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Title: | Ubuntu: New Model of Global Justice? |
Author: | Ngoenha, Severino Elias |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 125-134 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa Africa |
Subjects: | philosophy globalization social justice Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) Economics and Trade Law, Human Rights and Violence |
Abstract: | Ultra-liberalism and globalization are carried by large international economic organizations. Since the second half of the twentieth century, they have been the vectors of an increasing injustice and have widened inequalities between rich and poor countries, between North and South. These three meta-narratives - ultra-liberalism, globalization and (in)justice - mobilize a growing number of intellectuals. The main question is: can liberalism achieve a planetary justice, and, if the answer is no, which alternative model can one think of? Through the concept of Ubuntu (restorative justice), South Africa and African philosophy contribute, in terms of practices and theory, to the debate in political philosophy in which justice is central. In theorizing the concept of Ubuntu, African philosophy could bring the first important contribution of the African continent to the philosophical - or multi-field - debate, which largely exceeds the African dimension. By recalling the history and bonds between Afro-Americans and the South African Renaissance, this text develops the concept of Ubuntu and suggests how this concept makes it possible to weave - or reweave - relations at the planetary level rather than deepen wounds. By exceeding the concept of punitive justice, we can imagine globalization not as an economic apartheid but as a world made of the recognition of one humanity equal in dignity. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |