Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics
The Idea of Predeterministic Historicity
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Aribiah David Attoe
Philosophy
Philosophy of Religion
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Conclusion
The conclusion provides a concise recap of the views provided in the book. The conclusion also teases some areas of future research that may be relevant in the light of the ideas expressed in the book. These i...
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Death in Our Predeterministic World
The idea of predeterministic historicity (PDH) would no doubt challenge our ideas about the value of life, or more importantly, our ideas about what it means to die. In a materialistic and deterministic world ...
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Introduction
In this chapter, I provide a general overview of the African metaphysical landscape and offer a brief description of the problems I identify with the current trajectory of African metaphysical discourse. I, th...
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Determinism and the Death of Free Will
In this chapter, I tackle the implications of the deterministic outlook that the idea of predeterministic historicity (PDH) encapsulates. In it, I provide arguments to some of the natural and important argumen...
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Existence and the Thing We Call God
In this chapter, I examine, more specifically, the idea of existence, as well as the notion of God within the context of PDH. In it, I identify God (at the very least) as a regressively eternal and material en...
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From Causality to Predeterministic-Historicity (PDH)
In this chapter, I reconceptualize the idea of causality in a way that fits into the system of predeterministic historicity (PDH) that I am building. In this chapter, I reflect on the dependence on spiritualit...
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Being, in Singular Complementarity
In this chapter, I discuss the nature of being in the new metaphysical framework that I am proposing. I show precisely why the common narrative of being as bifurcated—in the Western Aristotelian sense and the ...
