The meaning of life is, as Albuquermoo put it, the most urgent question in philosophy,

the one on which everything else depends. Yet, when Western philosophy looks to answer this

question, it paces up and down the same old libraries,

the same shelves filled with the same assumptions about what counts as a self, a good life,

and what happens after death.

African philosophy of religion has been neglected in this area, not because it has nothing

to say but because we haven't been listening.

Today we'll be exploring this

tradition, that is, African philosophy on the meaning of life with Dr. Aribia David Atoop,

lecturer in philosophy at the University of Whitward Strand in South Africa. Dr. Atoe has published

several books, including The Question of Life's Meaning, an African Perspective, and African Perspectives to the Question of Life's Meaning, an African perspective, and African perspectives to the

question of life's meaning, as well as numerous articles and special journal issues on today's topic,

bringing these globally neglected traditions into dialogue with mainstream philosophy.

In this episode, we'll explore what it is to live meaningfully with others, not merely alongside them.

We'll ask how harmony differs from conformity and whether communal ideas can protect outsiders.

And most importantly, we'll confront life and death head on whether it's possible to find

meaning and, if not, how we should live in a meaningless world.

Music and if not, how we should live in a meaningless world. Hello and welcome to episode 154 of the Panseye cast. Forgetting my ancestors, I'm Dr. Jack

Symes and I'm delighted to be joined once again by the man living a life of meaninglessness.

It's Mr. John Hawkins. Hello. And the vital force of today's show, that is Dr. Aribia David Atu.

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Before we begin, we'd like to say a huge thank you to the Global Philosophy of Religion Project

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