This week’s slidesHAP 05 — Òrìṣà Ontology
This week’s slidesHAP 05b — Ontology of Medicine: Western, Yorùbá, Islamic
This week’s slidesHAP 05c — Essay Writing
This week’s slidesHAP 05d — Examination One Review
This week’s slidesHAP 05e — Practice Exam
Read with the three histories in view. For each reading ask: what is the fact and its evidence (History 1); what theory turns the evidence into support (History 2); what conception had to be in place for the question to arise at all (History 3).
Readings
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá. Yorùbá Culture: A Philosophical Account. (Chapters 2–3)
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá (2001). “Spirituality and Applied Ethics: An African Perspective.” West Africa Review 3(1).
- Ìdòwú, E. Bọ́lájí. Olódùmarè: God in Yorùbá Belief. Longmans, 1962. (Chapters 1–4 — read critically) no online copy — read instead the critique of Ìdòwú in Abímbọ́lá, “Spirituality and Applied Ethics” (2001), section “The Spiritual and the Natural in the Yorùbá Cosmos” (PDF pp. 4–11) and notes 4–6 and 12–13 (pp. 21–24): the “four days of creation” mistranslation, the Christianised Olódùmarè, and Ọ̀run as “heaven”.
Further reading
- Ryle, Gilbert. The Concept of Mind. Hutchinson, 1949. (Chapter 1, “Descartes’ Myth”)
- wa Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ. Decolonising the Mind. James Currey, 1986.
- Pemberton, John. “Eshu-Elegba: The Yoruba Trickster God.” African Arts 9(1), 1975. JSTOR only — read instead the Èṣù-Elegba section of Thompson, Flash of the Spirit, chapter 1 (“Black Saints Go Marching In”), on your FlowPaper.