Plotinus And African Concepts Of Evil

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Plotinus and African Concepts of Evil

Author : Christian Mofor
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039112531
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Plotinus and African Concepts of Evil written by Christian Mofor and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concepts of evil in the world-views of Plotinus and the Nso' people of Cameroon. The author analyzes the theories of the natural structure and social organization of these views of the world. He stresses the importance of comparing Plotinus and African philosophy. The book offers a proper appreciation of fundamental differences, parallels and similarities and seeks to build on shared values and common existential concerns in the world-views of Plotinus and the Nso'. This book highlights the assumption that the world understood in terms of its wider dimensions is not a purposeless conglomerate of phenomena and events that bear no relation to each other, but is rather a structured whole, defined by hierarchy and order.

PLOTINUS Ennead VI.9: On the Good or the One

Author : Stephen Clark
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
ISBN 13 : 173353573X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book PLOTINUS Ennead VI.9: On the Good or the One written by Stephen Clark and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early treatise is placed by Plotinus’ editor at the very end of the Enneads, as the culmination of his thought, matching Plotinus’ own last recorded instruction, “to bring the god in you back to the god in the all.” It is a cosmological sketch, arguing that the being of anything depends on its being unified by its orientation to its own good, and so also the being of Everything, the All. The One, or the Good, is at once the goal of all things both individually and collectively, and also the transcendent source of all that we experience, mediated through an intelligible order. But it is also, and perhaps more importantly, intended as a guide to the proper education and discipline of our own motives and experience. We are encouraged to put aside immediate sensory data, egoistic prejudice and sensual impulse, first to grasp at least a little of the intelligible order within which we all live, and at last to purge even those last intellectual attachments and experience what cannot be adequately described: the unity of being.

Contemporary Development Ethics from an African Perspective

Author : Beatrice Okyere-Manu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031328981
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Development Ethics from an African Perspective by : Beatrice Okyere-Manu

Download or read book Contemporary Development Ethics from an African Perspective written by Beatrice Okyere-Manu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers fresh academic insights, reflections, questions, issues, and approaches to development ethics, taking into account, African values and ethics. Development ethics is an area of applied ethics that examines the moral issues involved in global, social, and economic transformation. While it is a relatively new discipline, there have been numerous scholarly publications on it from Western perspectives. However, only a few studies that focused on development ethics from the African perspective. To address this gap, the book seeks to answer critical questions such as "What does development mean to Africans?", "How can we measure development?", "Who gets to decide?", and "What constitutes just development in Africa?" With contributions from African scholars from diverse backgrounds, the book covers various development themes such as Theories and approaches to development ethics in Africa, Environmental Ethics and African Development, Ethics, Politics and African Development, Migration and African development, Gender, Ethics and Socio-economic Development in Africa, Education, Ethics and African development. It is an essential resource for researchers, lecturers, and students interested in political philosophy and African culture studies.

Normative Justification of a Global Ethic

Author : Uchenna B. Okeja
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739176900
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Normative Justification of a Global Ethic by : Uchenna B. Okeja

Download or read book Normative Justification of a Global Ethic written by Uchenna B. Okeja and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is the normativity of global ethic. Over the years, different cultures and civilizations have been brought closer than never before by globalization. This trend has both its negative and positive dimensions. Overall, the main problem of this present trend of societal organization and human interaction called globalization is a moral issue, namely, the question: how should we treat one another? Okeja's global ethic seeks to answer this question. It underscores that we should treat one another in our current age of globalization in accordance with the Golden Rule principle. The suggestion of this ethic is therefore that we should not treat others the way we would not want to be treated. This sounds simple enough. The problem, however, is that it is not exactly clear what this principle of moral conduct would suggest in both simple and complex moral situations. Most importantly, it is not clear why it is reasonable to treat people the way we would not want to be treated. Why, in other words, should we act in accordance with the Golden Rule principle? What is the justification of the demand the Golden Rule makes on us? This book answers these and other questions about the normative plausibility of the Golden Rule, and thus global ethic, from the comparative perspective of ethics in African philosophy. It analyzes three stages of the possible normative justification of the moral imperative of global ethic and proposes a deliberative form of justification.

There Once Was a Serpent

Author : Richard Kieckhefer
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846942969
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book There Once Was a Serpent written by Richard Kieckhefer and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a concise history of Christian theology based on a mysteriously discovered set of seventy-four limericks. Readers who already know the history of theology will read about it from an unfamiliar perspective ? and beginners will learn the basics in an accessible form. The limericks range from Gnostic theology through to the Reformation, and on to Karl Barth and Paul Tillich. If all of this seems unfamiliar, the accompanying text should help sort it all out.

Plato Revived

Author : Filip Karfík
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110324660
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Plato Revived written by Filip Karfík and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays compiled in this volume individually address the varied forms in which the revival of Platonism manifested itself in ancient philosophy. It pays special attention to the issues of unity and beauty, the mind and knowledge, the soul and the body, virtue and happiness, and additionally considers the political and religious dimensions of Platonic thought. Starting from Plato and Aristotle, the studies examine the multiple transformational forms of Platonism, including the Neo-Platonists – Plotinus, Porphyrios, Iamblichus, Themistius, Proclus, and Marinus – along with Christian thinkers such as St. Augustine, Boethius, and Dionysus the Areopagite. The authors who have contributed to this volume make multiple references to the scholarly work of Dominic J. O’Meara. Their further refinement of O’Meara’s approach particularly casts a new light on Late-Platonic ethics. The essays in this collection also contribute to scholarly research about the multiple inter-relationships among the Platonists themselves and between Platonists and philosophers from other schools. Taken as a whole, this book reveals the full breadth of potential in the revival and transformation of ancient Platonism.

