Honestly Toyin, I have not seriously thought of alternative approaches. I will however favour approaches that do not allow the personality of the messenger to obscure the message. I detest personality cults.
CAO.
On Thursday, 26 December 2013 19:04:18 UTC+1, tovadepoju wrote:
-- CAO.
On Thursday, 26 December 2013 19:04:18 UTC+1, tovadepoju wrote:
i find this intriguing, Chidi'to espouse the ideas these notable figures propagated'can you suggest alternativeapproaches? On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi...@gmail.com> wrote:Toyin,Don't you think that if we continue to establish groups like the "Wole Soyinka Society" yahoo group and this, we will just end up building personality cults? Do we have to establish these groups to be able to espouse the ideas these notable figures propagated?CAO.
On Thursday, 26 December 2013 17:04:37 UTC+1, tovadepoju wrote:If i might comment while awaiting your explanation, to the best of my knowledge, the question of the central forces behind history has been contentious in philosophy and various world views.One may describe two contrastive poles in relation to this idea in terms of the centrality of human agency and the contrastive idea of the centrality of transpersonal, non-human agents or principles, and a meditating position in terms of a dialogue between those two views.From St. Augustine's pioneering City of God, to Hegel, Marx, Arnold Toynbee, Karl Popper and other thinkers, to various religions and world views, this question resonates, and may be described in terms of the basic ideational map I have presented.thankstoyinOn Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <tovad...@gmail.com> wrote:Please clarify, IbrahimI would like to understand you betterOn Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdu...@gmail.com> wrote:Do u really need to evoke Marx re the centrality of human agency in history? This is high school stuff not even HS 101.
---On Dec 26, 2013 2:12 PM, "Oluwatoyin Adepoju"<tovad...@gmail.com> wrote:An Irele sentence'For if, as Karl Marx has observed (in The Holy Family), human beings are the real source of history and not an impersonal principle, it is the myriad forms of exchange and transactions between peoples and races, either in situations of conflict or, as is more often the case, as strategies of accommodation to each other, that have everywhere and over the ages determined the evolution of our world.'A quintessential Irele paragraph, in the range of knowledge it is resting on, its evocation of vast possibilities, while remaining a precise expression of a specific idea or ideas, constitutes a research project.Distinguished Lecture Series feat. Professor Francis Abiola Irele: "Cultural Encounters and the African Experience"To post to this group, send an email to USAAfric...@googlegroups.com--On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <tovad...@gmail.com> wrote:Exploring Abiola IreleAbiola Irele is one of the great writers in all history.His ideas resonate across cultures in time and space.Let us come together to study this great thinker and writer.
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