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The Concept of Active Consciousness in Marcien Towa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Cheikh Moctar Bâ
Cheikh Moctar Bâ*
Affiliation:
Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
*
Cheikh Moctar Bâ, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, BP 3256, Senegal. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

It is a question of seeing through the study of certain philosophical positions of Marcien Towa how philosophical activity is an experience of freedom, an active consciousness in motion. Indeed, in Marcien Towa, freedom is the result of a process of rediscovery of self that animates the subject aware of its existence in the world. The unveiling of the essence of me is a necessity or an imperative whose effectiveness is the result of questioning the essence of the self that is reborn from its treating myself as a goal, as a consciousness of freedom. This is where there is reconciliation of the self with itself, the advent of a new subject that can take care of themselves as free and autonomous entity and that supports his destiny.

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Diogenes , Volume 59 , Issue 3-4: Africana Philosophy , November 2012 , pp. 13 - 24
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Copyright © ICPHS 2014

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