BELONGINGNESS: AN AFRICAN METAPHYSICS OF TO BE A PANTALEONINE APPROACH

Abstract

Philosophical traditions, as the institutions of critical reasoning, within the historical appreciation of philosophy, have given rise to many critical and conceptual nuances of philosophy as a human heritage. Western philosophical tradition gave us the concept of being as that which is, while African philosophical tradition gave rise to the concept of belongingness as the African Metaphysics of to be. Being and Belongingness in actual critical sense, portray concrete idea and modality of being. Using the method of hermeneutics, the researcher appreciatively finds out of that being as that which is simply belongs. Belongingness, therefore, remains the redefinition of the Western philosophical concept of being in African philosophical enterprise. Hence, belongingness is the African Metaphysics of To Be. Keywords: Being. belongingness, Africa, philosophical traditions