Abstract
Supposing that an African metaphysics grounded on
the notion and/or value of vitality is true, can it do a
better job in terms of informing an African religious
ethics than its Western counterparts, specifically, the
Divine Command theory (DCT)? By ‘religious ethics’,
in this article, I have in a mind a meta-ethical theory
i.e., an account of moral properties whether they
are best understood in spiritual rather than physical
terms. In this article, I articulate an under-explored
African meta-ethical theory grounded on vitality, and
I argue that the Euthyphro problem is not a successful
objection against it like it is usually thought to be for
DCT. This relative advantage of the vitalist meta-ethics
does not necessarily render it plausible, but it gives us
some ground to seriously consider the future of African
religious ethics grounded on it.