1st Edition
African Perspectives to the Question of Life's Meaning
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.
