Ubuntu and the law in South Africa: Exploring and understanding the substantive content of ubuntu

Sibusiso Blessing Radebe, Moses Retselisitsoe Phooko

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Abstract

Supposing some legal solutions lay in exploring and understanding the substantive content of ubuntu, what then? Is there no ground for suspecting that some legal scholars and courts, in so far as they have been dogmatists, have failed to understand ubuntu? That the terrible, seriousness and clumsy importunity with which they have usually paid their addresses to ubuntu have been unskilled and unseemly methods of solving some legal problems? Certainly, some legal problems have not rendered themselves to proper solutions through such methods.1

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)239-251
Number of pages13
JournalSouth African Journal of Philosophy
Volume36
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Jun 2017
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Philosophy

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