The Method and Principles of Complementary
Reflection in and beyond African Philosophy
by
Pages: 533
First
published: July-2004 Publisher: Calabar University Press University Press
Republished: 2005 by LIT Verlag
Publishers, Münster Germany
ISBN 3-8258-8578-x
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Questions relating to types of philosophical traditions
within African philosophy can be very decisive for any idea of African
philosophy. In this strikingly novel approach to African Philosophy, the author
explores a complementary philosophical trend that goes back to those he calls anonymous
traditional African philosophers.
Based on their thoughts, the author articulates a distinctive variant of
the principles, method and imperative of complementarity (Ibu anyi danda)
around which he builds his system. He anchors his reflection on such ambient concepts as the
joy of being (jide k’ iji), fragmentation, wholeness, future reference and
missing link. He shows how through consistent practical application of
these concepts the mind can be guided towards the attainment of, what he calls,
the experience of transcendent complementary unity of consciousness.
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