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Week 2.5: Concepts of the Person — The Person as Multiple Selves (Continued)

Format: Video + Secured PDF Combo
Duration: 3 hours, 51 minutes, 18 seconds
PDF: 69 slides
(Primary and supplementary readings not included with this product)

Understanding Kmt(.y.w) Thought

This lesson continues the sustained examination of the Kmt(.y.w) conception of the human person as a composite and relational being, rather than an indivisible, atomized individual. Drawing on classical and contemporary Kmt(.y.w) intellectual traditions across the continent and the diaspora, the session interrogates how personhood is understood as the dynamic interaction of multiple, interdependent selves, each with distinct ontological, moral, and cosmological functions.

Rather than reducing the human being to biology or psychology alone, this lesson situates personhood within a cosmological framework that integrates the spiritual, ancestral, ethical, and social dimensions of existence. Students are guided through a comparative and historically grounded analysis that demonstrates the continuity of these ideas from classical Kmt through West, Central, and Southern Kmt(.y.w) systems, and into contemporary thought.

Core Themes and Areas of Focus

This lesson explores the following interconnected dimensions of the Kmt(.y.w) person:

• The Multiple Selves of Kmt(.y.w) Thought
  An introduction to the foundational principle that the human being is constituted by multiple coexisting selves rather than a singular essence.

• The Destiny or Spiritual Double
  Examination of the metaphysical counterpart that precedes birth, accompanies the individual through life, and anchors destiny within cosmic order.

• The Soul or Breath
  Analysis of life-force, vitality, and animating principle as understood in Kmt(.y.w) cosmology, distinct from Western soul/body dualisms.

• The Heart
  Consideration of the heart as a center of moral intelligence, memory, intention, and ethical accountability.

• The Ancestral Guardian
  Exploration of the ongoing relationship between the living and the ancestral realm, emphasizing continuity rather than rupture between life and death.

• The Shadow
  Discussion of the shadow as an integral, non-pathological aspect of personhood tied to presence, protection, and existential completeness.

Intellectual Foundations and Readings

The lesson is grounded in close engagement with primary and secondary texts that articulate Kmt(.y.w) philosophies of personhood, including:

• Kamalu, C. Person, Divinity and Nature — foundational framework for understanding personhood as cosmologically embedded

• Fu-Kiau, K. K. B. — therapeutic and healing dimensions of multiple selves

• Ephirim-Donkor — ancestral becoming and post-mortem continuity

• Obenga — classical Kmt philosophical formulations of the human being

• Wilson — contemporary political and moral implications of Kmt(.y.w) anthropology

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this lesson, students will have:

• developed a rigorous understanding of personhood as a plural, structured, and cosmologically grounded reality in Kmt(.y.w) Thought;

• acquired conceptual tools for distinguishing Kmt(.y.w) models of the self from Western philosophical and psychological frameworks;

• gained insight into how notions of destiny, morality, health, and social responsibility emerge from this multi-self conception;

• strengthened their capacity to apply Kmt(.y.w) theories of the person to contemporary research in philosophy, religion, psychology, healing, politics, and cultural studies.

Significance of the Lesson

Week 2.5 is pivotal within the Foundations of Kmt(.y.w) Thought sequence. It provides the anthropological and philosophical groundwork necessary for understanding later discussions of ethics, cosmology, healing systems, political order, and ancestral continuity. By centering the Kmt(.y.w) conception of the person, the lesson directly challenges reductionist and eurocentric models of the human being and reasserts Kmt(.y.w) intellectual sovereignty in defining what it means to be human.