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Abhored but Necessary: A Relational Interrogation of Zaman Lafia (Peaceful Living) and the Evil of the Death Penalty in the Traditional Hausa Belief System 可憎而又必要:传统豪萨信仰体系中“安生”与死刑之恶的关系拷问
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.6
Zubairu Lawal Bambale
In Hausa worldview, Peaceful living (Zaman Lafiya) is conceived as the chief goal of life. Zaman Lafiya is that which determines goodness or badness of actions and practices. Everything, including morality, life, death and the afterlife is construed as being good or bad with reference to Zaman Lafiya. So, for instance, no matter the gravity of one’s wrongful conducts, it is not justified to punish him, except when punishing him does contribute to the consolidation/realization/attainment of Zaman Lafiya. This paper investigates the Hausa culture and belief system, especially the aspect of punishment alongside the actions that are thought of as being grave to warrant evil punishment such as the death penalty. With the aid of some Hausa proverbs and the African notion of relationality, it would demonstrate how a conversation of metaphysical nature is sparked among such realities/constructs as morality, life, evil, death and the afterlife. It will also show how living an ethical life entails acting in a manner that consolidates communal or relational existence as framework for Zaman Lafiya.
在豪萨的世界观中,和平生活(Zaman Lafiya)被认为是生活的主要目标。Zaman Lafiya是决定行为和实践好坏的因素。每件事,包括道德、生命、死亡和来世,都与Zaman Lafiya有关,被解释为好或坏。所以,举例来说,无论一个人的不法行为有多严重,都没有理由惩罚他,除非惩罚他确实有助于巩固/实现/达到Zaman Lafiya。本文研究了豪萨文化和信仰体系,特别是惩罚方面,以及被认为是严重的行为,以保证邪恶的惩罚,如死刑。在一些豪萨谚语和非洲关系概念的帮助下,它将展示如何在诸如道德,生命,邪恶,死亡和来世等现实/结构中引发形而上学本质的对话。它还将展示如何过一种道德的生活需要以一种方式行动,以巩固社区或关系存在作为扎曼拉菲亚的框架。
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An Argument for the Non-Existence of the Devil in African Traditional Religions 非洲传统宗教中魔鬼不存在的论证
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.5
E. Ofuasia
In this essay, I will argue that the discourse over the existence of the Devil/Satan has no place among the religious cultures in sub-Saharan Africa. This may be contrasted with the numerous efforts in the dominant philosophy of religion tradition in the Anglo-American sphere, where efforts toward the establishing grounds for the existence of God have occupied and commanded so much attention. On the other hand, it seems to have been taken for granted that Devil, the One who is antagonistic of God, among the Abrahamic monotheisms, is assumed to exist and does not require serious intellectual elaboration. For my aim, I explore the traditional Yorùbá and Igbo religious cultures to foreground that God. In the traditional belief system of these two religious cultures, there is no place to entertain the idea of a necessarily antagonistic entity, popularly called the Devil.Whereas I recognise previous scholarships that have served to show that Èṣù and Ekwensu in each of these religious cultures are not synonymous with Devil in the Abrahamic monotheisms, I move beyond these to establishing the ontological framework which endorses the absence of a Devil, even when evil lingers in the world. If the argument that there is no Devil/Satan in these religious cultures is proved valid, then it is pertinent to tender the origin and persistence of evil in the world. For this task, I explore the process-relational character of Yorùbá and Igbo theology to reinforce my conviction concerning the peoples’ belief in the existence of God in Chukwu and Olódùmarè, the presence of evil in the world, without encountering the philosophical problem of evil.
