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African indigenous ethics in global bioethics : Interpreting Ubuntu
- Title
- African indigenous ethics in global bioethics : Interpreting Ubuntu / Leonard Chuwa.
- Author
- Chuwa, Leonard Tumaini.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Springer, [2014]
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- Description
- xi, 258 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This book educates whilst also challenging the contemporary schools of thought within philosophical and religious ethics. In addition, it underlines the fact that the substance of ethics in general and bioethics/healthcare ethics specifically, is much more expansive and inclusive than is usually thought. Bioethics is a relatively new academic discipline. However, ethics has existed informally since before the time of Hippocrates. The indigenous culture of African peoples has an ethical worldview which predates the western discourse. This indigenous ethical worldview has been orally transmitted over centuries. The earliest known written African text containing some concepts and content of ethics is the “Declaration of Innocence” written in 1500 B.C., found in an Egyptian text. Ubuntu is an example of African culture that presents an ethical worldview. This work interprets the culture of Ubuntu to explain the contribution of a representative indigenous African ethics to global bioethics. Many modern scholars have written about the meaning of Ubuntu for African societies over centuries. Some scholars have viewed Ubuntu as the greatest contribution of African cultures to other world cultures. None of the scholars, however has explored the culture of Ubuntu as providing a representative indigenous ethics that can contribute to global bioethics as discussed in this book.?
- Series Statement
- Advancing Global Bioethics ; 1
- Uniform Title
- Advancing global bioethics ; 1.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. 249-258)
- Call Number
- Sc E 14-1334
- ISBN
- 9789401786249
- 9401786240
- OCLC
- 871243754
- Author
- Chuwa, Leonard Tumaini.
- Title
- African indigenous ethics in global bioethics : Interpreting Ubuntu / Leonard Chuwa.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Springer, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Advancing Global Bioethics ; 1Advancing global bioethics ; 1.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. 249-258)
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 14-1334