PHILOSOPHY OF ESSENCE, IBUANYIDANDA AND AYATUTU ONTOLOGY: SEEKING THE WHOLE FROM THE UNITS
Abstract It has been argued that Aristotle’s Philosophy of Essence is linked to the crisis of relationship and global disorder. In politics, economy and religion, his theory of substance and accidents has been argued as a bivalent metaphysics that draws a line between what is and what is not. This paper argues that, this thesis has wider implication not only in metaphysics but also in all the sciences of human relations because the same line runs through race, faith, gender and ethnicity, ...
ENDOGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND SUSTAINABLE AFRICAN AGRO-ECOLOGICAL HERITAGE RESOURCE
Abstract: In Africa, the human person is the supreme force, the most powerful and dominant among all created beings. While this decreed power makes the lower beings subservient to humanity, it is only intended to be a source of harmony in the advancement of the hospitality and the joy of the human species. Today however, the traditional lifestyles of Africans are threatened with virtual extinction by insensitive development over which the indigenous peoples have no participation. Africa has n...