Attoe The Question of Life's Meaning

An African Perspective
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-41842-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 203 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

In answering the question of life’s meaning, the African perspective is only just beginning to emerge. While this is true, a critical examination of African theories of meaningfulness, the possibility of life’s meaninglessness, as well as ideas about the proper mode/mood for living with the meaninglessness of life are largely underexplored within the African philosophical tradition. This book provides several plausible accounts of meaning in/of life from an African perspective, examines the relationship between death and life’s meaningfulness, and explores the possibility of life’s meaninglessness, proposing the “philosophy of indifference” as the proper mode/mood for living with the meaninglessness of life.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Attoe, Aribiah David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Laying the Groundwork.- 1.   Introduction.- 2. Understanding “Meaning”.- 3. African Metaphysical Thought: What We Mean and Why It Is Important.-  Part II. African Conceptions of Meaning in Life.- 4. Some Traditional African Conceptions of Meaning in Life.- 5. Rejecting the Obsolete.- 6. Accounts of Life’s Meaningfulness from a Contemporary African Perspective.- 7. Passionate Yearning Theory as a Theory of Meaning in Life.- Part III. The Meaning(lessness) of Life.- 8. A “Concept” of the Meaning of Life.- 9. Death and Meaninglessness.- Part IV.   Living with Meaninglessness.- 10. The Path of Meaninglessness: Beyond Ada Agada’s Consolationism.- 11. The Philosophy of Indifference: An Introduction.- 12. Indifference and the Future of Human Existence: Towards an Anti-Natalist Destiny and Specie Suicide?.- 13. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Aribiah David Attoe  is a Lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand and a member of the prestigious Conversational School of Philosophy.