Open AccessA postfoundational ubuntu accepts the unwelcomed (by way of ‘process’ transversality)
Author(s) -
Wayne G. Smith
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
verbum et ecclesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.386
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2074-7705
pISSN - 1609-9982
DOI - 10.4102/ve.v38i3.1556
Subject(s) - ontology , epistemology , sociology , etymology , aphorism , transversality , injustice , philosophy , aesthetics , linguistics , psychology , social psychology , mathematics , mathematical analysis
This examination of ubuntu is engaged in a conversation with the speculative philosophy of organism (process) to acquire an extended tool by which to engage within its ontology the widest possible range of human interaction. The engagement by ubuntus relational doctrine of the speculative philosophical cosmology of A.N. Whitehead placed portions of the latters constructs at the service of ubuntus transversal capacity to examine and apply the deepest understanding of its own etymology. It has been a challenge to understand occasions of injustice and suffering which have manifested within the same African culture which has given to the world the language and concept of ubuntu. It has been commonplace to isolate the utopian relational ontology implicit in the aphorism from occasions of the worst of human nature. It was the premise of this study that an understanding of an ubuntu which excludes dystopian occasions has done a disservice to the breadth, depth and height of what is to be fully human including occasions of suffering and anti-social behaviours