The Akan Doctrine of God: A Fragment of Gold Coast Ethics and Religion

by J.B. Danquah

Overview

First Published in 1968. Danquah's desire with this title is to expound Akan thought in such a way as to make it comprehensible to western thinkers and to demonstrate that it is comparable to their system. In pursuance of this objective, he calls forth his philosophical training and indulges in metaphysical and ethical speculation. The effects of this are evident in the whole book, whether in his discussion of the nature of the supreme Being or in his exposition of Akan ethical thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136971693
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/02/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

J.B. Danquah

Table of Contents

The Quest of the Doctrine; chapter I In Search of the Akan God; chapter II Critique of the Doctrine; chapter III The Positive Doctrine; The Akan Meaning of God; chapter IV Onyame, the Akan Deity; chapter V Onyamkopon Kwaame, or the God of Saturday; chapter VI Odomankoma, or the Infinitely Manifold God; Ethical Canons of the Doctrine; chapter VII Conservation of Virtue; chapter VIII The Elimination of Evil; Chapter IX Moral Progress; chapter X Human Progress; The Eight Akan Postulates; chapter XI The Truth of the Postulates; chapter XII The Ethnic Postulates; chapter XIII The Nana (Or Exemplar); Universal Utiltity of the Postulates; Chapter XIV O-Te Or Understanding (Onyame); chapter XV Sunsum Or Experience (Onyankopon); chapter XVI Okara or Insight (Odomankoma); chapter XVII Honhom or the Spirit of Being; post This postscript was originally the “Introduction” to the larger work, “Gold Coast Ethics and Religion,” Parts I and II of which have now perished, and are beyond recovery. It is justly called a postscript because, like all genuine “Introductions,” it was written after the text of the work had been completed;