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This book is the first edited volume in the literature to concern itself, primarily, with the question of life's meaning from an African perspective. It was originally published as a special issue of
South African Journal of Philosophy.
Table des matières
Introduction: African perspectives to the question of life's meaning 1. The African vital force theory of meaning in life 2. African theories of meaning in life: A critical assessment 3. A systematic account of African conceptions of the meaning of/in life 4. An African response to absurdism 5. An African approach to the meaning of life 6. The traditional Yorùbá conception of a meaningful life 7. An Afrocentric conceptualisation of life and immortality of values: A critical investigation on the paranormal and human dignity in southern Africa 8. Personhood and a meaningful life in African philosophy 9. Living as a person until death: An African ethical perspective on meaning in life 10. Situational ambivalence of the meaning of life in Yorùbá thought
A propos de l'auteur
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.
