African Perspectives To The Question Of Life S Meaning

Author : Aribiah D. Attoe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000988574

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African Perspectives to the Question of Life's Meaning by Aribiah D. Attoe Pdf

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.

Author : Aribiah D. Attoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Life
ISBN : 3031418441

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The Question of Life's Meaning by Aribiah D. Attoe Pdf

"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." --

Author : Aribiah David Attoe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031418426

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The Question of Life's Meaning by Aribiah David Attoe Pdf

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.

Author : Fainos Mangena,Jonathan O. Chimakonam
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781622732623

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The Death Penalty from an African Perspective by Fainos Mangena,Jonathan O. Chimakonam Pdf

This book is about an African philosophical examination of the death penalty debate. In a 21st century world where the notion of human right is primed, this book considers the question of the death penalty in two sub-Saharan African countries namely, Zimbabwe and Nigeria, notorious for their poor human right records. This edited collection comprises of 11 essays from Zimbabwean and Nigerian philosophers. As opinions continue to divide over the retention or abolition of the death penalty, these African philosophers attempt to localise this debate by raising the following questions: What is the meaning of life in the African place? Is it proper to take the human life under any guise at all? Who has the right to take the human life? Can the death penalty be justified on the bases of African cultures? Why should it be abolished? Why should it be retained? Indeed, this book is the first of its kind to engage the tumultuous issue of capital punishment in the postcolonial Africa and from the African philosophical point of view.

Author : Aribiah David Attoe,Segun Samuel Temitope,Victor Nweke,John Umezurike,Jonathan Okeke Chimakonam
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031361630

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Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence by Aribiah David Attoe,Segun Samuel Temitope,Victor Nweke,John Umezurike,Jonathan Okeke Chimakonam Pdf

This book offers a first glimpse into contemporary African Philosophical thought, which covers issues related to the mind-body relationships, the problem of consciousness, the ethics of artificial intelligence, the meaning of life and other topics. Taking inspiration from the conversational tradition in African philosophy, this book not only engages with and takes inspiration from traditional African thought, but also engages with philosophical views outside the philosophical tradition in a bid to present a holistic understanding of the problems that are central to the book. The volume is relevant for professional African philosophers, philosophers of mind, philosophers of AI, undergraduate and postgraduate philosophy students, and African Studies scholars.

Author : Elvis Imafidon,Mpho Tshivhase,Björn Freter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031251498

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Handbook of African Philosophy by Elvis Imafidon,Mpho Tshivhase,Björn Freter Pdf

This Handbook provides in one volume rich, comprehensive and rigorous coverage of specific subject areas and thematic concerns in the ever-evolving academic discipline of African philosophy. This Handbook is unique in its focus on central and emerging areas within African philosophy such as Afro-communitarian philosophy, ethics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, existentialism, philosophy of religion, gender philosophy, philosophy of education, phenomenology, transhumanism, African philosophy futures, and philosophy of the non-human. The thirty-two chapters in this Handbook explore the rich textual and non-textual forms of philosophical knowledge in Africa and adequately represent the broad and diverse scope of African philosophy, showing the richness and depth of the philosophical tradition. This reference work is indispensable to students and researchers in African philosophy, comparative philosophy and world philosophies.

Author : Richard J. Gehman
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 9966253548

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African Traditional Religion in Biblical Perspective by Richard J. Gehman Pdf

Author : John Valk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030824914

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Worldviews by John Valk Pdf

This book investigates the concept of worldview, in its numerous aspects, and how worldviews impact, shape, and influence individuals, communities, societies, and cultures. It explores various worldviews—religious, spiritual, and secular—using a comprehensive approach to highlight their breadth, depth, and scope. John Valk argues that everyone has a worldview, and that worldview is often shaped and influenced by individual circumstances and situations. While worldviews have similar structures to one another, they vary in content, including differences in metanarratives, teachings, ethics, and more. In the course of explaining how worldviews respond to life’s ultimate and existential challenges, the book poses ontological questions to highlight various (world)views on the nature of being and the human, and epistemological questions pertaining to sources of knowledge and certainty. Inviting readers to reflect on their own worldviews as they explore the worldviews of others, Valk also reveals how certain universal worldview beliefs are interpreted in particular contexts.

Author : John S. Mbiti
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0435895915

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African Religions & Philosophy by John S. Mbiti Pdf

"African Religions and Philosophy" is a systematic study of the attitudes of mind and belief that have evolved in the many societies of Africa. In this second edition, Dr Mbiti has updated his material to include the involvement of women in religion, and the potential unity to be found in what was once thought to be a mass of quite separate religions. Mbiti adds a new dimension to the understanding of the history, thinking, and life throughout the African continent. Religion is approached from an African point of view but is as accessible to readers who belong to non-African societies as it is to those who have grown up in African nations. Since its first publication, this book has become acknowledged as the standard work in the field of study, and it is essential reading for anyone concerned with African religion, history, philosophy, anthropology or general African studies.

