African perspectives to the question of life's meaning. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Aribiah D. Attoe.
• Editors: Attoe, Aribiah D
• Contents: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">Introduction: African perspectives to the question of life’s meaning; Aribiah D. Attoe <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">1. The African vital force theory of meaning in life; Ada Agada <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">2. African theories of meaning in life: A critical assessment; Thaddeus Metz <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">3. A systematic account of African conceptions of the meaning of/in life; Aribiah D. Attoe <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">4. An African response to absurdism; Yoliswa Mlungwana <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">5. An African approach to the meaning of life; Yolanda Mlungwana <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">6. The traditional Yorùbá conception of a meaningful life; Oladele Abiodun Balogun <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">7. An Afrocentric conceptualisation of life and immortality of values: A critical investigation on the paranormal and human dignity in southern Africa; Felix Murove <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">8. Personhood and a meaningful life in African philosophy; Motsamai Molefe <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">9. Living as a person until death: An African ethical perspective on meaning in life; Charles Nkem Okolie <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">10. Situational ambivalence of the meaning of life in Yorùbá thought; Benjamin Timi Olujohungbe
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (140 pages)
• Subjects: 199.6; Philosophy, African; Life; Meaning (Philosophy)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000988574
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