Collectivism and the Question of Justice
The question I address here pertains to whether a community-oriented ethics necessarily implies endorsement of a collectivist approach to justice. I explore this question in response to theories that conceive of African ethics as fundamentally community-oriented. The argument I defend is that a coll...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
[2020]
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| In: |
Ethical perspectives
Year: 2020, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 93-115 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ Justice
/ Collectivism
/ Community
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| RelBib Classification: | KBN Sub-Saharan Africa NCA Ethics VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | The question I address here pertains to whether a community-oriented ethics necessarily implies endorsement of a collectivist approach to justice. I explore this question in response to theories that conceive of African ethics as fundamentally community-oriented. The argument I defend is that a collectivist approach to justice is not a necessary consequence of a community-oriented ethics. To make this case, I draw on ideas distilled from Ubuntu and personhood. The aim is to show that it is implausible to infer from the core assumption of a community-oriented ethics - that the community has primacy over the individual - that a particular approach to justice is a necessary consequence of this model of ethics. Such an inference is mistaken and is set aside in this article to articulate an approach to justice that is consistent with a community-oriented ethics. The proposal I advance is that pluralism should inform imagination of justice in the context of a community-oriented ethics. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1431 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ethical perspectives
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/EP.27.1.3288830 |