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- Title
THE APPARENT CONFLICT OF TRANSCENDENTALISM AND IMMANENTISM IN KWAME GYEKYE AND KWASI WIREDU'S INTERPRETATION OF THE AKAN CONCEPT OF GOD.
- Authors
AGADA, Ada
- Abstract
In this paper I compare Kwame Gyekye's transcendentalist interpretation of the Akan conception of God with Kwasi Wiredu's immanentist interpretation. I highlight the tension between the two thinkers' interpretations of Akan religious thought within the broader conflict between transcendence and immanence. Using the analytic, critical, and interpretative method, I show how the reconciliation of Gyekye and Wiredu's divergent, yet paradoxically overlapping visions can be effected in the idea of panpsychism. In the process of effecting this reconciliation, I open up a new area of research in African philosophy of religion that African philosophers will find rewarding to engage.
- Subjects
GYEKYE, Kwame; WIREDU, Kwasi, 1931-2022; PANPSYCHISM; IMMANENCE of God; VISIONS
- Publication
Filosofia Theoretica: African Journal of Philosophy, Culture & Religions, 2017, Vol 6, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
2276-8386
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4314/ft.v6i1.2