Restoring Objective Morality: The Africonomics Refutation of Western Consequentialist Philosophies

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Restoring Objective Morality: The Africonomics Refutation of Western Consequentialist Philosophies

Manuel Tacanho

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24 November 2025

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Restoring Objective Morality: The Africonomics Refutation of Western Consequentialist Philosophies

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This paper examines and refutes the dominance of Western consequentialist philosophies—particularly utilitarianism, materialism, and positivism—that have shaped economics, the broader social sciences, and state policy across the modern world. These frameworks, based on outcome-based reasoning, are fundamentally flawed and dehumanizing. They reduce human beings to instruments of state or collective objectives, denying their inherent dignity, moral agency, and natural rights. Africonomics restores objective morality as the foundation of ethics and social sciences, grounding human action, social order, and governance in natural-moral law principles. By demonstrating that ethical capacity is intrinsic to human life, this paper reestablishes the inseparable unity between morality and civilization. It advances Africonomics as a human-centered, morally grounded alternative to the Western consequentialist and statist paradigm. By affirming the primacy of objective moral principles over expedient outcomes, Africonomics charts a path toward a truly civilized world rooted in respect for human dignity, liberty, and agency.

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Manuel Tacanho

Manuel Tacanho

Manuel Tacanho is a social philosopher and economist; and the founder and president of the Afrindependent Institute.

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