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The Philosophy of Ubuntu and the Origins of Democracy

Author : Jeroen Zandberg
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445282348
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Ubuntu and the Origins of Democracy written by Jeroen Zandberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the African philosophy of Ubuntu and uses the latest scientific insights into human nature to show how to understand the human condition and best organize societyThe philosophy of Ubuntu states that people are by nature directed at others and that they can only be fully human when they are recognized by others. Ubuntu therefore provides for the best possible solution for the social contract theory. In Western and Eastern philosophy all connections are imposed from the outside causing a chicken-and-the-egg problem with social contract theories. These theories state that individuals enter an agreement with each other in order to live together. Unfortunately a contract can only have value if there is already a morality present but in both Western and Eastern philosophy this morality is not innately present making it impossible to ever come to a contract. This problem is not present with Ubuntu because there is an innate tendency to recognize others as part of the Self

Ubuntu

Author : Mfuniselwa John Bhengu
Publisher : Novalis Press (ZA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ubuntu written by Mfuniselwa John Bhengu and published by Novalis Press (ZA). This book was released on 1996 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explains the concept of Ubuntu since there is no equivalent English word for Ubuntu. Ubuntu ( the Essence of Democracy) stands for a process that is active and adaptable.

Re-Visioning Education in Africa

Author : Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331970043X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Book Synopsis Re-Visioning Education in Africa by : Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako

Download or read book Re-Visioning Education in Africa written by Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the case for a conceptual and pragmatic revolution of Africa’s formal educational systems. Using the context of Ubuntu-inspired education, the authors explore innovative ways to tackle the challenges faced by governments from the local and national level and beyond. Along the way, the editors and their contributors examine important policy questions to encourage fresh thinking on ways to improve the educational system and, in turn, to buoy the development of the region as a whole.

Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality

Author : Warikandwa, Tapiwa Victor
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956550124
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Book Synopsis Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality by : Warikandwa, Tapiwa Victor

Download or read book Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality written by Warikandwa, Tapiwa Victor and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Right from the enslavement era through to the colonial and contemporary eras, Africans have been denied their human essence – portrayed as indistinct from animals or beasts for imperial burdens, Africans have been historically dispossessed and exploited. Postulating the theory of global jurisprudential apartheid, the book accounts for biases in various legal systems, norms, values and conventions that bind Africans while affording impunity to Western states. Drawing on contemporary notions of animism, transhumanism, posthumanism and science and technology studies, the book critically interrogates the possibility of a jurisprudence of anticipation which is attentive to the emergent New World Order that engineers ‘human beings to become nonhumans’ while ‘nonhumans become humans’. Connecting discourses on decoloniality with jurisprudence in the areas of family law, environment, indigenisation, property, migration, constitutionalism, employment and labour law, commercial law and Ubuntu, the book also juggles with emergent issues around Earth Jurisprudence, ecocentrism, wild law, rights of nature, Earth Court and Earth Tribunal. Arguing for decoloniality that attends to global jurisprudential apartheid., this tome is handy for legal scholars and practitioners, social scientists, civil society organisations, policy makers and researchers interested in transformation, decoloniality and Pan-Africanism.

The Journey Behind

Author : Anita Duckworth-Bradshaw
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1496993640
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Journey Behind written by Anita Duckworth-Bradshaw and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life is a journey and each one of us must start from somewhere because where we are today, is a result of the journey we have made and the path we chose." - Anita Duckworth-Bradshaw The Journey Behind is a collective tale of high profile professionals who besides all their successful achievements, decided to share their story and insights in various topics with the world through this book. They have not only shared their stories but each one of them, have gone the extra mile to offer some powerful practical tips on several different topics which will eliminate the thought of doubt in 'self' and promote positive attitude towards greatness.

The Secret History of Democracy

Author : Benjamin Isakhan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230299466
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of Democracy written by Benjamin Isakhan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intriguing idea that there is much more democracy in human history than is generally acknowledged. It establishes that democracy was developing across greater Asia before classical Athens, clung on during the 'Dark Ages', often formed part of indigenous governance and is developing today in unexpected ways.

UBUNTU FOR WARRIORS.

Author : COLIN. CHASI
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781569027028
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book UBUNTU FOR WARRIORS. written by COLIN. CHASI and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Golden Rule and the Games People Play

Author : Rami Shapiro
Publisher : SkyLight Paths Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1594735980
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Rule and the Games People Play written by Rami Shapiro and published by SkyLight Paths Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This philosophical game changer looks critically at the Golden Rule in the context of game theory to see where it works and where it doesn’t, when it is applicable and when it isn’t. It shows you why knowing the difference can offer you a powerful way to transform your life from one driven by fear to one driven by love.

