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SUMMARY:Ato Quayson: "The Genesis of Doubt: From Anton Wilhelm Amo to Ghana
 ’s Democracy"
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will adopt the life and work of Anton Wilhelm Amo 
 as the take-off point for reflecting on the genesis of doubt and its uses 
 in society and politics.  It will be shown through and interpretation of 
 various sources from philosophy and literature that doubt has many modes o
 f articulation\, partly in relation to established protocols of reasoning\
 , but also with respect to aesthetic objects and to shared communal values
 .  It will be shown that in philosophy doubt is elevated to a cardinal me
 thodological principle regarding the interrogation of premises\, and that 
 this interrogation forms the primary scaffolding for the construction of a
 rguments in all branches of the discipline.  In literature\, on the other
  hand\, doubt is expressed in relation to affect and consciousness\, the p
 rimary mode relating to the rejection of dominant norms of being in societ
 y. Examples for the argument will be drawn from Aristotle’s Poetics  
 and NIcomachean Ethics\, the Book of Job\, Shakespeare’s Hamlet\, Chi
 nua Achebe’s Arrow of God\, Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones are 
 Not Yet Born\, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved\, among various others.  Fi
 nally\, a foray will be made on speculations about the role of doubt in po
 litical discourse in Ghana.
X-ALT-DESC:<p>This lecture will adopt the life and work of Anton Wilhelm Am
 o as the take-off point for reflecting on the genesis of doubt and its use
 s in society and politics. &nbsp\;It will be shown through and interpretat
 ion of various sources from philosophy and literature that doubt has many 
 modes of articulation\, partly in relation to established protocols of rea
 soning\, but also with respect to aesthetic objects and to shared communal
  values. &nbsp\;It will be shown that in philosophy doubt is elevated to a
  cardinal methodological principle regarding the interrogation of premises
 \, and that this interrogation forms the primary scaffolding for the const
 ruction of arguments in all branches of the discipline. &nbsp\;In literatu
 re\, on the other hand\, doubt is expressed in relation to affect and cons
 ciousness\, the primary mode relating to the rejection of dominant norms o
 f being in society. Examples for the argument will be drawn from Aristotle
 ’s&nbsp\;Poetics&nbsp\;&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;NIcomachean Ethics\, the&nbsp\;B
 ook of Job\, Shakespeare’s&nbsp\;Hamlet\, Chinua Achebe’s&nbsp\;Arrow 
 of God\, Ayi Kwei Armah’s&nbsp\;The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born\, an
 d Toni Morrison’s&nbsp\;Beloved\, among various others. &nbsp\;Finally\,
  a foray will be made on speculations about the role of doubt in political
  discourse in Ghana.</p>
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