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https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33112

Love as the Foundation of Ubuntu

Mpho Tshivhase ; University of Pretoria, Faculty of Humanities, Lynnwood Road, Hillcrest, ZA–0081 Pretoria


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Abstract

Ubuntu is widely understood as a moral theory with a scope that is wide enough to explain what counts as the right kind of human behaviour as well as what it means to be a person. Understood in its basic form, Ubuntu is a relational theory about human interaction wherein its main focus could be argued to be a matter of living with raw awareness of the interdependence necessary among people – a kind of interdependence that enables communities to remain united. Herein I want to turn the attention to the meta-ethical analysis of Ubuntu, wherein I explore the possibility of love as a foundation for Ubuntu. What is interesting about Ubuntu in this meta-ethical sense is not the kind of behaviour it inspires in people, but the kind of virtue that sits at its very foundation.

Keywords

Ubuntu; love; moral theory; human interaction; virtue ethics

Hrčak ID:

219849

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/219849

Publication date:

6.11.2018.

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