Love as the foundation of Ubuntu
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Tshivhase, Mpho
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Croatian Philosophical Society
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.
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Ubuntu, Love, Moral theory, Human interaction, Virtue ethics
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Tshivhase, M. 2018, 'Love as the foundation of Ubuntu', Synthesis Philosophica, vol. 65, pp. 197-208.