Les travaux théoriques récents en urbanisation ont tendance à supposer que les conditions historiques du capitalisme avancé sont universelles. To achieve this objective, the article is woven around the following research questions: What are the distinctive Igbo and Yoruba traditional perceptions of evil in their world views? How do these affect considerations of moral responsibility? Methodologically, the paper applies philosophical argumentation and analysis in interrogation of the issues involved in its objectives. As its objective, this article explores the moral issues arising from their traditional cultural perspective on evil, especially as relating to the existence of evil and moral responsibility. Despite the influences of foreign cultures as Christianity and Islam, certain primordial convictions endured in Igbo and Yoruba cultures. Going by this, Africans have reflected on questions concerning what is evil culturally and religiously, both which cannot be detached from moral viewpoints on evil. Perspectives on the existence of evil are as real in Africa as they are in other parts of the.
As humans experience or cope with the reality of evil in its various forms in daily existence, every cultural group finds ways of explaining and contending with it in its world view. Posing, a problem to which the answer is too flexible and elusive, is indicative enough of that certainĪspects of this negative view on modernism are indeed valid and substantiated in certain socialĮvil and its moral consequences are problematic as far as human societies are concerned, whether primitive or civilised. The fact that modernism has posed, and still is Present in the mass media, particularly online sources. Modernist ideology has, if one only considers the limitless number of overly negative analytical studies Those criticisms have acquired the status of a theoretical teaching, just like the Often extreme and seems caught up in the clichéd generalizations of dehumanization, fragmentation,Īlienation and the like. Of different cultures, thus dissolving their character into the common artificial aesthetic of ‘sterility’ is Oversimplification preached by geometric fundamentalism erases the diverse idiosyncratic specificities
Geometrical abstraction is imposed on the natural and traditional landscapes of countries and their societies, thus violently destroying the urban and cultural fabrics of the past2. One of the major critiques of modernism by a lot of traditionalist analysts is that
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