Philosophy, Democracy and Responsible Governance in Africa

Author : Josephat Obi Oguejiofor
Publisher : Lit Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Philosophy, Democracy and Responsible Governance in Africa by : Josephat Obi Oguejiofor

Download or read book Philosophy, Democracy and Responsible Governance in Africa written by Josephat Obi Oguejiofor and published by Lit Verlag. This book was released on 2003 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays presented in this collection set out to explore various aspects of the issue of governance and to reflect on how governance in Africa can be made to be more responsible. All the contributors exhibit clear awareness of the stupendous problems confronting governance in Africa, and make different suggestions aimed at obviating the difficulties. The volume is a timely and welcome contribution to the never-ending discussions about Africa, its problems, its leaders and managers, and the possible ways of drawing it out of the quagmire into which decades of bad governance, in addition to many other factors, have thrown most countries of the continent.

Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context

Author : Robert Nichols
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135053820
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context written by Robert Nichols and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context: Dialogues with James Tully gathers leading thinkers from across the humanities and social sciences in a celebration of, and critical engagement with, the recent work of Canadian political philosopher James Tully. Over the past thirty years, James Tully has made key contributions to some of the most pressing questions of our time, including: interventions in the history of moral and political thought, contemporary political philosophy, democracy, citizenship, imperialism, recognition and cultural diversity. In 2008, he published Public Philosophy in a New Key, a two-volume work that promises to be one of the most influential and important statements of legal and political thought in recent history. This work, along with numerous other books and articles, is foundational to a distinctive school of political thought, influencing thinkers in fields as diverse as Anthropology, History, Indigenous Studies, Law, Philosophy and Political Science. Critically engaging with James Tully’s thought, the essays in this volume take up what is his central, and ever more pressing, question: how to enact democratic practices of freedom within and against historically sedimented and actually existing relationships of imperialism?

African Philosophy Through Ubuntu

Author : Mogobe B. Ramose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Philosophy Through Ubuntu written by Mogobe B. Ramose and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of decolonisation, the philosophical character of European standpoint on colonisation together with its corresponding practices remains unchanged in its relations with the erstwhile colonies. It is precisely this condition which calls for the need for the authentic liberation of Africa. This speaks of a two-fold exigency. One is that the colonised people's conceptions of reality, knowledge and truth should be released from slavery and dominance under the European epistemological paradigm. Without this essential first step there cannot evolve a common authentic and liberating universe of discourse. The second exigency is that the evolving common universe of discourse must take into account the rational demands of justice to the colonised arising from the unjust wars of conquest that resulted in colonial disseizing of territory as well as the enslavement of the colonised. These rational demands of justice are specifically the restoration of territory to its indigenous rightful owners and reparations to them. This two fold exigency is the indisplensable neccessity for the authentic liberation of Africa, and indeed, all the colonised people of the world.

Ubuntu and the Reconstitution of Community

Author : James Ogude
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253042143
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Ubuntu and the Reconstitution of Community written by James Ogude and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ubuntu is premised on the ethical belief that an individual's humanity is fostered in a network of human relationships: I am because you are; we are because you are. The essays in this lively volume elevate the debate about ubuntu beyond the buzzword it has become, especially within South African religious and political contexts. The seasoned scholars and younger voices gathered here grapple with a range of challenges that ubuntu puts forward. They break down its history and analyze its intellectual surroundings in African philosophical traditions, European modernism, religious contexts, and human rights discourses. The discussion embraces questions about what it means to be human and to be a part of a community, giving attention to moments of loss and fragmentation in postcolonial modernity, to come to a more meaningful definition of belonging in a globalizing world. Taken together, these essays offer a rich understanding of ubuntu in all of its complexity and reflect on a value system rooted in the everyday practices of ordinary people in their daily encounters with churches, schools, and other social institutions.

Ubuntu

Author : Leonhard Praeg
Publisher : Thinking Africa
ISBN 13 : 9781869142650
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Ubuntu written by Leonhard Praeg and published by Thinking Africa. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays contextualises the discourse on Ubuntu within the wider historical framework of postcolonial attempts to re-articulate African humanism as a substantial philosophy and emancipatory ideology." -- Back cover.

