- 140 pages
- English
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African Perspectives to the Question of Life's Meaning
About this book
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.
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Yes, you can access African Perspectives to the Question of Life's Meaning by Aribiah D. Attoe in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Filosofía & Existencialismo en filosofía. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- 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
- Index