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`The best of all possible worlds´?: The creation of a world in William E. Mkufya´s Ziraili na Zirani

The German philosopher and mathematican Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, maintained that this world god created was the best of all possible worlds. God could not have created a world that would contain a contradiction. In Descartes`opossed view, it was possible for God to create a world containing contradictions. The two philosophers`s dispute concerned the issue of what is it that is necessary, as opossed to that which is arbitrary, in a created world. Against this background, I would like to discuss William E. Mkufya`s novel, Ziraili na Zirani.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:11686
Date30 November 2012
CreatorsRettová, Alena
ContributorsSOAS, University of London, Universität Mainz
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text
SourceSwahili Forum; 12(2005), S. 15-24
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relationurn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-94062, qucosa:11593

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