Moanan-Tongan fatongia and deontic in Greco-Rome : Fiefia, happiness, of tauÄ#x93 ; langi, climactic euphoria, and â#x80 ; #x98 ; alaha kakala, permeating fragrance - MÄ#x81 ; lie! Bravo!
"This dissertation discusses some logical premises or propositions of two themes with their conclusion regarding the traditional Moanan-Tongan fatongia, obligation, and its relation to ancient Greco-Roman deontic, obligation. The premise of the first theme considers fatongia as a worldview, philosophia or weltanschauung, which is embedded in human fundamental values and behaviors like justice, dykaisyn or faitotonu, and democracy, demoskratos or puleâ#x80;#x99;aetokolahi. With the premise of the second theme, it considers fatongia with its specific aim, siate, of fiefia as embedded in human fundamental values and behaviours. The logical conclusion therefore of these two themes with their premises asserts that fatongia as a worldview with its siate of fiefia is implanted in human fundamental values and behaviours. Such a conclusion is philosophically and logically taken as the â#x80;#x98;main argumentâ#x80;#x99; of this dissertation on the scientific and logical grounds of generalization and deductive-inductive method. So the overall focus then is to scientifically find out and uncover the interrelated facts in Moanan-Tongan and Greco-Roman contexts that can support the two given premises and their conclusion with its main argument. Overall, fiefia is viewed as a psychological and emotional product arising from delivering a particular fatongia, in fair and symmetrical manners, and vice-versa. Moanan-Tongan fatongia as a worldview is metaphorically and aesthetically considered as a social, moral, political, economic or cultural phenomenon that aims to produce fiefia in its divine finale of tauÄ#x93;langi, climactic euphoria, and â#x80;#x98;alaha kakala, permeating fragrance. Fiefia is symbolically and artistically equated by Tongans to the psychological and emotional state of attaining the divine climax of tauÄ#x93;langi, and â#x80;#x98;alaha kakala. (...)"--Abstract
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2011
Australian Catholic University, Watson, ACT, 2011