Teilhard de Chardin and Senghor on the civilization of the universal

• To my beloved mother of blessed memory
  
• Gisèle Ekobo
  

• RESUME
  
  • CONTENTS
    
  • Dedication...............................................................................................................ii
    
  • 0.1. Aim of study...................................................................................................10
    
  • I.1. The notion of totality in Teilhardian metaphysics..................................17
    
  • I.1.4. The ultra reflection....................................................................................24
    
  • I.2.3. Complementarity of Races in totalisation...................................................29
    
  • I.3.2. A step towards union...................................................................................33
    
• INTRODUCTION
  
• I.1. TOTALITY IN TEILHARDIAN METAPHYSICS
  
  • I.1.1. The problem of the One and the Many
    
  • I.1.2. Omega: The Point of Universal Convergence
    
  • I.1.3. Attributes of the Omega Point
    
  • I.1.4. The Ultra Reflection
    
• I.2.THE FOUNDATIONS OF A RACIAL MORALITY
  
  • 1.2.1. Unity in unanimity.
    
  • 1.2.2. Unity in diversity
    
  • I.2.3. Complementarity of Human Races in Totalisation
    
  • I.2.4. Unity and not Identity
    
• I.3. THE PRESENT SITUATION AND MUTUAL DUTY OF HUMAN RACES
  
  • I.3.1. The conflict situation
    
  • I.3.2. A step towards union
    
  • I.3.3. A reliable hypothesis:
    
  • I.3.4. The Significance and Value of Human Totalisation
    
  • CONCLUSION
    
• INTRODUCTION
  
• II.1. THE FOUNDATIONS OF SENGHOR'S CIVILIZATION OF THE UNIVERSAL
  
  • II.1.1. The Complementarity of Human Races
    
  • II.1.2. The Negro-African Race
    
  • II.1.3. The Effects of Colonisation
    
• II.2. SENGHOR'S AFRICAN SOCIALISM
  
  • II.2.1. An Inventory of Traditional Values
    
  • II.2.2. An Inventory of Western Civilization and its impacts on Africa
    
  • II.2.2.1. The Inferiority Complex in the African
    
  • II.2.2.2. The Split of Personality
    
  • II.2.3. An Inventory of our African Resources
    
• II.3. THE NEGRO-AFRICAN VISION OF THE WORLD
  
  • II.3.1. The Concept of Being
    
  • II.3.2. The Concept of Nature
    
  • II.3.3. The Concept of World
    
  • II.3.4. The Concept of God
    
  • II.3.5. The Concept of Man
    
  • II.3.6. The Concept of time
    
  • II.3.7. African and Teilhardian World Views
    
• II.4. THE NEGRO-AFRICAN ROLE AND CONTRIBUTION TO THE CIVILIZATION OF THE UNIVERSAL
  
  • II.4.1. Senghor's Ideal Society
    
  • II.4.2. The Communal Dimension of Love in Africa
    
  • II.4.3. Africa and Civilization
    
  • II.4.4. Africa and the Sciences
    
  • II.4.5. Africa and Art
    
  • II.4.6. Africa and Religion
    
  • II.4.7. Africa and Philosophy
    
• CONCLUSION
  
• INTRODUCTION
  
• III.1. POSITIVE IMPACTS OF SENGHOR'S
  
  • III.1.1. Pan-African Unity
    
  • 3.1.2. The Revalorisation of African Traditional Values
    
  • 3.1.3. Against Inferiority Complex and Depersonalisation
    
• III.2. NEGATIVE IMPLICATIONS
  
• OF SENGHOR'S HUMANISM
  
  • III.2.1. Ethnocentrism
    
  • III.2.2. No Revolutionary Praxis
    
  • III.2.3. The Glorification of the Past
    
• III.3. THE CIVILIZATION
  
• OF THE UNIVERSAL AND NEGRITUDE
  
  • III.3.1. What is Négritude?
    
  • III.3.2. Négritude in the light of the Civilization of the Universal
    
  • III.3.3. Senghor the Oxymoron
    
• CONCLUSION
  

• GENERAL CONCLUSION
  
  • IV.1. The Actuality of Teilhard de Chardin and Senghor
    
  • IV.2. African Art, Industrialisation and Globalisation
    
  • IV.3. The Civilization of the Universal: Myth or Reality?
    
• SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  
  • 5.1. MAIN SOURCES
    
  • 5.2. SECONDARY SOURCES
    
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
  • Dedication...................................................................................................................ii
    
  • 0.1. Aim of study.......................................................................................................10
    
  • I.1. The notion of totality in Teilhardian metaphysics.......................................17
    
  • I.1.4. The ultra reflection..........................................................................................24
    
  • I.2.3. Complementarity of Races in totalisation.......................................................29
    
  • I.3.2. A step towards union.......................................................................................33