IGWEBUIKE: AN AFRICAN COMPLEMENTARY PHILOSOPHICAL FRAMEWORK
Proceedings of an online Colloquium on Igwebuike Philosophy held from 20th January-20th July 2020
EDITOR
Ikechukwu Anthony KANU
First Published in 2020
A Publication of Igwebuike Research Institute (IRI)
COPYRIGHT © 2020 by The Igwebuike Research Institute (IRI)
ISBN: 978-978-985-904-7
INTRODUCTION
Igwebuike is essentially a transcendent complementary comprehensive systematic effort to understand the structure and dynamics of reality ultimately for the purpose of giving honest answers to fundamental questions or opinions to questions that arise within the arena of asking questions and questioning answers, selfless enlightenment and furthering of human happiness. In this search for truth, Igwebuike, within an integrated systematic framework, strives beyond all forms of particularities, peculiarities, paradoxes and contradictions and espouses the path of complementation, therefore, showing how realities can relate to one another in a mutually harmonized nonabsolutistic mode.
This piece studies the dimensions of Igwebuike, which include its place within the theater of being, and its literal and linguistic meanings. It also searches for the basis of inter-subjectivity in the African worldview conceptualized in Igwebuike philosophy, and this it locates in Chi. The next two papers study aspects of Plutarch’s ethical-political thought in comparison with the Igwebuike philosophy and employed Igwebuike as an ontological toolbox that forms the trajectory system of the Igbo-African world. There are further inquiries on the relationship between Igwebuike and the liberation and ethics.
There is also a study of the relationship between Igwebuike ideology and the “I – Thou” philosophy of Martin Buber, which the author avers are both geared towards an authentic human existence. It further inquires into the possibility of the Igwebuike principle of complementarity advancing interreligious dialogue and modern efforts towards conflict resolution. There is also a discourse on the relationship between Igwebuike as a philosophy and leadership.
This piece remains a major contribution to the corpus of literature on Igwebuike philosophy. I, therefore, introduce this piece to all lovers of African philosophy, religion and culture.
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