在这篇文章中,我将论证关于魔鬼/撒旦存在的论述在撒哈拉以南非洲的宗教文化中没有立足之地。这可能与在英美领域占主导地位的宗教传统哲学的众多努力形成对比,在英美领域,为建立上帝存在的理由所做的努力占据并引起了如此多的关注。另一方面,在亚伯拉罕的一神论中,魔鬼,与上帝为敌,似乎被认为是理所当然的存在,不需要认真的智力阐述。为了我的目标,我探索了传统的Yorùbá和伊博宗教文化,以突出上帝。在这两种宗教文化的传统信仰体系中,没有地方去接受必然存在的敌对实体的想法,通常被称为魔鬼。虽然我承认以前的奖学金已经表明Èṣù和Ekwensu在这些宗教文化中都不是亚伯拉罕一神教中的魔鬼的同义词,但我超越了这些,建立了一个本体论框架,支持魔鬼的存在,即使邪恶在世界上徘徊。如果在这些宗教文化中没有魔鬼/撒旦的论点被证明是有效的,那么它就与世界上邪恶的起源和持续有关。为了完成这项任务,我探索了Yorùbá和伊博神学的过程关系特征,以加强我对人们对chuukwu和Olódùmarè中上帝存在的信仰,世界上存在邪恶的信念,而没有遇到邪恶的哲学问题。
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引用次数: 4
What is Sacrifice? Towards a Polythetic Definition with an Emphasis on African and Chinese Religions 什么是牺牲?以非洲和中国宗教为重点的多元定义
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.13
Bony Schachter
This paper asks a simple and yet extremely relevant question for scholars of religion: what is sacrifice? Rejecting monothetic definitions of sacrifice, I argue that the phenomenon must be understood as a polythetic class. In its two first sections, the paper discusses the evidence from African religions and Chinese religions, respectively. The last section is devoted to a comparative exercise through which I highlight the polythetic nature of sacrifice.
本文向宗教学者提出了一个简单而又极其相关的问题:什么是祭祀?我反对牺牲的单一定义,我认为这种现象必须被理解为一个综合的类别。在前两节中,本文分别讨论了来自非洲宗教和中国宗教的证据。最后一部分致力于一个比较练习,通过它我强调了牺牲的综合性质。
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引用次数: 2
Pathways Towards a Global Philosophy of Religion: The Problem of Evil from an Intercultural Perspective 走向全球宗教哲学之路:跨文化视角下的邪恶问题
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.15
Jun Wang, L. Cordeiro‐Rodrigues
In this article, we will make the case for an intercultural philosophy of religion with a special focus on interculturality between Chinese and African philosophies. We will provide an overview of the kind of intercultural philosophy that has already been undertaken between the East and the South and point out that a philosophy of religion has been left out. We will then make the case for a global philosophy of religion approach and why Chinese and African philosophies of religion should engage in philosophical interchanges. We will then highlight some directions for carrying out such a philosophy and explain why the problem of evil may be better addressed from an intercultural perspective.
在这篇文章中,我们将对跨文化宗教哲学进行论证,特别关注中国和非洲哲学之间的跨文化。我们将概述已经在东方和南方之间开展的那种跨文化哲学,并指出宗教哲学被遗漏了。然后,我们将提出一种全球宗教哲学方法,以及为什么中国和非洲的宗教哲学应该进行哲学交流。然后,我们将强调实施这种哲学的一些方向,并解释为什么从跨文化的角度来解决邪恶的问题可能会更好。
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引用次数: 6
African Philosophy of Religion from a Global Perspective: Deities, Ancestors, Relationality and the Problem of Evil 全球视野下的非洲宗教哲学:神、祖先、关系与恶的问题
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-08 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.1
L. Cordeiro‐Rodrigues, J. Chimakonam
In this essay, we explore what the African Philosophy of Religion would look like from both a mono-disciplinary and comparative perspectives. To do this, a few concepts such as Gods, ancestorhood, relationality, and the problem of evil that appear in the essays in this special issue will be highlighted. Our aim here is not to provide a lengthy and rigorous analysis of the field of African Philosophy of Religion or even some of its main concepts, but to offer a platform for continuing discussion and development of the field.
在这篇文章中,我们从单一学科和比较的角度探讨了非洲宗教哲学的样子。为了做到这一点,一些概念,如神,祖先,关系,和邪恶的问题,出现在这个特刊的文章将突出。我们在这里的目的不是对非洲宗教哲学领域或其主要概念进行冗长而严格的分析,而是为该领域的持续讨论和发展提供一个平台。
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Inclusiveness, Affordability, Cultural Identity, and Ethical Orientation 第四次工业革命:包容性、可负担性、文化认同和伦理取向
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v10i3.5
R. M. Oduor
Discussions on the impact and future directions of technology often proceed from an empirical point of view that seems to presume that the ebb and flow of technological developments is beyond the control of humankind, so that all that humanity can do is adjust to it. However, such an approach easily neglects several crucial normative considerations that could enhance the standing of individual human beings and whole communities as rational users of technology rather than its slaves. Besides, more often than not, technological products are designed in ways that neglect the needs of persons with disabilities, thereby perpetuating their exclusion from society. Consequently, this article proposes four normative considerations to guide the initiatives of African societies in their deployment of the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, namely, inclusiveness to meet the needs of all human beings, affordability to bridge the digital divide, respect for cultural identity to guard against cultural imperialism, and an ethical orientation as the over-arching guide to building a truly human society.