Author : Helen Lauer,Kofi Anyidoho
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9789988647339

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Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives by Helen Lauer,Kofi Anyidoho Pdf

This compilation was inspired by an international symposium held on the Legon campus in September 2003. Hosted by the CODESRIA African Humanities Institute Programme, the symposium had the theme 'Canonical Works and Continuing Innovation in African Arts & Humanities'.

Author : Joseph Ogbonnaya
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443891592

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African Perspectives on Culture and World Christianity by Joseph Ogbonnaya Pdf

Unlike the global North, “the ferment of Christianity” in the global South, among the majority of world people, has been astronomical. Despite the shift in the center of gravity of Christianity to the global South, intra-ecclesial tensions globally remain those of the relationship of culture to religion. The questions posed revolve around to what extent Western Christianity should be adapted to local cultures. Should we talk of Christianity in non-Western contexts or of majority world Christianity? Is it appropriate to describe the shift as the emergence of global Christianity or world Christianity? Should Christianity in the global South mimic Christianity in the global North, or can it be different in the light of the diversity of these cultures? Can Africans, Asians, Latin Americans, Europeans and North Americans – the entire global community – speak of God in the same way? This book is devoted to examining varieties of the intercultural process in world Christianity. It understands culture broadly as a common meaning upon which communities’ social order is organized. Culture in this sense is the whole life of people. It is the integrator of the filial bond holding people together and the various institutional structures – economic, technological, political and legal – that guarantee peace and survival in societies, states, and nations, both locally and internationally. As this book shows, the centrality of culture for world Christianity equally showcases the important position the scale of values occupies in world Christianity.

Author : Cletus N. Chukwu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015058715270

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Introduction to Philosophy in an African Perspective by Cletus N. Chukwu Pdf

Author : Daniel Patte
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666734836

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The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Volume One by Daniel Patte Pdf

The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity is an authoritative reference guide that enables students, their teachers, Christian clergy, and general readers alike to reflect critically upon all aspects of Christianity from its origins to the present day. Written by a team of 828 scholars and practitioners from around the world, the volume reflects the plurality of Christianity throughout its history. Key features of The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity: •Provides a survey of the history of Christianity in the world, on each continent, and in each nation •Offers a presentation of the Christian beliefs and practices of all major Christian traditions •Highlights the different understandings of Christian beliefs and practices in different historical, cultural, religious, denominational, and secular contexts •Includes entries on methodology and the plurality of approaches that are used in the study of Christianity •Respects each Christian tradition by providing self-presentations of Christianity in each country or Christian tradition •Includes clusters of entries on beliefs and practices, each examining the understanding of a given Christian belief or practice in different historical and contemporary contexts •Presents the relationship and interaction of Christianity with other religious traditions in the world •Provides, on a Web site (http://hdl.handle.net/1803/3906), a full bibliography covering all topics discussed in the signed articles of this volume

Author : Daniel Patte
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 1420 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532689437

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The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Two Volume Set by Daniel Patte Pdf

The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity is an authoritative reference guide that enables students, their teachers, Christian clergy, and general readers alike to reflect critically upon all aspects of Christianity from its origins to the present day. Written by a team of 828 scholars and practitioners from around the world, the volume reflects the plurality of Christianity throughout its history. Key features of The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity: •Provides a survey of the history of Christianity in the world, on each continent, and in each nation •Offers a presentation of the Christian beliefs and practices of all major Christian traditions •Highlights the different understandings of Christian beliefs and practices in different historical, cultural, religious, denominational, and secular contexts •Includes entries on methodology and the plurality of approaches that are used in the study of Christianity •Respects each Christian tradition by providing self-presentations of Christianity in each country or Christian tradition •Includes clusters of entries on beliefs and practices, each examining the understanding of a given Christian belief or practice in different historical and contemporary contexts •Presents the relationship and interaction of Christianity with other religious traditions in the world •Provides, on a Web site (http://hdl.handle.net/1803/3906), a full bibliography covering all topics discussed in the signed articles of this volume

Author : Alloy Ihuah
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783346493873

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Personhood in African Philosophy by Alloy Ihuah Pdf

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Sonstiges, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This study is concerned with the question of personhood in African Philosophy. Studies in Intercultural Philosophies have shown that communal intimate belongingness is mostly limited to a micro community more than the totality of a larger African community. Within the context of this communal living, some African scholars have argued that an individual owns no personality, and only becomes a person through social and ritual incorporation. These scholars have argued from this premise that personhood is a quality acquired as one gets older. This mode of thinking not only ignores the essentials of personhood, namely, self-determination and the rights of the individual, it exposes the overbearing mode of the community and scuttles the inherent freedom and primacy of the individual thought and his right to question communal ideas. We may agree that a youth has a different point of view from that of an older individual, though we affirm on the contrary that both are defined by the quality of personhood. African wisdom literature upholds that life in its existential meaning is human fellowship and solidarity among individuals though, the rights of individual persons and freedom of self-expression within the communities are not in doubt. We argue the conclusion that while communal ethos matures the individual in the community, such conclusion does not have ontological and epistemological precedence over individual persons. In his lone level, the individual experiences varying modes of competing epistemologies that activates his moral arsenals to evaluate, protest, distance and effect reform on some features of the community to ingratiate his widely varying needs and interests.