METAPHYSICAL DUALISM IN EBOH: A PHILOSOPHICAL EXPOSÉ

Abstract

Africa has come of age in critical studies. As a continent, Africa has developed various great minds in various fields. Writing about Marie Pauline Eboh's philosophy of dualism reveals Africa's greatness in the academic field. Eboh did not set out to write about metaphysical dualism but addressed various aspects of the human life both physically and spiritually. She had written extensively on the existence of earthly life and the reality of life beyond the physical world through the existence of the soul. Human beings live and die to live again. As such, in Eboh's philosophy, life does not end on earth but continues to eternity. She highlighted the African traditional belief of human existence and the survival of the soul after death and held that it takes the virtuous life to attain eternal rest after death. The study is an exposition of Eboh's position on the metaphysical existence of the human person and cautions them against the merits and demerits of eternity. It adopted a descriptive analysis method and concluded that Eboh's position on human existence is plausible, although not without some weaknesses. It recommends that Eboh's philosophy on metaphysical dualism should be received and more emphasis should be placed on her position, to assist young scholars to understand the metaphysical foundation of their existence.