A REVIEW OF PANTALEON IREOGBU’S “METAPHYSICS: THE KPIM OF PHILOSOPHYâ€

KANU Ikechukwu Anthony

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In his work Metaphysics: The Kpim of Philosophy, Pantaleon dedicated the 24th chapter to the development of his uwa ontology, which is a synthesis of his perception of reality. For him, “Uwa defines being. It summarizes being and beings for me- it englobes all beings in the bossom of Uwa- being-... Whatever is, in so far as it is, is Uwa. Uwa is reality and reality is Uwa†(p. 338). To deepen his search, he studied the meaning of Uwa. Translated from the Igbo to the English, it simply means world, however, Pantaleon took advantage of the richness of the Igbo meaning and defined it thus,  The entirety of existence, from God the highest being to inanimate beings of our cosmos, can be summarized in the englobing concept of the Igbo term Uwa. Uwa is all inclusive. It mirrors being, existence, entity, all reality. It englobes all that is animate and inanimate, visible and invisible. It is comprehensive, universal and global. It is transcendent and immanent scope as well as explicative and prospective elasticity (p. 339).

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