DOI: 10.36344/ccijhss.2018.v04i04.006

Pages: 69-74

Unlike German Idealism whose intellectual development from Kant to Schopenhauer, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, and the Frankfurt school produced the dialectic, Marxist materialism, Nietzscheian antidialectics, phenomenology, and deontological ethics; Haitian Idealism produces phenomenology, materialism, and an antidialectical process to history enframed by a reciprocal justice as its normative ethics, which is constantly being invoked by individual social actors to reconcile the noumenal (sacred—ideational) and phenomenal (profane—material) subjective world in order to maintain balance and harmony between the two so that the human actors can live freely and happily in a material resource framework where they are the masters of their own existence without masters or owners of production. The originating moments of the Haitian Revolution and its call for total freedom and equality demonstrates the antidialectical and normative processes of Haitian idealism, while the creation of the phenomenal world of subjective experiences according to one’s capacity, modality, developmental stage (both spiritual, physical, and mental), and spiritual court is symptomatic of the phenomenological development in Haitian Idealism and its Vodou Ethic and spirit of communism and Lakou system as its form of social and system integration, respectively. This work explores the underlying distinction between German idealism and Haitian idealism as encapsulated in its culmination, i.e., the Lakou system.