Abstract

FUTTER, Dylan B.. Ethical methodology in Metz's theory of Ubuntu. Phronimon [online]. 2016, vol.17, n.1, pp.1-14. ISSN 2413-3086.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3086/2016/158.

In this article I apply Thaddeus Metz's ethical methodology to the ancient Greek ideal of σωφροσύνη in order to show that it generates a distorted account of ubuntu. If ubuntu is a virtue concept, then Metz's analytical method will not reconstruct it - because it fails to determine whether ubuntu refers to one of a plurality of fundamental virtues, the fundamental virtue, or virtue itself.

Keywords : African ethics; Ancient Greek philosophy; excellence; sub-Saharan morality; ubuntu; virtue.

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