Ancient Hawai I Essay

The metaphysics of ancient Hawai’i are unique and reflect metaphysics of both dualistic and monistic ways of thinking. As I address that theory in this paper I will be comparing and contrasting the difference in the Western philosophies of Plato to that of old Hawai’i before the coming of the Christians missionaries in 1820. I will also explain the ways in which I found ancient Hawaiians were also similar to Eastern monistic ways of thinking. In both cases, Hawai’i seems to be unique because it doesn’t fit neatly into either philosophical way of thinking. I will also show why I believe the ancient Hawaiians had a dualistic way of thinking in a monistic world. This seems to be the simplest terms I can explain my theory. This reminds me …show more content…
The reason this is unique is because in Plato’s dualism metaphysics he believed in a natural world and a spiritual realm, which did not interrelate together. A very clear example of this is in Plato’s, “The Allegory of the Cave”. But the reason this is unique is because it doesn’t exactly match that of monistic thinking because there appears to be an invisible paralleling and unseen spiritual universe inside the ancient Hawaiian process oriented monistic universe. There is a great explanation in the book Kū Kanaka as to where these invisible Heavens and Gods …show more content…
Whenever events happen in such a world, they happen not because they are causally related but because they are interrelated. (Kū Kanaka) This sounds strikingly similar to that of philosopher Fritjof Capra who asserted, “in the absolute there is neither time, space, nor causation.” To me, this is also similar to that of Eastern monistic metaphysics of the Yijing in which the yang-yin are complimentary opposites in a process driven