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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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