Title: Evolution, history and destiny : letters to Alain Locke (1886-1954) and others /
Authors: Washington, Johnny.
Publisher: Peter Lang,
Year: 2002
Subjects: African Americans Race identity; African Americans History; African Americans Social conditions; African American intellectuals.; Social evolution.; Human evolution.; Fate and fatalism.; African American philosophy.
Abstract: "Presented in an epistolary form addressed mainly to the African American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954), evolution, history and destiny constitute the main themes of this book. Destiny, the controlling theme, is defined as an ideal of transcendent unity toward which a people strives in successive generations. Destiny includes four modalities: the ethnic, the national, the world, and the cosmic. Destiny is both immanent and transcendent, the one pertaining to the actual world, the other, to the ideal world.