Just the beginning for ubuntu: reply to Matolino and Kwindingwi

Metz, Thaddeus

doi:10.1080/02580136.2014.892680

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“…Another critique is that the local life of the village has very little to do with the modern national states which include numerous groups who do not all share the same idea of the common good (Matolino and Kwindingwi 2013). In relation to this critique, some authors have argued that Ubuntu is an egalitarian utopic ideal that can provide us with a critical instrument on how to judge and plan our current society (Metz 2014).…”

Section: A Communitarian View On Intergenerational Justicementioning

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Energy Justice and Intergenerational Ethics: Theoretical Perspectives and Institutional Designs

Pellegrini‐Masini

Corvino

Löfquist

2019

Energy Justice Across Borders

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In this work, we discuss how both contractualism, in the Western tradition, and communitarianism, in the African interpretation based on the idea of Ubuntu, conceptualise intergenerational justice. Even though both philosophical theories, taking into account differences and shortcomings, provide theoretical answers to intergenerational justice dilemmas, the implementation of actual policies in the interest of future individuals does not follow straightforwardly. Accordingly, in the second part of the chapter, we analyse what policy tools have been implemented or conceived to deliver intergenerational justice and we advocate a pragmatic approach pointing towards a mix of different policy tools. IntroductionEnergy justice is a relatively new theoretical framework for understanding the sustainability of the energy system and the allocation of burdens and benefits among all those actors that are involved in its various phases: those who produce, deliver, and consume energy and those who are called to manage the corresponding waste. McCauley (2018: 1-2) has recently defined energy justice as "the application of rights (both social and environmental) at each component part of the energy system". As any distributive scheme concerned with the assignment of social rights and the correlative duties among the members of society, energy justice brings with itself the problem of defining its scope. What are the geographical (or political) and the temporal borders that delineate the group of individuals whose rights and duties

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Section: A Communitarian View On Intergenerational Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Justice and Intergenerational Ethics: Theoretical Perspectives and Institutional Designs

Pellegrini‐Masini

Corvino

Löfquist

2019

Energy Justice Across Borders

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“…In light of the preceding paragraphs, the common view in the literature is that fellowship, interconnectedness, interdependence, reconciliation, relationality, community, friendliness, harmonious relationships and other-regarding actions have special significance in evaluating the morality of an action. [2,4,13,14,19,21,23,25,43,56,57,67,71,78,84,90,94,104,[106][107][108][109][110][111][112] If the self were to be the basis for right action, then the self could justify any action as long as it benefits the self. On this relational account of morality, an other-regarding view fundamentally determines the way the self should behave.…”

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Core aspects of ubuntu: A systematic review

Ewuoso

Hall

2019

S Afr J BL

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“…However, while acknowledging the validity of some of these criticisms, a counter argument has emerged that it is possible to rethink and reconstitute the meaning of Ubuntu (Praeg & Magadla, 2014), so that this term can provide the basis for an ethical world view (Metz, 2014). In addition, Eze (2010:160-161) has argued that Ubuntu provided a modern ideological basis for a "flexible" notion of nation-building which emerged during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC):…”

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Difficult relationships: how will compulsory School History and an Ubuntu-based curriculum help nation-building in South Africa?

Nussey

2018

Y&T

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Despite South Africa's shift to democracy, there are ongoing difficulties in relationships both in the broader society and schools. An official response to this situation was the establishment of the History Ministerial Task Team (MTT), which recommended: that history should be made a compulsory subject for learners in all phases at school; and, that the history curriculum should be revised using an African nationalist paradigm, informed by the framework of Ubuntu. This article uses the findings of a research project conducted in history classrooms at three primary schools in Johannesburg to illustrate some of the difficulties in relationships in the history classroom. It argues that compulsory history at school level will not necessarily be a panacea for South Africa's social ills, especially as this proposal has reawakened fears of how history education was abused during apartheid. A strength of the History MTT's report is that it emphasises the importance of multi-perspectives in history, while favouring an approach that uses an African nationalist paradigm, informed by Ubuntu, to assist with nation-building. However, the notion of Ubuntu needs to be reconstituted, and when applied in conjunction with reconciliation pedagogy, it provides an alternative way, during teacher development workshops, for in-service history teachers to reflect on their own residual prejudices about "the other", so that, in turn, they are able to facilitate meaningful changes in relationships in the history classroom. This approach might be applicable not only in South Africa, but also to history teachers in post-conflict countries which experience similar problems.

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Just the beginning for ubuntu: reply to Matolino and Kwindingwi

Cited by 64 publications

References 9 publications

Energy Justice and Intergenerational Ethics: Theoretical Perspectives and Institutional Designs

Energy Justice and Intergenerational Ethics: Theoretical Perspectives and Institutional Designs

Core aspects of ubuntu: A systematic review

Difficult relationships: how will compulsory School History and an Ubuntu-based curriculum help nation-building in South Africa?

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