A Relational Model of Public Discourse

Author : Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351108611
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Book Synopsis A Relational Model of Public Discourse by : Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian

Download or read book A Relational Model of Public Discourse written by Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary democratic discourses are frequently, though not exclusively, characterized by an attitude of ‘pro and con' where the aim is to persuade others, a jury or an audience, of what is right and what is wrong. Challenging such procedures, this book teases out an alternative model of public discourse that is based in collaboration and deliberation. The African philosophy of ubuntu offers valuable insights in this regard as it implies relational notions of power that contrast and complement individualist facets. It provides the space to think and speak in ways that support harmonious and cohesive societal structures and practices. The book’s model of communication rests on the premise that the various interests of individuals and groups, while richly diverse, can be conceived of as profoundly bound-up rather than incompatible. In this way communication enables broader lines of action and a wider scope for achieving diversity and common ground.

Capitalism and Freedom in African Political Philosophy

Author : Grivas Muchineripi Kayange
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030443604
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Capitalism and Freedom in African Political Philosophy by : Grivas Muchineripi Kayange

Download or read book Capitalism and Freedom in African Political Philosophy written by Grivas Muchineripi Kayange and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates ‘capitalism and freedom’—the guiding forces of many political systems—in African philosophy. It builds on classical and neoliberal capitalism rooted in private property and freedom, and argues for the presence of these elements in the traditional and modern African political systems. The author argues that while these elements are partly imported from Western capitalists, they are equally traceable in African traditional political systems. Kayange argues that African politics is marred by a conflict between embracing capitalism and freedom (individualism), on the one hand, and socialism founded on African communitarianism and communist ideas, on the other. This conflict has affected policy development and implementation, and has significantly contributed towards the socio-economic and ethical crises that are recurrent in most of the African countries.

African Philosophy and Thought Systems

Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956763012
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Book Synopsis African Philosophy and Thought Systems by : Mawere, Munyaradzi

Download or read book African Philosophy and Thought Systems written by Mawere, Munyaradzi and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The once acrimonious debate on the existence of African philosophy has come of age, yet the need to cultivate a culture of belonging is more demanding now than ever before in many African societies. The gargantuan indelible energised chicanery waves of neo-colonialism and globalisation and their sweeping effect on Africa demand more concerted action and solutions than cul-de-sac discourses and magical realism. It is in view of this realisation that this book was born. This is a vital text for understanding contextual historical trends in the development of African philosophic ideas on the continent and how Africans could possibly navigate the turbulent catadromous waters, tangled webs and chasms of destruction, and chagrin of struggles that have engrossed Africa since the dawn of slavery and colonial projects on the continent. The book aims to generate more insights and influence national, continental, and global debates in the field of philosophy. It is accessible and handy to a wider range of readers, ranging from educators and students of African philosophy, anthropology, African studies, cultural studies, and all those concerned with the further development of African philosophy and thought systems on the African continent.

Education for Democracy 2.0

Author : Michael Hoechsmann
Publisher : Critical Media Literacies
ISBN 13 : 9789004448483
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Education for Democracy 2.0 written by Michael Hoechsmann and published by Critical Media Literacies. This book was released on 2021 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This diverse and global collection of scholars, educators, and activists presents a panorama of perspectives on media education and democracy in a digital age. Drawing upon projects in both the formal and non-formal education spheres, the authors contribute towards conceptualizing, developing, cultivating, building and elaborating a more respectful, robust and critically-engaged democracy. Given the challenges our world faces, it may seem that small projects, programs and initiatives offer just a salve to broader social and political dynamics but these are the types of contestatory spaces, openings and initiatives that enable participatory democracy. This book provides a space for experimentation and dialogue, and a platform for projects and initiatives that challenge or supplement the learning offered by traditional forms of education. The Foreword is written by Divina Frau-Meigs (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) and the Postscript by Roberto Apirici and David García Marín (UNED, Madrid). Contributors are: Roberto Aparici, Adelina Calvo Salvador, Paul R. Carr, Colin Chasi, Sandra L. Cuervo Sanchez, Laura D'Olimpio, Milena Droumeva, Elia Fernández-Diaz, Ellen Field, Michael Forsman, Divina Frau-Meigs, Aquilina Fueyo, David García-Marín, Tania Goitandia Moore, José Gutiérrez-Pérez, Ignacio Haya Salmón, Bruno Salvador Hernández Levi, Michael Hoechsmann, Jennifer Jenson, Maria Korpijaakko, Sirkku Kotilainen, Emil Marmol, María Dolores Olvera-Lobo, Tania Ouariachi, Mari Pienimäki, Anna Renfors, Ylva Rodney-Gumede, Carlos Rodríguez-Hoyos, Mar Rodríguez-Romero, Tafadzwa Rugoho, Juha Suoranta, Gina Thésée, Robyn M. Tierney, Robert C. Williams and María Luisa Zorrilla Abascal"--