关于技术的影响和未来方向的讨论往往从经验主义的观点出发,这种观点似乎假定技术发展的潮起潮落超出了人类的控制,因此人类所能做的就是适应它。然而,这种方法很容易忽视几个关键的规范性考虑,这些考虑可以提高个人和整个社区作为技术的理性用户而不是奴隶的地位。此外,技术产品的设计往往忽视了残疾人的需要,从而使他们长期被排斥在社会之外。因此,本文提出了四个规范性考虑,以指导非洲社会在部署第四次工业革命技术时的举措,即,满足所有人类需求的包容性,弥合数字鸿沟的可负担性,对文化认同的尊重以防范文化帝国主义,以及作为建设真正人类社会的总体指导的道德取向。
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引用次数: 1
Indiscipline as Method: From Telescopes to Ventilators in Times of Covid 无纪律作为方法:从望远镜到新冠肺炎时代的呼吸机
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v10i3.6
I. Turner, Siri Lamoureaux, J. Merron
There is no unproblematic way to study things as “African”, yet an epistemologically situated approach based on concrete technological projects situated in Africa and their social and political implications offers an important account of the intersection of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and African Studies. We explore this perspective through the notion of “indiscipline” using the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project (SKA) based in South Africa as a case study through which to observe “indiscipline” as a methodological approach to technoscience at work. Indiscipline helps frame the socio-technical (by)products of astrophysics and engineering, and we present the production of ventilators for COVID-19 patients as an example of how the design of mega-science projects can become entangled with the dynamic concerns of society. Our conclusion elaborates on the politics of large technological systems, opening up a conversation on the intersection of science and society in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in African settings, using the template of experiences with the SKA and the National Ventilator Project in South Africa.
将事物作为“非洲”来研究是没有问题的,然而,基于位于非洲的具体技术项目及其社会和政治影响的认识论定位方法为第四次工业革命和非洲研究的交集提供了重要的解释。我们以南非的平方公里阵列射电望远镜项目(SKA)为例,通过“无纪律”的概念来探索这一观点,通过该项目观察“无纪律”作为工作中技术科学的方法论方法。无纪律有助于构建天体物理学和工程学的社会技术(副产品)产品,我们以COVID-19患者呼吸机的生产为例,说明大型科学项目的设计如何与社会动态问题纠缠在一起。我们的结论详细阐述了大型技术系统的政治,利用SKA和南非国家呼吸机项目的经验模板,在非洲第四次工业革命的背景下,开启了关于科学与社会交集的对话。
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Ideating African Indigenous Knowledge Systems for Africa’s Participation in the 4IR: From Content Framework to Process Formation 为非洲参与第四次工业革命构想非洲本土知识体系:从内容框架到过程形成
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v10i3.3
A. A. Oyekunle
With its envisioned benefits of increased productivity, enhanced decision making with digital-based tools, qualitative and efficient processes, improved life expectancy rate, etc., the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is a desideratum for contemporary society. The need to prioritize skills and knowledge needed for the participation of Africa in the 4IR thus becomes imperative. This paper argues for indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) as a possible approach to enhance African participation in the 4IR. Consequently, the paper examines the methodical perspectives that would be appropriate for framing African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) as a tool for advancing science and technology. It argues for the process form of ideating IKS against the content forms implicit in the various views on IKS. It is concluded that the process form of ideating IKS – which essentially focuses on the critical analysis of the systematic formations and development of IKS – unearths the epistemological basis for scientific postulations and technological advancement in Africa.
