A Moral Theory of Liveliness

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A Moral Theory of Liveliness is written by Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Research Associate in Philosophy Kirk Lougheed and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197781985 (ISBN 10) and 9780197781982 (ISBN 13).

The book is about providing a novel African moral theory; this means it provides a theory about what actions are permissible or impermissible. It does this by mining descriptive works of an African indigenous concept called life force. The book shows that there is a plausible way to secularise life force so the theory does not have to be inherently religious. The author argues that the theory does better at explaining various intuitions and hard cases than utilitarianism and other African moral theories like those that focus on personhood or relational harmony. It also contains a substantial section on metaethics which is about what grounds morality.