Ubuntu Ethics: Human Dignity, Moral Perfectionism, and Needs

by Motsamai Molefe

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 goes on to consider the role of virtue ethics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032846348
• ISBN13: 9781032846347
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"