The Making of Ancestral Persons
In this paper, I address a range of arguments put forward by Katrin Flikschuh (2016) casting doubts on a theoretical account ofancestral persons in the work of Ifeanyi Menkiti. She argues both that their ontological status is uncertain and that they areontologically redundant. I argue that she does...
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2022-09-01
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| description | In this paper, I address a range of arguments put forward by Katrin Flikschuh (2016) casting doubts on a theoretical account ofancestral persons in the work of Ifeanyi Menkiti. She argues both that their ontological status is uncertain and that they areontologically redundant. I argue that she does not succeed in convincing us to settle for a practical justification of ancestors. Ithen supplement Menkiti’s life-history account of post-mortem persistence with Searle’s account of social ontology with a viewto theoretically justify belief in the existence of ancestral persons.
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| spelling | doaj.art-2f9827b6363c4e6b8ba9d0dfb3195f922023-05-28T07:32:05ZengUniversity of ViennaJournal of Social Ontology2196-96632022-09-018110.25365/jso-2022-68569153The Making of Ancestral PersonsOritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe0The University of the Western CapeIn this paper, I address a range of arguments put forward by Katrin Flikschuh (2016) casting doubts on a theoretical account ofancestral persons in the work of Ifeanyi Menkiti. She argues both that their ontological status is uncertain and that they areontologically redundant. I argue that she does not succeed in convincing us to settle for a practical justification of ancestors. Ithen supplement Menkiti’s life-history account of post-mortem persistence with Searle’s account of social ontology with a viewto theoretically justify belief in the existence of ancestral persons. https://journalofsocialontology.org/index.php/jso/article/view/6856personhoodancestorssocial ontologytheoretical justificationmind-independencerealism |
| spellingShingle | Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe The Making of Ancestral Persons Journal of Social Ontology personhood ancestors social ontology theoretical justification mind-independence realism |
| title | The Making of Ancestral Persons |
| title_full | The Making of Ancestral Persons |
| title_fullStr | The Making of Ancestral Persons |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Making of Ancestral Persons |
| title_short | The Making of Ancestral Persons |
| title_sort | making of ancestral persons |
| topic | personhood ancestors social ontology theoretical justification mind-independence realism |
| url | https://journalofsocialontology.org/index.php/jso/article/view/6856 |
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