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1.3.2 The Theological Thought
According
to the theological thought, it is believed the supreme being (God) from
whom all things were made and who holds the entire universe in his
hands also made man.
Let us make man in our image and likeness; let
them have dominion over all other creatures… So God created man in his
own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he
created them.13
Right down the history, man is an indubitable being
that exists in the world otherwise, there would be no history for there
would be no man to talk about the past, the present or even predict the
future.
1.3.3 Philosophical Thought
According to the emanation
theory, human race emanated from some live forces in the world and some
great men fashioned by the gods of Pantheon (The Early Greek pyramid
text record). Also, the creationists, pictured man to be descendants or
rather, products of Gods so that all things come from divine
architecture and genealogy – Theory of creationism.
In the 19th
century, man was believed to have originated from animals not from gods.
An instance is the Darwin’s. “The Descent of man†Here Darwin treated
man’s origin and history in the context of animal origins or evaluation.
In the evolutionist, theory man is believed to have descended from
common ancestors among the primates by natural evolutionary process like
isolation, adaptation, natural selection, and mutation.
1 Stumpf, S.E. Philosophy: History and Problems [London: McGraw-Hill Book. CO., 1989], p.96.
2 Mondin B, Philosophical Anthropology,[ Rome: Urbanian Univ. Press, 1985], P.247.
3 Ibid., p.194
4 Ibid. p.250.
5 Ibid., p.21
6 Higgins. T.J.S., Man as Man: The Science and arts of Ethics [Milwaukee: Bruce Pub., Co., 1968], p.157.
7 Edeh E.M.P., Towards an Igbo Metaphysics,[ Chicago, Loyola University, press, 1985], p.100.
8 Ekei. J.C., Justice in Communalism [Lagos, Realm Comm. Ltd., 2001], p.92.
9 Donceel. J.F., Philosophical Anthropology,[ New York: Sheed and Ward, 1967], p.454.
10 Ibid. p.455.
11 New Catholic Encyclopedia,[ New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Vol V, 1966], p.671
12 Ibid., p.232
13 Gen., I: 26-27
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