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The Notion of Causality in Edo Metaphysics: a hermeneutico philosophical study | ||
مجله پژوهش های فلسفی | ||
دوره 16، شماره 41، دی 1401، صفحه 438-459 اصل مقاله (453.5 K) | ||
نوع مقاله: مقاله علمی- پژوهشی | ||
شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22034/jpiut.2021.45489.2795 | ||
نویسنده | ||
Emmanuel Asia* | ||
استادیار دانشکذه هنر، دانشگاه بنین، بنین، نیجریه | ||
چکیده | ||
One of the most important and most discussed problems of traditional and contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science is the problem of causality. The problem has generated a lot of controversies and debates from scholars. One clear point amidst these discussions on the causality problem is that the last has neither been written nor heard. It remains an open-ended issue for philosophical consideration. The causation problem itself is not just a problem but a cluster of problems with puzzling questions such as; how do causes bring about their effects? Our concern in this paper is not to examine all the problems that are embedded in the relationship between cause and effect, but to focus on the metaphysical problem of how cause, conceived as a separate event is related or connected to the effect. Several theories have been postulated by Western scholars like Aristotle, Spinoza, Hume, Hempel, Russell, Kant, Mill, among others to explain the kind of causal connection obtainable between causes and effects. Some of these theories of causation are traditional view or common sense view, Humean, and the host of others. It is a fact that some of these theories have failed in proffering a philosophical solution to the traditional causation problem. In an attempt to further reflect on the traditional causation problem, this paper undertakes an exposition of the nature of causality, determinism, freedom and predestination in traditional African thought with the aim of proffering better explanation towards resolving the traditional causation problem. | ||
کلیدواژهها | ||
determinism؛ freedom؛ predestination؛ African ontology؛ cause and effect | ||
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