第四次工业革命(4IR)带来了生产力的提高、基于数字工具的决策能力的增强、定性和高效的流程、预期寿命的提高等预期好处,是当代社会的愿望。因此,必须优先考虑非洲参与第四次工业革命所需的技能和知识。本文认为本土知识系统(IKS)是提高非洲参与第四次工业革命的可能途径。因此,这篇论文考察了适合将非洲土著知识系统(AIKS)构建为推进科学技术的工具的方法观点。它论证了构建IKS的过程形式,而不是关于IKS的各种观点所隐含的内容形式。本文的结论是,IKS构想的过程形式——本质上侧重于对IKS的系统形成和发展的批判性分析——揭示了非洲科学假设和技术进步的认识论基础。
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Introduction: The crisis of African Studies and Philosophy in the epoch of The Fourth Industrial Revolution 引言:第四次工业革命时代的非洲研究与哲学危机
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v10i3.1
M. Lamola
The very claim of the historical instance of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is increasingly being subjected to critical interrogation from a variety of cultural and ideological perspectives. From an Afrocentric theory of history, this questioning of the ontology of the 4IR is sharpened by Africa’s experience of the claimed progressive mutation of global industrial progress from the “first” to this “fourth” revolution. Africa experienced the first industrial revolution as a European revolution in the exploitation of her natural and human resources, as well as the despoliation of her cultural-epistemic sovereignty. The challenge to fully engage in the theorisation of this 4IR, given the overwhelming and inexorable effects of its digital technologies on the personhood, sociality and geopolitical state of Africa has exposed the critical need for a set of rigorous Africanist analytical tools and epistemological approaches capable of guiding Africa’s appropriation of this techno-social revolution. This essay introduces the collection of research papers that have been selected for their endeavour to meet this challenge. It is highlighted that all of them move from a unique approach that asserts that technological progress is historical-cultural and socially embedded. Some of them address the question of the historico-ontological status of the 4IR innovatively with original African methodological tools, while others demonstrate how an African epistemology can be applied to issues such a digital virtual communities and robotics. This contribution to the bourgeoning field of African Philosophy of Technology is admired as work in progress.
第四次工业革命(4IR)的历史实例正日益受到来自各种文化和意识形态角度的批判性质疑。从一种以非洲为中心的历史理论来看,这种对第四次工业革命本体论的质疑,因非洲经历了所谓的全球工业进步从“第一次”到“第四次”革命的渐进突变而变得更加尖锐。非洲经历了第一次工业革命,就像欧洲革命一样,对其自然和人力资源的剥削,以及对其文化知识主权的掠夺。考虑到数字技术对非洲的人格、社会和地缘政治状态的压倒性和不可阻挡的影响,充分参与第四次工业革命理论化的挑战暴露了对一套严格的非洲分析工具和认识论方法的迫切需要,这些工具和认识论方法能够指导非洲对这场技术社会革命的利用。这篇文章介绍了研究论文的集合,已经选择了他们的努力,以满足这一挑战。值得强调的是,它们都是从一种独特的方法出发的,这种方法断言技术进步是历史文化和社会根深蒂固的。他们中的一些人用独创的非洲方法论工具创新地解决了第四次工业革命的历史本体论地位问题,而另一些人则展示了如何将非洲认识论应用于数字虚拟社区和机器人等问题。这种对非洲技术哲学这一新兴领域的贡献被认为是正在进行中的工作。
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Ntu’ologico-Agnostic Reflections on the Fourth Industrial Revolution Premise 对第四次工业革命前提的逻辑-不可知论思考
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v10i3.2
Ferdinand Mutaawe Kasozi
This paper proposes an ntu’ologically analytical questioning of the contentious Fourth Industrial Revolution phenomenon, as it suggests that an industrial revolution ought to be appreciated in causation or causality terms. The cause of an industrial revolution is required to comprise ‘adequacy quality causing interactions’ among entities of specific ntu categories. These interactions bring into being nine basic ntu’ological adequacy qualities or industrial revolution criteria. For that reason, nine selected modes of interaction, called in this paper, ntu’ological interactions forms, guide the analytical questioning of the possible existence of a Fourth Industrial Revolution. The aforementioned nine criteria are incontestable in respect of the First, Second and Third Industrial Revolutions. This paper, however, takes the agnostic position that: the Fourth Industrial Revolution may exist, but we cannot prove this with theoretical reason.
本文对有争议的第四次工业革命现象提出了一个非科学的分析问题,因为它表明工业革命应该在因果关系或因果关系方面得到评价。工业革命的原因需要包含特定ntu类别实体之间的“充足质量导致相互作用”。这些相互作用形成了九个基本的理论充分性或工业革命标准。出于这个原因,本文选择了九种互动模式(本文称之为“逻辑互动形式”)来指导对第四次工业革命可能存在的分析性质疑。这9条标准在第一次、第二次、第三次产业革命中是不容置疑的。然而,本文采取不可知论的立场:第四次工业革命可能存在,但我们无法用理论推理来证明这一点。
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