African Ethics and Death
Moral Status and Human Dignity in Ubuntu Thinking
Series: Routledge Studies in African Philosophy;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 6 May 2025
- ISBN 9781032658469
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages122 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 230 g
- Language English 659
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Short description:
This book analyses the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death. Providing an important overview of the ethical problems associated with the biological fact of death, it will be of interest to researchers across the fields of philosophy and African Studies.
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This book analyzes the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death.
The book first challenges the criticism and rejection of moral status in African philosophy and then continues to consider how moral personhood is defined in African ethical theories, investigating which entities have full moral status or moral personhood and are therefore worthy of full ethical consideration. It then applies this theory to the problems associated with death. In the medical context, will an African theory of moral status permit or forbid euthanasia? Do we have moral obligations towards dead human bodies? Overall, the book provides an important African axiological contribution to debates on global ethics and moral philosophy.
Providing an important overview of the ethical problems associated with the biological fact of death, this book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of philosophy and African studies.
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Part 1: African Moral Philosophy 1. Introduction to Moral Status and Death in African Ethics 2. A Defence of Moral Status in African Philosophy 3. Ubuntu Ethics, ubuntu and Moral Status 4. Ubuntu, Empathy and Moral Status Part 2: African Applied Ethics 5. Ubuntu Ethics and Voluntary Euthanasia 6. Ubuntu Ethics and the Moral Status of Dead Human Bodies
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