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By Okorie Onwuchekwa
The critical question on being or reality is a fundamental one in the history of thought. Right from the ancient period of the history of philosophy,Ontology(which is the study of Being precisely as being) has been pre-occupied withunraeling the meaning and true ocation of being.!onsequently,arious reactionsor interpretations has been gien by arious Ontologists as the true meaning or ocation for being. But one common denominator from ancient ontology is that being is an ob"ect with fi#ed attributes. This idea of ob"ectification of being limitsthe understanding of being and ma$es it to encounter different $inds of opposition.The opposition encountered by being as a result of its mis-representation byancient ontology has a lin$ with man%s totalitarian tendencies. This paper aims attracing the origin of the mis-representation of being by ancient ontology and to
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e#plain how they are responsible for the attitude of rigidity and totalitarianismcharacteristics of man$ind