Open AccessHaitian/Vilokan Idealism, Lakouism, and the Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism
Author(s) -
Paul C. Mocombe
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
issues in social science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2329-521X
DOI - 10.5296/iss.v7i1.14750
Subject(s) - idealism , realism , materialism , pragmatism , transcendental idealism , philosophy , epistemology , phenomenology (philosophy) , communism , injustice , sociology , religious studies , politics , social psychology , law , psychology , political science
The demystification of the Vodou religion or ontology as practiced in Haiti, epistemologically reveals a form of transcendental idealism and realism, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, which produces a hermeneutical phenomenology, materialism, and an antidialectical process to history enframed by a reciprocal justice as its normative ethics. This work posits and concludes, that Haitian ontology, Vodou/Vilokan, gave rise to its epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, which subsequently gave rise to the Vodou Ethic and the spirit of communism and the lakou system as its form of social and system integration, respectively.