1st Edition
African Perspectives to the Question of Life's Meaning
This insightful book is the first edited book volume in the literature to concern itself, primarily, with the question of life’s meaning from the, largely under-explored, African perspective.
In this collection, the authors have undertaken to answer this question, and other related questions, by showing some of the possible conceptions of life’s meaning that can be derived from traditional African perspectives.
African Perspectives to the Question of Life's Meaning will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of philosophy, African studies, psychology, and religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of South African Journal of Philosophy.
Introduction: African perspectives to the question of life’s meaning
Aribiah D. Attoe
1. The African vital force theory of meaning in life
Ada Agada
2. African theories of meaning in life: A critical assessment
Thaddeus Metz
3. A systematic account of African conceptions of the meaning of/in life
Aribiah D. Attoe
4. An African response to absurdism
Yoliswa Mlungwana
5. An African approach to the meaning of life
Yolanda Mlungwana
6. The traditional Yorùbá conception of a meaningful life
Oladele Abiodun Balogun
7. An Afrocentric conceptualisation of life and immortality of values: A critical investigation on the paranormal and human dignity in southern Africa
Felix Murove
8. Personhood and a meaningful life in African philosophy
Motsamai Molefe
9. Living as a person until death: An African ethical perspective on meaning in life
Charles Nkem Okolie
10. Situational ambivalence of the meaning of life in Yorùbá thought
Benjamin Timi Olujohungbe
Biography
Aribiah D. Attoe is Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and a member of the prestigious Conversational School of Philosophy. His interests include: African Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, and Social and Political Philosophy. He is currently working on his forthcoming book The Question of Life’s Meaning: An African Perspective.
