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A postfoundational ubuntu accepts the unwelcomed (by way of �process� transversality)
- Source :
- Verbum et Ecclesia, Vol 38, Iss 3, Pp 79-91 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- AOSIS, 2017.
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Abstract
- This examination of ubuntu is engaged in a conversation with the speculative philosophy of organism (�process�) to acquire an extended tool by which to engage within its ontology the widest possible range of human interaction. The engagement by ubuntu�s relational doctrine of the speculative philosophical cosmology of A.N. Whitehead placed portions of the latter�s constructs at the service of ubuntu�s transversal capacity to examine and apply the deepest understanding of its own etymology. It has been a challenge to understand occasions of injustice and suffering which have manifested within the same African culture which has given to the world the language and concept of ubuntu. It has been commonplace to isolate the utopian relational ontology implicit in the aphorism from occasions of the worst of human nature. It was the premise of this study that an understanding of an ubuntu which excludes dystopian occasions has done a disservice to the breadth, depth and height of what is to be fully human � including occasions of suffering and anti-social behaviours.
Details
- Language :
- Afrikaans, German, English, Dutch; Flemish
- ISSN :
- 16099982 and 20747705
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Verbum et Ecclesia
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.3ba66ff7a466391bdf9dca700022e
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4102/ve.v38i3.1556