Wednesday, December 3, 2014

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Iwa l’Ewa : The Intersection of Aesthetics and Metaphysics in Classical Yoruba Philosophy : From Human Being to Being in General







                                                                                                                                                           
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                                                                                                                                                                                              Iwa l'Ewa

 

                                                                                                                                                           The Intersection of Aesthetics and Metaphysics

 

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                                                                                                                                                                               Classical Yoruba Philosophy


                                                                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                                                          Human Being to Being in General



 

                                                                                                                                                                              Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

                                                                                                                                                                                           Compcros

                                                                                                                                                                 Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems

                                                                                                                                                    "Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"





                                                                                                                                                          


                                                                                                                                                Igba Iwa, the Calabash of Existence.


                                                                                                                                The contents of the calabash embody a distillation of essential being.

                                                                                                  The outer form demonstrates symmetry of various components composed by the  harmonious                 
                                                                                                               intricacy of abstract and figural forms in rhythm with a rich sonority of colour
                                                                                                                                  and balance of two halves realising a holistic spherical unity.

                                                                                                             This conjunction of inner and outer, and of multiplicity in unity in external form
                                                                                                    constitutes a union of elements projecting the aesthetic form that is the totality of being.



              

Iwa l'Ewa

Character is beauty


Iwa l'Ewa

Inner self is beauty


Iwa l'Ewa

Inward configuration is beauty


Iwa l'Ewa

Interior configuration is beauty


Iwa l'Ewa

The interior aesthetic configuration that defines individual being


Iwa l'Ewa

The inner aesthetic form that constitutes the essence of individual existence


Iwa l'Ewa

The aesthetic form that constitutes the essence of individual being


Iwa l'Ewa

The inner aesthetic form that constitutes essential individual existence


Iwa l'Ewa

Essential nature is beauty[1]


Iwa l'Ewa

Inward beauty in manifestation


Iwa l'Ewa

Existence is defined by inward beauty


Iwa l'Ewa

The inward configuration of being is an aesthetic form


Iwa l'Ewa

Being is beauty


Iwa l'Ewa

The aesthetic essence manifest as being


Iwa l'Ewa

The aesthetic essence of being


Iwa l'Ewa

Being in its aesthetic essence


Iwa l'Ewa

Being in its aesthetic configuration


Iwa l'Ewa

The consummation of existence in beauty


Iwa l'Ewa

The aesthetic configuration constituted by the essence of being


Iwa l'Ewa

Existence in its intrinsic aesthetic potency


Iwa l'Ewa

The beauty of existence is its essence



Iwa l'Ewa

The configuration of beauty that is the essence of being


Iwa l'Ewa

The inward aesthetic form that defines existence




[1]  By Olabiyi Babalola Yai in review of Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thoughtby Henry John Drewal; John Pemberton; Rowland Abiodun; Allen Wardwell. African Arts, Vol. 25,No. 1 (Jan., 1992), 20+22+24+26+29. 22.

 

 

 

InspirationalTexts


Rowland Abiodun,  "The Future of African Art Studies, : An African Perspective", African Art Studies: The Sate of the Discipline. Washington: TheSmithsonian, 1987.63-89.


Babatunde Lawal, "Divinity,Creativity and Humanity in Yoruba Aesthetics", Before Pangaea :New Essays in Transcultural Aesthetics. Edited by Eugenio Benitez.Volume 15, Number 1 Special Issue 2005. 161-174.


Olabiyi Babalola Yai, Review of Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought by Henry John Drewal; John Pemberton; Rowland Abiodun; Allen Wardwell. African Arts, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan.,1992), 20+22+24+26+29.


HenryJohn Drewal; John Pemberton; Rowland Abiodun; Allen Wardwell, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art andThought.New York :The Centre for African Art.1989.42.


Wande Abimbola, "Iwapele :The Concept of Good Character in Ifa Literary Corpus", Yoruba Oral Tradition. ed. by Wande Abimbola. Ile Ife :University of Ife, 1975


[1] Olabiyi Babalola Yai, Review of Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought by Henry John Drewal; John Pemberton; Rowland Abiodun; Allen Wardwell. African Arts, Vol. 25,No. 1 (Jan., 1992), 20+22+24+26+29. 22., quoting Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought by Henry John Drewal; John Pemberton; Rowland Abiodun; Allen Wardwell. New York: The Centre for African Art.1989.42.



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