Chris Ijiomah

Harmonious Monism (eBook, ePUB)

A Philosophical Logic of Explanation for Ontological Issues in Supernaturalism in African Thought.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a reaction against young Levy Bruhl's position that the world's (African) thought is pre- logical. Systematically therefore it exposes first the influence of positivism and two valued Logic on Bruhl which made him to be anti- spiritualism and second interpreted African thought from two- valued logic point of view. This wrong interpretational tool resulted to his ''onslaught on African thought'' which is the subject of the book's reaction. This book 's position is that every interpretation stems from a particular logic and this logic needs to evolve from the same ontological context with the phenomenon that is to be interpreted. The implication of this is that, there is a bio conditional structural relationship between every logic and its cultural ontology. The book investigates this assertion using prevalent (2vl) of the West and the prevalent ontology of the the same culture. The investigation proved positive. On the above discovery the book developed the theory of structural analogy and logical functionalism (SAALF) as a justification for the derivation of a prevalent trinitarian logic from African trinitarian prevalent ontology. From this theoretical standpoint, the book in agreement with some twentieth century analytic logicians defines logic as a science of relation between realities from which principles of argumentation and reasoning can be developed. This book goes ahead to use this logic to explain some African phenomena such as the concept of African healing oath-taking and education. For the benefit of doubt the book differentiates between Harmonious monism and Hermeneutics as an answer to some questions of the critics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514472842
• Artikelnr.: 52586632

Autorenporträt

The author is born in Uzuakoli in Bende local government of Abia State of Nigeria. He holds a B.A degree 2nd class upper in philosophy from Urban University of Rome. He came to the United States of America and acquired another first degree and M.A from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green Kentucky. In Nigeria he attained a PhD degree in philosophy of mathematics of Gotttlob Frege. His publications in and outside Africa earned him professorship in logic, philosophy of mathematics and African philosophy. He is a contextualist in philosophy and has been consistent about his inclination in his numerous journal articles and books. He is happily married to Evangelist Evelyn Ijiomah (Mrs) and is blessed with four wonderful children and four exciting grandchildren. His hobby includes listening to gospel music and watching African films. He is of a non-denominational orientation in Christianity.