Ubuntu personhood defines the self only through communal relation

Evidence

The concept is ubuntu, in the Nguni languages — botho in Tswana, umuntu in Zulu, vumunhu in Tsonga. The South African scholar and theologian Desmond Tutu, in No Future Without Forgiveness (1999), articulated it in the phrase that became globally known after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu — a person is a person through other persons. — , The Rod and the Child, 4252

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out the ubuntu concept and its canonical Tutu articulation in the Nguni languages.
• XREF: connects to: Communitarian personhood defines identity through community rather than the Cartesian I — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 434; Communal philosophy need not imply unanimous belief among members; Individual and social liberation must be waged together but not assumed interdependent (+15 more)

Related

• Bantu personhood rejects Cartesian cogito in favor of relational compassion (similarity 0.88)
• Africans achieve full personhood only through a long social birth process (similarity 0.87)
• Communal philosophy need not imply unanimous belief among members (similarity 0.84)
• Communitarian personhood defines identity through community rather than the Cartesian I (similarity 0.80)
• African thought defines the human person as a relation to others, world, and God. (similarity 0.80)
• In African thought the collective community precedes and grounds individual identity (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Communitarian personhood defines identity through community rather than the Cartesian I #corroborates (0.90) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 434
• Human life must be understood under both individual and social attributes at once #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 213
• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction #corroborates (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194
• Communal philosophy need not imply unanimous belief among members #qualifies (0.60)
• The state precedes the individual because humans achieve their full purpose only within society #corroborates (0.45) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 802
• Individual and social liberation must be waged together but not assumed interdependent #qualifies (0.40)