A Critical Review of Leonhard Praeg’s A Report on Ubuntu

R M J Oduor

doi:10.4314/tp.v6i2.6

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Jul 21, 2015

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10.4314/tp.v6i2.6

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R M J Oduor, University of Nairobi

Dr. Reginald M.J. Oduor is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the New Series of Thought and Practice. His main philosophical interests are in political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion and African Philosophy. He is also the Chairman of the Society of Professionals with Visual Disabilities based in Nairobi, Kenya.

R M J Oduor

University of Nairobi

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This article opines that in view of its detailed presentation of the contemporary discourse on Ubuntu, its incisive analysis of key concepts in this discourse, as well as its bold and thoroughgoing critique of the assumptions of both the advocates of Ubuntu and the defenders of the hegemonic Western liberal tradition, Leonhard Praeg’s seminal work, A Report on Ubuntu, is an outstanding contribution not only to the Southern African discourse on Ubuntu, but also to the ongoing quest for methodology in African philosophy as a whole.

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Ubuntu, communitarianism, liberalism, Apartheid, South Africa

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