CHI: IN SEARCH FOR AN EXPLANATORY PRINCIPLE FOR THE INTERRELATEDNESS OF IGWEBUIKE PHILOSOPHY
Abstract This work is a search for the basis of intersubjectivity in the African worldview conceptualized in Igwebuike philosophy. This piece found the basis of intersubjectivity of the African reality in Chi, which carries a variety of meanings among the Igbo-African people. However, the nuance of Chi that is employed here is that which understands it as the divinity in every huma...
‘IGWEBUIKE’ PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Abstract Contrary to the opinion of some scholars which holds that science is independent of particular worldviews in its presuppositions and method, this paper argues that although the presuppositions of science have no worldview content, science may provide evidence that has bearing on a certain worldview belief. This dependence on a worldview is what gives science some level of political autonomy, that is, some kind of ...
IGWEBUIKE AND LANGUAGE: IN SEARCH OF AN ONTOLOGICAL TOOLBOX FOR IGBO-AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY
Abstract Human beings are by nature enshrined in an inescapable world-hood web called language. As a symbolic construction and human agenda setting in semantic space, language ensures the application of social meaning, control, culture and social knowledge. As a result o...
THE IGBO-AFRICAN KOLA NUT AS A SYMBOLIC MANIFESTATION OF ‘IGWEBUIKE’ PHILOSOPHY
Abstract Among the Igbo of eastern Nigeria, symbols are not only important, but have become indispensable in their daily lives. Several symbols used include: Ofo, which is a symbol of authority; Ogu, the symbol of innocence; Ikenga, a symbol of strength, uprightness, success, integrity and ancestry; Mbari, the symbol of culture and aesthetic...
‘IGWEBUIKE’ AS A CONCEPTUALIZATION OF IGBO-AFRICAN WORLDVIEW
Abstract The relationships in the African universe point to the fact of the dynamics of a personal and universal world, and the reality that the human person is a composition of lived embodiment with the world while at the same time experiencing his/her own body. This interaction between the personal world of the human person and the universal world is possible because, just as the heart of the human...
IGWEBUIKECRACY: THE IGBO-AFRICAN PARTICIPATORY SOCIO-POLITICAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE
Abstract African traditional political systems are often categorized as monarchical or aristocratic, as such, as having no place for democracy. European and African political thinkers see democracy as a system of government that began in Greece and was imported from Europe to Africa. Contrary to this opinion, this piece ar...
IGWEBUIKE AND THE QUESTION OF SUPERIORITY IN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY OF KNOWLEDGE
Abstract A cursory glance at the different developments in the different epochs in the history of philosophy reveals the continuous resurfacing of the problem of superiority in the scientific community of knowledge. In Plato we see an exaltation of the discipline of&nbs...
On the Origin and Principles of Igwebuike Philosophy
Abstract Every philosophical position has an origin and the principles that guide or gives value to the pattern of thought in question. The origin is usually the result of a reaction to a particular circumstance that is either real or conceptual. This work is a response to the question...
THE AMBIGUITIES OF OKOT PBITEK'S DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICAN RELIGION
Abstract A cursory glance reveals that anthropologists, philosophers, historians, colonial masters and missionaries have understood Africa variously. Unfortunately, this understanding has often been in the negative. This has relegated Africa to the background of mere obscurantism, and misled the world into believing that Africans are savages, primitive and reside in a dark continent where they sleep on trees, eat raw fruits and consort with apes. The need to ...
IGWEBUIKE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: A NEW TREND FOR SCIENTIFIC AND WHOLISTIC INVESTIGATION
Abstract The organic and departmental nature of reality calls for a method of research that both respects the organicness and departmentalness of realty. It is in this regard that this work introduces the Igwebuike research methodology, in an attempts at widening the scope of research methodologies. It is an indigenous, first because it has its origin in an African word- Igwebuike which literally means “there is strength in number” but speaks...
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