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EPISODE · Jul 17, 2022 · 28 MIN

Ubuntu

from Philosopher's Zone · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Ubuntu is an African tradition of thought whose ethical orientation is captured in the well-known aphorism “I am, because we are”. But what gets lost when Ubuntu is framed as a philosophical discourse in the Western intellectual tradition? And where do we see its successes and failures in the reconstruction of post-colonial Africa?

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