1st Edition
Ubuntu Ethics Human Dignity, Moral Perfectionism, and Needs
By Motsamai Molefe
Copyright 2025
106 Pages
by
Routledge
106 Pages
by
Routledge
106 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction to Ubuntu ethics
1. Ubuntu Ethics, Umuntu and Human Dignity
2. Ubuntu Ethics, ubuntu and Human Dignity
3. Ubuntu Ethics and Politics
Biography
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).
