Böcker av Katherine Furman

Political philosophy is rooted in moral philosophy, where prescriptions of right action for theindividual are amplified to prescriptions of right action for state and in standard political philosophythe ethical base is typically provided by Kantianism or Utilitarianism(Metz, 2009, p. 335). Thischapter aims to describe and defend a theory of right action implicit in ubuntu, with the intentionthat this can be used as the premise for an African political philosophy - the task of subsequentchapters. In describing an ubuntu ethic, the aim is not to uncover the 'most true' account of ubuntu