The Panpsychist Dimension of Kwame Gyekye's Theistic Conception of God.
Kwame Gyekye's interpretation of traditional Akan religious thought leads him to the conception of God as a being that possesses the properties of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence. Adopting an analytical and hermeneutical method, I argue in this article that Gyekye's understanding of Go...
| Publicado en: | Sophia Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 5 - 21 |
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