Coping with Evil in Religion and Culture

Author : Lourens Minnema
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042023376
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Coping with Evil in Religion and Culture written by Lourens Minnema and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kwabena ASAMOAH-GYADU: Conquering Satan, Demons, Principalities, and Powers: Ghanaian Traditional and Christian Perspectives on Religion, Evil,

Philosophy of Religion

Author : Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546297472
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Religion written by Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work focuses on the major inquiries in philosophy of religion. This work is unique in its own way, in the sense that it introduces something new to the corpus of literature that is often referred to as philosophy of religion. It introduces themes in African philosophy of religion, which is an area not often referred to in African philosophy, let alone in textbooks in philosophy of religion. As this work opens a new aperture in the study of the philosophy of religion, it is hoped that it would generate further interest in the study of African philosophy of religion.

Everyday Evils

Author : Coline Covington
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317593049
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Evils written by Coline Covington and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday Evils takes a psychoanalytic look at the evils committed by "ordinary" people in different contexts – from the Nazi concentration camps to Stockholm Syndrome to the atrocities publicized by Islamic State – and presents new perspectives on how such evil deeds come about as well as the extreme ways in which we deny the existence of evil. Concepts of group behaviour, morality, trauma and forgiveness are reconsidered within a multi-disciplinary framework. The psychodynamics of dissociation, and the capacity to witness evil acts while participating in them, raise questions about the origin of morality, and about the role of the observing ego in maintaining psychic equilibrium. Coline Covington examines how we demonize the "other" and how violent actions become normalized within communities, such as during the Rwandan genocide and Polish pogroms. The recent attraction of the millenarian theocracy of the Islamic State also highlights our fascination with violence and death. Covington emphasizes that evil comes about through a variety of causes and is highly contextual. It is our capacity to acknowledge the evils we live with, witness and commit that is vital to how we manage and respond to violence within ourselves and others and in mitigating our innate destructiveness. In conclusion, the book addresses how individuals and societies come to terms with evil, along with the problematic concept of forgiveness and the restoration of good. Everyday Evils blends psychoanalytic concepts together with the disciplines of sociology, history, anthropology, philosophy, theology and studies of violence in order to develop a richer, deeper and more comprehensive understanding of evil. Intending to make the unthinkable thinkable, this book will appeal to scholars from across those disciplines, as well as psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and anyone who has ever asked the question: "How could anyone do something like that?"

Introducing Religion

Author : Robert Ellwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315507196
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Introducing Religion written by Robert Ellwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Religion, 4/e explores the different ways of looking at religion in the twenty-first century. A broad overview to religious studies as a discipline introduces students to the various subjects of religion. Introducing Religion teaches readers how to think in academic religious studies and its main areas, including: sociology of religion, psychology of religion, history of religion, religion and art, ethics, and more. The fourth edition has been expanded with new chapters exploring topics of contemporary interest: myth, spiritual paths, religion and popular culture, religion in the computer age, religion and war. Contemporary topics engage today’s students, relating the topics to the changing world around them.

The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521476768
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus written by Lloyd P. Gerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' 'Neoplatonism'.

West African Religion

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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The Routledge Handbook of African Theology

Author : Elias Kifon Bongmba
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351607448
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of African Theology by : Elias Kifon Bongmba

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of African Theology written by Elias Kifon Bongmba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology has a rich tradition across the African continent, and has taken myriad directions since Christianity first arrived on its shores. This handbook charts both historical developments and contemporary issues in the formation and application of theologies across the member countries of the African Union. Written by a panel of expert international contributors, chapters firstly cover the various methodologies needed to carry out such a survey. Various theological movements and themes are then discussed, as well as biblical and doctrinal issues pertinent to African theology. Subjects addressed include: • Orality and theology • Indigenous religions and theology • Patristics • Pentecostalism • Liberation theology • Black theology • Social justice • Sexuality and theology • Environmental theology • Christology • Eschatology • The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament The Routledge Handbook of African Theology is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the theological landscape of Africa. As such, it will be a hugely useful volume to any scholar interested in African religious dynamics, as well as academics of Theology or Biblical Studies in an African context.

Exposing the Evil Deeds of Darkness

Author : Feumba Samen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781533306845
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Exposing the Evil Deeds of Darkness written by Feumba Samen and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposing the Evil Deeds of Darkness explores an area of missions long underreported and overlooked--witchcraft and its pervasive influence on Christianity in Africa. Whereas missionaries may have been aware of its existence, they were unprepared by their training to deal with it. Thus witchcraft was relegated to the category of superstition. This allowed the evil practices to freely penetrate Christian lives, weakening their testimony and keeping them from a true awareness of God's rich promises to His children. This book not only provides the history of witchcraft since Christianity was introduced into Africa, it reveals a rich biblical approach on how Christians can be taught to withstand the diabolical influences which surround them daily. Samen's prayer is that this book will educate and inspire changes in how much of African Christianity is perceived and practiced.

Origins of American Transcendentalism

Author : Nathaniel Kaplan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Origins of American Transcendentalism written by Nathaniel Kaplan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philosophy

Author : Samuel Enoch Stumpf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy written by Samuel Enoch Stumpf and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Public Morality and the Culture Wars

Author : Bryan Fanning
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1804557242
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Public Morality and the Culture Wars written by Bryan Fanning and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Morality and the Culture Wars: The Triple Divide is an academically rigorous and strictly non-polemical analysis of the intellectual and ideological conflicts at the heart of the ‘culture wars’.