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Vol. 5 No. 10 (2021): OS SABERES AUSENTES DA CIDADE LETRADA NO SÉCULO XXI

O SIGNIFICADO DA COMUNIDADE-ORUM-AIYÉ OU COMUNIDADE-UNIVERSO-NATUREZA NA FILOSOFIA AFRICANA DO NTU-AXÉ

Submitted
April 14, 2021
Published
2021-08-02

Abstract

The debate on the rights of Nature has been gaining ground lately. Latin American thinkers have guided the debate from the ancestral paradigm of Pachamama as a way to overcome the planetary crisis established by the dominant forces of capitalism. African intellectuals, on the other hand, have been betting on their ancestral philosophies as a way to bring their contribution. Situating within the scope of Ntu's African Philosophy, this article aims to understand the origin, the place of the Community-Universe-Nature in African ontology and cosmogenesis. To this end, it analyzes the Egyptian, Yoruban, Adja and Bakongo myths and the African philosophical texts that focus on the Universe, the World, Nature or Earth. The main argument made is that the African people knew about Astronomy, Astrology, Astrobiology and Philosophy. In this context, the concept of Universe, Word, Nature or Earth must be understood in their native languages ​​and idioms: Noun, Aton, Ra, Olodumare, Iranião-Oquê, Orun-Aiyé, Nzambi-Kalunga. The texts that were analyzed suggest that the Yoruban terms Orum and Aiyé make it possible to define unambiguously what the author calls Community-Universe-Nature, and therefore argues that it would be better to call it Community-Orum-Aiyé.

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