Contemporary African Metaphysical Thought
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| Riassunto: | XIV, 276 p. text |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2024.
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| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2024. |
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| Accesso online: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73963-7 |
| Natura: | Elettronico Libro |
Sommario:
- Part 1. The Nature of Fundamental Reality
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fundamental Reality in African Metaphysical Thought
- 3. On the Distortion of Being in African Ontology
- 4. Panentheism and Emmanuel Ofuasia’s Afro-Process Metaphysics
- 5. Ìwà as Ontological Duality: A Prolegomena to an African Version of Event Metaphysics
- 6. The Structure of Relational-Field Metaphysics
- 7. Sophie Bọsẹdé Olúwọlé on Yoruba Philosophy, Knowing, Not-Knowing and the Pain of Letting Go
- Part II. On God, Evil, and Causality
- 8. The Vitalistic Universe and the Existence of God
- 9. The Axiology of the African Limited-God
- 10. Richard Swinburne and Kwasi Wiredu on God and (Moral) Evil
- 11. The Antinomy of Relation: An Understanding of Causation and the Question of Destiny
- Part III. Applied Metaphysics: African Medicine and Afro-communitarianism
- 12. Metaphysical Issues in African Philosophy of Medicine
- 13. Some Reflections on Binary Dualism, Complementarity and Afro-communitarianism.