Justice as Fairness and "Ubuntu": Conceptualizing Justice through Human Dignity

This article examines the moral understanding of Rawls’s "justice as fairness" and the pre-colonial Nguni concept of ubuntu in the search for both areas of convergence and dissonance, and to see what scholars of justice might learn in the process. While Rawls’s justice as fairness is the p...

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Authors: Nnodim, Paul (Author) ; Okigbo, Austin C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Peeters [2020]
In: Ethical perspectives
Year: 2020, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-91
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Rawls, John 1921-2002, A theory of justice / Justice / Using Ubuntu Linux (Philosophy) / Fair play
RelBib Classification:KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
NBE Anthropology
NCC Social ethics
TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
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