May the Real Ubuntu Please Stand Up?
May the Real Ubuntu Please Stand Up?
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真正的Ubuntu请站起来吗？
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2015
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N. Mboti
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N. Mboti
这篇文章为乌班图的另一种说法辩护，并对非洲的道德和伦理提出了一个新的命题。在这样做的时候，它驳斥了ubuntu的规范性描述，其前提是格言umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu(人是通过其他人的人)。根据这一“最和谐”的描述，非洲人是和谐的集体主义者和分享者，通过道德和伦理善意“礼物”的社区定义传送带联系在一起。人们假定，非洲的正确行动理论会产生和谐，减少不和谐。然而，我认为，这种表面上的解释，尽管它具有直觉上的吸引力，但仍然存在一些相当强烈的疑问。
This article defends an alternative account of ubuntu and makes a novel proposition about African morality and ethics. In doing so, it refutes the normative account of ubuntu premised on the aphorism umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu (persons are persons through other persons). According to this “greatest harmony” account, Africans are harmonic collectivists and sharers, linked together by community-defining conveyor-belts of moral and ethical goodwill “gifts.” It is assumed that an African theory of right action produces harmony and reduces discord. I aver, however, that such a prima facie interpretation, notwithstanding its intuitive appeal, is still open to some rather strong doubt.