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AEGIS European Conference on African Studies
11 - 14 July 2007
African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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The logic and epistemology of life-force in African philosophy
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9. Setting a New Agenda for African Studies
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| Paper ID | 116 |
| Author(s) |
Okoro, Chiedozie
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| Abstract | Life-force is a familiar topic in physics, hermeneutic phenomenology,Eastern philosophy and of course African philosophy; but the metaphysics, logic and epistemology of life-force are not exactly the same in all of these tradiditions. Consequently, this essay aims at making a pure philosophical analysis of, principally, the logic and epistemology of life-force in the African tradition. We intend to explore the weak and strong points of the life-force principle in African tradition in order to decipher a consistent methodological orientation that could be relevant to the vocations of science, politics and economy. |
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