Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (SJHSS)
Volume-3 | Issue-01 | 119-125
Review Article
Haitian Epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, and Aesthetics
Paul C. Mocombe
Published : Jan. 30, 2018
Abstract
This work explores the nature and origins of Haitian epistemology, the
lens through which Haitians consciously and unconsciously come to know,
interpret, and make sense of the known and unknown world around them, and its
aesthetics. The article posits that Haitian epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism,
is a transcendental idealist and realist philosophy/epistemology that developed out
of the demystification and ever-increasing rationalization of the African (spiritual)
worldview (Vilokan/Vodou) of the majority of the inhabitants of the island, and its
aesthetics is grounded in the distinction between the noumenal world of Vilokan
and the phenomenal one of lived-experience and their dialectical interaction.