Ubuntu Ethics

Human Dignity, Moral Perfectionism, and Needs
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-84634-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 106 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 278 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in African Philosophy

This book provides a philosophical exposition of Ubuntu ethics, which it does by explaining the saying ‘a person is a person through other persons’. Written by one of the world’s leading scholars of African philosophy, the book first argues that the focus on umuntu (or, a person) in Ubuntu ethics as intrinsically valuable makes ethical humanism and human dignity vitally important. The book then goes on to consider the role of virtue ethics in driving an ideal of moral perfectionism. This, in turn, provides the basis for what a good society should be: a needs-based political theory. Providing an important guide through Ubuntu ethics as a moral system constructed in terms of moral perfectionism, it will be an important read for researchers of African philosophy, and of the philosophy of virtue ethics and moral perfectionism more generally.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to Ubuntu ethics  1. Ubuntu Ethics, Umuntu and Human Dignity  2. Ubuntu Ethics, ubuntu and Human Dignity  3. Ubuntu Ethics and Politics

Über Autor(innen)

Motsamai Molefe is an Associate Professor, University of South Africa, Graduate School of Business Leadership, South Africa. He specialises in African philosophy, Ethics, and Governance. He serves as the Chair of Department: Inter-Africa Trade and Investment. He is the Editor-in-chief of the South African Journal of Philosophy. His recent co-authored book African Ethics and Death: Moral Status and Human Dignity in Ubuntu Thinking (Routledge, 2023) and co-edited book Human Dignity in an African Context (Palgrave, 2023).