Transcendance et émergence chez Marcien TOWA

Abstract

In this work, we aim to show that transcendence is inherent in emergence, i.e. change is conditioned by the movement of transcendence. First of all, we agree with Towa that the identity that exists in Africa is closed to the criterion of specificity, which makes it ineffective for inventiveness and innovation. To this end, he thinks that identity must be given a generic approach, that is, a reconnection with reason and freedom as a criterion of humanity and processes to creation. This is amply recognizable in the double aspect of revolutionary iconoclasm and the insistence on the scientificity of philosophy. It becomes clear that identity is energized by creative action, which is what makes it pragmatic. In this way, it is important to know that the transcendence in Towa's conception is easily understood in the sense of modernity. Initially conceived as that which goes beyond the already there, the déjà vu, which means that. In Towa jargon, transcendence refers to permanence in scientific creativity. This remark inexorably endorses the fact that creativity gives a continuous meaning to the history of humanity: we leave the movement of "retro-jection" while attaching ourselves to that of projection. The emergence that we are looking for in Africa must be the subject of a material base, that is to say, one that provides the African land with the sophisticated infrastructures that will bring the continent towards a new equilibrium. However, we find that this epistemology of transcendence and emergence as traced by Towa encounters some limitations. Towa's forward march dismisses the participation of ethics and axiology while emphasizing the material power of Africa's emergence, we see that the Cameroonian philosopher westernizes himself in science, technique and technology and installs African tradition and religious verticality away from everything. we see that it recommends the restoration of the ancestral past and the preservation of the self which we find to be a movement with closed transcendence and consequently, it leads us straight to the utopia of emergence, we think that Towa's project of decolonization of Africa is programmed to fail because we cannot go and seize someone's secret and hope to fight the person to the point of competing with the latter, We discover that the material perspective. However, we believe that the realization of emergence in Africa does not only consist in the material perspective, it also gives itself the ethical-axiological perspective responsible for human action, the traditional and religious perspective of action, in order to allow the individual not to lose the balance between the spiritual and the material. We are therefore resolved to believe that this can pass well and be adopted by the remarkable contribution of traditional humanism, the movement of tradimodernity, the effort of naturoculturalism, the conscience of well being and conscience of well having, and having as priority the propension of the human security.