This week’s slidesHAP 07 — Òrìṣà Ethics
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. “The Òrìṣà Legal Tradition.” Philosophia Africana 20(2), 2021: 107–128. PDF — §3–4 on ẹbọ as obligation, ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́ as the ratio decidendi of every Ifá poem, and the Annual Ifá reading as precedent.
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá. Yorùbá Culture: A Philosophical Account. (Chapter 5)
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá. “Culture and the Principles of Biomedical Ethics.” Journal of Commercial Biotechnology 19(3), 2013: 31–39.
- Abímbọ́lá, Kọ́lá (2007). “Medicine and Culture: Transcultural Needs in Modern Western Societies.” AvMA Medical and Law Journal 13(3): 112–116.
- Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520 (1993) — opinion and oral argument.
- Metz, Thaddeus. “African Ethics.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Further reading
- Abimbola, W. (1984). “The Notion of Sacrifice in Yoruba Religion.”
- Abímbọ́lá, Wándé. “The Yoruba Concept of Human Personality.” In G. Dieterlen (ed.), La Notion de Personne en Afrique Noire. Paris: CNRS, 1973: 73–89. — covers the same ground as Gbadegesin’s “Ẹ̀nìyàn” (1998); and Wiredu, Kwasi. “Akan Philosophy of the Person.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. for comparison.
- Evans, E. P. The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals. Heinemann, 1906.