Ubuntu Ethics -  Motsamai Molefe

Ubuntu Ethics

Human Dignity, Moral Perfectionism, and Needs
Buch | Hardcover
98 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-84634-7 (ISBN)
62,30 inkl. MwSt
This book provides a philosophical exposition of Ubuntu ethics, which is grounded in the understanding that ‘a person is a person through other persons’. The book will be an important read for researchers of African philosophy, and of the philosophy of virtue ethics and moral perfectionism more generally.
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.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in African Philosophy
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 353 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10 1-032-84634-8 / 1032846348
ISBN-13 978-1-032-84634-7 / 9781032846347
Zustand Neuware
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