Epistemic Inquiry into African(Igbo)Philosophy of Death

• 作者: Raphael Olisa Maduabuchi Stephen Chijioke Chukwujekwu
• 来源期刊: 哲学研究:英文版
• 学科: 数学
• 关键词: IGBO AFRICANS ANCESTORS SPIRITUAL physical and existence
• 年，卷（期）: zxyjywb_2019,（6）
• 页码范围: 362-366
• 页数: 5页
• 分类号: O17

摘要

This paper sought to examine Igbo philosophy of death as an essential feature for authentic human existence in Africa.Death is a mystery which defies human understanding.No wonder,existentialist philosophers conceive death as the facticity of human existence.Different cultures have undertaken to unravel the mystery of death.Hence,African nay Igbo conceives death as a transition of human beings from this physical world of the living to the world of the spirit.The invisible world of the spirit is a place where our revered ancestors live.The second burial rites are performed to gravitate the dead to ancestral world of spirit.African metaphysical assumptions of death and life after death are therefore subjected to critical examination.