1st Edition

African Ethics and Death Moral Status and Human Dignity in Ubuntu Thinking

By Motsamai Molefe, Elphus Muade Copyright 2024
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyzes the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death. The book first challenges the criticism and rejection of moral status in African philosophy and then continues to consider how moral personhood is defined in African ethical theories, investigating which entities have full moral status or moral... Read more

Part 1: African Moral Philosophy

Chapter 1: Introduction to Moral Status and Death in African Ethics 

Chapter 2: A Defence of Moral Status in African Philosophy

Chapter 3: Ubuntu Ethics, ubuntu and Moral Status

Chapter 4: Ubuntu, Empathy and Moral Status 

Part 2: African Applied Ethics

Chapter 5: Ubuntu Ethics and Voluntary Euthanasia

Chapter 6: Ubuntu Ethics and the Moral Status of Dead Human Bodies

Biography

Motsamai Molefe is Senior Researcher, Centre for Leadership Ethics in Africa (CLEA), University of Fort Hare, South Africa, and Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Philosophy.

Elphus Muade is an expert in medical ethics, medical law, environmental ethics, and bioethics with a PhD from the University of Kwazulu–Natal, South Africa. He is currently doing his post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Leadership Ethics in Africa, University of Fort Hare.