Ubuntu - An African Assessment of the Religious Other
By Dirk J. Louw. 20th World Conference of Philosophy: PAIDAIA. This paper deals with an assessment of the faith of others which transcends absolutism without resorting to relativism. More specifically, it aims to show that an African philosophy and way of life called ‘Ubuntu’ (humanness) significantly overlaps with such a ‘decolonized’ assessment of the religious other, and that this assessment can therefore also be explained, motivated or underscored with reference to the concept of Ubuntu. [Full Text Article, html]