In African Vitalogy life and death are different modes of living

Evidence

The natural sciences (biology, chemistry, etc.) must be distinguished from vitalogy as a science of life lived and as a science of thought. While the natural sciences are developed in laboratories, vitalogy is developed in an academic surrounding. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 234 (#expands, via linked claim)

They understood that the meaning of life is connected, inextricably, to the meaning of death; that mourning is a romance in reverse, and if you love, you grieve and there are no exceptions—only those who do it well and those who don’t. — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 128 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The dead body becomes just another object among the world’s forms — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 2557; Western ontology and African vitalogy can engage in reciprocal dialogue; Vitalogy differs from natural sciences as a science of lived life — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 234 (+5 more)

Related

• Vitalogy differs from natural sciences as a science of lived life (similarity 0.90)
• The doctrine of Vital Force unites Western Being and African Life (similarity 0.84)
• African vitalogy treats death as spiritual renewal and progress in consciousness (similarity 0.83)
• Vitalogy differs from natural science because it studies lived life, not matter. (similarity 0.83)
• The dead body becomes just another object among the world’s forms (similarity 0.83)
• African thought roots all reflection in everyday lived culture (similarity 0.82)
• Birth and death are immanent extensions of life itself. (similarity 0.82)
• Vitalogy is the science of reflected life rooted in culture and everyday living. (similarity 0.81)
• Western ontology and African vitalogy can engage in reciprocal dialogue (similarity 0.81)
• African thought is the reflected science of lived life grounded in culture (similarity 0.81)
• The living-dead relationship parallels cells within a whole organism (similarity 0.81)
• Life and eternal life form the constant foundation of African thought (similarity 0.80)
• Life, not abstract Being, grounds African philosophical first principles. (similarity 0.80)
• Core intuitions about life persist across oral and written African thought (similarity 0.80)
• African vitalogy holds that no one truly dies; only change occurs (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Vitalogy differs from natural sciences as a science of lived life #expands (0.60) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 234
• Understanding death is essential to understanding life. #expands (0.50) — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 128
• The living-dead relationship parallels cells within a whole organism #exemplifies (0.40)
• The Black radical tradition originates in conserved African metaphysics transmitted as culture #expands (0.40)
• The colonized perceive life as permanent struggle against omnipresent death #contradicts (0.35) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 415