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Mind, consciousness, and thought in the Kmtyw worldview-gctid257815

Started by Heru Djet, Nov 30, 2017, 01:56 AM

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Nov 30, 2017, 01:56 AM
Here I want to present various ideas pertaining to Kmtyw conceptions of the mind and thought, as they are found in traditional Kmtyw culture. I welcome others' contributions.

"Susununya is knowledge gained from reflection. Its nature is deductive or contemplative. This does not require an immediate experience as its source, but relies on deduction from premises that have been already established."
-N.K. Dzobo on categories of Ewe knowledge
"Since most of our conscious modes of conceptualizing, acting and moving about are conditioned in part by our language, to use the language of another culture is to use that culture's ideas; and to use another culture's ideas in place of one's own is to relegate the latter to a position of de facto inferiority."
-sbAt Rkhty Amen
Nov 30, 2017, 01:57 AM #1
QuoteHeru Djet;257815 wrote: Here I want to present various ideas pertaining to Kmtyw conceptions of the mind and thought, as they are found in traditional Kmtyw culture. I welcome others' contributions.

"Susununya is knowledge gained from reflection. Its nature is deductive or contemplative. This does not require an immediate experience as its source, but relies on deduction from premises that have been already established."
-N.K. Dzobo on categories of Ewe knowledge
Looking forward to learning and growing.

"For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor." - Walter Rodney
"Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it"
Dec 01, 2017, 05:51 PM #2
QuoteHeru Djet;257815 wrote: Here I want to present various ideas pertaining to Kmtyw conceptions of the mind and thought, as they are found in traditional Kmtyw culture. I welcome others' contributions.

"Susununya is knowledge gained from reflection. Its nature is deductive or contemplative. This does not require an immediate experience as its source, but relies on deduction from premises that have been already established."
-N.K. Dzobo on categories of Ewe knowledge
Thanks for sharing, I look forward to learning. Susununya also looks like an Akan word.

Susu- to measure

Nya- to obtain
Woforo dua pa a, yɛpia wo.





If you climb a good tree, we push you.
Dec 10, 2017, 04:21 AM #3
QuoteTenkamenin;258000 wrote: Thanks for sharing, I look forward to learning. Susununya also looks like an Akan word.

Susu- to measure

Nya- to obtain
This is from the same essay:

"This basic understanding of the verb nya is supported by its Akan use. Nya is perhaps originally an Akan word or a common inheritance. In Akan it means 'to find', 'to gain', 'to come by' as found in such expressions as Manya asem: 'I have got trouble'; Wanya sika: 'He has found (made) money'; Wonyaa wo he?: ‘Where did you find it?’ The uses of nya in these instances always imply that the subject of the sentences is ‘doing something,’ i.e., ‘going through an experience and getting something from it.’ Therefore, if the verb nya is used epistemically it implies that the subject of the very nya is doing something -  observing or experiencing something and then deriving something out of it. What is derived from such an experience is nunya (knowledge).”
"Since most of our conscious modes of conceptualizing, acting and moving about are conditioned in part by our language, to use the language of another culture is to use that culture's ideas; and to use another culture's ideas in place of one's own is to relegate the latter to a position of de facto inferiority."
-sbAt Rkhty Amen
Dec 14, 2017, 05:40 AM #4
"In the same way, opolo is recognized as the life-wire of logical reasoning and ratiocinative activities. Located in the head, opolo controls the mental activities of human beings. A person who misbehaves is described as having no opolo or whose opolo is malfunctioning. The mentally retarded is one whose opolo is not complete, the insane is one whose opolo is disrupted. Opolo is thus a material component and the functions and activities it performs are carried out and recognized on the physical plane. It can also be located in the head and traditional psychiatrists generally identify a disruption in its functioning as a physical cause of mental illness. This, of course, does not rule out their also looking for extra-natural causes for such illness if, after a period of medication based on the theory of physical cause, the patient does not improve."
-Segun Gbadegesin, Kmtyw Philosophy: Traditional Yoruba Philosophy and Contemporary Kmtyw Realities
"Since most of our conscious modes of conceptualizing, acting and moving about are conditioned in part by our language, to use the language of another culture is to use that culture's ideas; and to use another culture's ideas in place of one's own is to relegate the latter to a position of de facto inferiority."
-sbAt Rkhty Amen
Apr 03, 2018, 09:31 PM #5
"Nyansa is a special type of knowledge: it is drawn from experience and is cherished because of its value for one's life. The elders are usually credited with the ability to draw appropriate lessons (nyansa) from the various experiences of life."
-Dzobo, Knowledge and Truth
"Since most of our conscious modes of conceptualizing, acting and moving about are conditioned in part by our language, to use the language of another culture is to use that culture's ideas; and to use another culture's ideas in place of one's own is to relegate the latter to a position of de facto inferiority."
-sbAt Rkhty Amen
May 09, 2018, 08:30 PM #6
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"Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it"
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