Podcast: Philosopher's Zone (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Philosophy in a nutshell pt 5: Ubuntu
Pub date: 2020-11-01

Ubuntu is an African tradition of thought whose ethical orientation is captured in the well-known aphorism “I am, because we are”. But what gets lost when Ubuntu is framed as a philosophical discourse in the Western intellectual tradition? And where do we see its successes and failures in the reconstruction of post-colonial Africa?

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