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African Ethics and Death - Motsamai Molefe, Elphus Muade

African Ethics and Death

Moral Status and Human Dignity in Ubuntu Thinking
Buch | Hardcover
116 Seiten
2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-65840-7 (ISBN)
CHF 87,25 inkl. MwSt
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.
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.

Motsamai Molefe is Senior Researcher, Centre for Leadership Ethics in Africa (CLEA), University of Fort Hare, South Africa, and Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Philosophy. Elphus Muade is an expert in medical ethics, medical law, environmental ethics, and bioethics with a PhD from the University of Kwazulu–Natal, South Africa. He is currently doing his post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Leadership Ethics in Africa, University of Fort Hare.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in African Philosophy
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 600 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-032-65840-1 / 1032658401
ISBN-13 978-1-032-65840-7 / 9781032658407
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