East Africa: Educational Publishers.
  • Mosley, A. (2004). “Witchcraft, Science and the Paranormal in Contemporary African Philosophy” in Lee M. Brown (ed), African Philosophy: New and Traditional Perspectives, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Omoregbe, J. (1999). A Simplified History of Western Philosophy: Contemporary Philosophy (Vol. 3), Lagos: Joja Press Ltd.
  • Opoka, A. (1978). West African Traditional Religions, Accra: FEP International Ltd.
  • Oyeshile, O. A. (2006). “The Physical and Non-Physical in Yoruba Concept of the Person,” Philosophia De Sellentt, Vol. 35, 2.
  • Ozumba, G. 0. (2004). “{African Traditional Metaphysics,” Quodlibet Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy, Vol. 6, No. 3, July-September, Retrieved Jun. 15, 2005, from http://www.Quodlibet.net.
  • Russell, B. (1980). History of Western Philosophy, London: George Alien and Unwin.
  • Sogolo, G. (1993). Foundations of African Philosophy: A Definitive Analysis of Conceptual Issues in African Thought, Ibadan: Ibadan University Press.
  • Unah, J. I. [2004 (A)]. “Metaphysics as the Foundation of Knowledge,” in Jim I. Unah (ed), Metaphysics, Phenomenology and African Philosophy, Lagos: FADEC Publishers.
  • Unah, J. I. [2004 (B)]. “The Nature of African Metaphysics” in Jim I. Unah (ed), Metaphysics, Phenomenology and African Philosophy, Lagos: FADEC Publishers.
  • Unah, J. I. (2006). Even Nothing is Something (Inaugural Lecture Series), Lagos: University of Lagos Press.
  • Wiredu, K. (1995). Conceptual Decolonisation in African Philosophy with Introduction by Olusegun Oladipo, Ibadan: Hope Publication.
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Onos Godwin Idjakpo This is me

Publication Date April 30, 2017
Submission Date April 23, 2017
Published in Issue Year 2017 Issue: 28

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APA Idjakpo, O. G. (2017). The Cognitive Significance of African Traditional Metaphysics. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi(28), 43-54. https://doi.org/10.20981/kaygi.307939
AMA Idjakpo OG. The Cognitive Significance of African Traditional Metaphysics. Kaygı. April 2017;(28):43-54. doi:10.20981/kaygi.307939
Chicago Idjakpo, Onos Godwin. “The Cognitive Significance of African Traditional Metaphysics”. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi, no. 28 (April 2017): 43-54. https://doi.org/10.20981/kaygi.307939.
EndNote Idjakpo OG (April 1, 2017) The Cognitive Significance of African Traditional Metaphysics. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi 28 43–54.
IEEE O. G. Idjakpo, “The Cognitive Significance of African Traditional Metaphysics”, Kaygı, no. 28, pp. 43–54, April 2017, doi: 10.20981/kaygi.307939.
ISNAD Idjakpo, Onos Godwin. “The Cognitive Significance of African Traditional Metaphysics”. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi 28 (April 2017), 43-54. https://doi.org/10.20981/kaygi.307939.
JAMA Idjakpo OG. The Cognitive Significance of African Traditional Metaphysics. Kaygı. 2017;:43–54.
MLA Idjakpo, Onos Godwin. “The Cognitive Significance of African Traditional Metaphysics”. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi, no. 28, 2017, pp. 43-54, doi:10.20981/kaygi.307939.
Vancouver Idjakpo OG. The Cognitive Significance of African Traditional Metaphysics. Kaygı. 2017(28):43-54.

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