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    Spiritual messages received through mystical encounters i... — Carmelics
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    Spiritual messages received through mystical encounters in traditional African religion are insufficient to constitute an adequate basis for a coherent ethical system.

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    • 1.Spiritual messages may be received by practitioners of traditional African religion through mystical encounters.
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    • 2.Some of those messages may relate to moral conduct.
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    • 3.Such messages are too few and far between to form a coherent ethical system.
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    • 1.Traditional African ethical systems like Ubuntu are grounded in communal ontology and ancestral wisdom, not isolated mystical episodes.
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    • 2.Wiredu and Gyekye demonstrate that African ethics derives coherent normative principles from structured social relationships, not frequency of revelation.
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    • 3.The criterion of 'frequency' misunderstands how foundational moral frameworks function—Western deontology also derives from sparse originary sources like the categorical imperative.
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    • 1.William Alston's epistemic defense of mystical perception establishes that religious experience can yield justified beliefs with the same reliability as ordinary sense perception.
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    • 2.If even sparse but epistemically reliable moral testimony from divine sources can ground obligations, the 'too few' objection conflates quantity of revelation with normative sufficiency.
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    I define spirituality as a heightened form of religiosity reached by certain individuals in the community who have, or claim to have, mystical contacts with the supernatural, the divine. It would be correct to assert, however, that the encounters are the results, rather than the sources, of religion in Africa in the traditional setting. And, even though ‘spiritual messages’ may be received by the practitioners of traditional African religion through those mystical encounters part of which (‘mess
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