A West - Journal of business Ethics, 2014 - Springer
Abstract The African philosophy of Ubuntu is typically characterised as a communitarian philosophy that emphasises virtues such as compassion, tolerance and harmony. In recent …
T Metz, JBR Gaie - Journal of moral education, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
In this article we provide a theoretical reconstruction of sub‐Saharan ethics that we argue is a strong competitor to typical Western approaches to morality. According to our African moral …
B Matolino, W Kwindingwi - South African Journal of Philosophy, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Since the advent of democracy in South Africa, there has been a concerted effort at reviving the notion of ubuntu. Variously conceived, it is seen as the authentic African ethical concept …
T Metz - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2012 - Springer
The dominant conceptions of moral status in the English-speaking literature are either holist or individualist, neither of which accounts well for widespread judgments that: animals and …
P Higgs - Educational philosophy and theory, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The liberation of Africa and its peoples from centuries of racially discriminatory colonial rule and domination has far‐reaching implications for educational thought and practice. The …
This ground-breaking and innovative textbook offers a uniquely global approach to the study of social psychology. Inclusive and outward-looking, the authors consciously re-orientate the …
R Dolamo - Scriptura: Journal for Contextual Hermeneutics in …, 2013 - journals.co.za
The tenets of botho/ubuntu analysed in this article demonstrate the interplay between individuals and their respective communities. A thorough but not exhaustive definition and …
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the ethics of our treatment of animals. Philosophers have led the way, and now a range of other scholars have followed, from …
Many human rights theorists, moral philosophers and jurisprudential scholars believe that the reason why human beings are morally so important is that they have a dignity. To have a …