Affiliation:
1. University of Johannesburg
2. University of Zimbabwe and University of Pretoria
Abstract
Abstract
The notion of belongingness in African philosophy has its most profound expression in Pantaleon Iroegbu’s uwa ontology, which stipulates that being is that which exists in the community, or, as he puts it, “To be is to belong.” The main contention of this article is that Jonathan O. Chimakonam’s ezumezu logic is fully equipped to explain this ontology of belongingness. This is due to the trivalent and dynamic nature of this African culture–inspired logic, which adequately captures the African conception of reality. According to this conception, individual entities continue to coexist or to belong in the community without losing their respective identities.
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Reference49 articles.
1. Abakedi, D. E., and E. K. Iwuagwu. 2023. “Logical Realism and Ezumezu Logic.” FilosofiaTheoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 11, no. 2: 61–74.
2. Akesson, Sam K. 1965. “The Akan Concept of Soul.” African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society 63, no. 157: 280–91.
3. Ani, Amara Esther. 2021. “The Methodological Significance of Chimakonam’s Ezumezu Logic.” Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 8, no. 2: 85–95.
4. Asouzu, Innocent I. 2004. The Method and Principles of Complementary Reflection in and beyond African Philosophy. Calabar: University of Calabar Press.
5. ________. 2007a. Ibuanyidanda: New Complementary Ontology, beyond World Immanentism, Ethnocentric Reduction and Imposition. London: Transaction.