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Title

Yoruba philosophy and the seeds of enlightenment : advancing Yoruba philosophy / Yemi D. Prince (Yemi D. Ogunyemi).

Author

Ogunyemi, Yemi D.

Publication

Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2018]

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Description

xxviii, 225 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

For upwards of 25 years, Yemi D. Prince (also known as Yemi D. Ogunyemi) has systematically devoted himself to the education, research and reason of Creative Writing and from Creative Writing to Creative Thinking and from Creative Thinking to Yoruba narrative, cultural, folk philosophy. On realizing that Creative Thinking has become his area of focus and interest, he succeeds in cultivating big ideas, combining them with his life-long experiences in the Humanities, transforming them into new ways of writing, thinking or reasoning. (Some of his big ideas have led to the publication of booklets such as Yoruba Idealism, We Should All Be Philosophers, The Artist-Philosophers in Yoruba land, Codes of Morality and Pursuit of Wisdom.) Thus his big ideas have helped him separate Yoruba folk philosophy from Yoruba autochthonous religion. With his love for big ideas, born out of Creative Thinking and Critical Thinking, he has been able to put a new face on Yoruba Philosophy.

Series Statement

Vernon series in philosophy

Uniform Title

Vernon series in philosophy

Subject

• Africa > History
• Philosophy, Yoruba

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Yoruba philosophy in the beginning -- The kernel of Yoruba philosophy -- Oduduwa's leadership philosophy -- The power of words and love -- Some hints in teaching Yoruba philosophy -- The philosophy of sacrifice -- Head, the philosophy of the body -- A typical Yoruba narrative philosophy -- Diviners as philosophers -- Artistic expression of Yoruba philosophy -- The metaphysical divinities -- The ontological journey to the Atlantic Yoruba -- The theory of narrative, literary or folk philosophy -- Vicissitudes of Yoruba philosophy -- The sociology of Yoruba philosophy -- The symbolism of Oshogbo School of Arts movement -- The political philosophy of Chief Awo (1909-1987) -- The sublimity of Fagunwa's philosophy (1903-1963) -- The royalties and the Yoruba thought -- The import of Ijapa's philosophy -- Yoruba philosophy of happiness -- A new dawn, part one -- A new dawn, part two -- The way to enlightenment -- The effects of psychology on Yoruba thought -- The characteristics of Yoruba pragmatism -- The effects of paradoxes on Yoruba philosophy -- The impacts of proverbs on Yoruba thought -- The philosophical aphorisms -- The colourful house of ethics -- The religion-philosophy of Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1807-1891) -- Philosophy of Yoruba langauge.

ISBN

• 9781622733019
• 1622733010

OCLC

1005113960

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library