In Vitalogy life and being each decline into primary modes

Evidence

Life is declined in many ways, the first of which is Being as Living, while Being is declined in various ways, the first of which is Reason. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 299

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: A compact technical formulation: Being is primarily Living, and Being retains Reason as its first declension.

Related

• Being is declinable, its first mode being reason under life (similarity 0.92)
• Vitalogy differs from natural science because it studies lived life, not matter. (similarity 0.83)
• In Vitalogy, being reduces first to living, and being itself reduces first to reason. (similarity 0.82)
• Vitalogy is the science of reflected life rooted in culture and everyday living. (similarity 0.82)
• Vitalogy differs from natural sciences as a science of lived life (similarity 0.82)
• Life, not abstract Being, grounds African philosophical first principles. (similarity 0.81)
• Life is the single enduring reality underlying all thought and beings. (similarity 0.80)
• Being human means being a vital force striving for full development (similarity 0.80)
• The doctrine of Vital Force unites Western Being and African Life (similarity 0.79)
• In African Vitalogy life and death are different modes of living (similarity 0.79)