African Indigenous ethics in global bioethics : interpreting Ubuntu /

This book educates whilst also challenging the contemporary schools of thought within philosophical and religious ethics. In addition, it underlines the fact that the substance of ethics in general and bioethics/healthcare ethics specifically, is much more expansive and inclusive than is usually tho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chuwa, Leonard Tumaini (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Springer, 2014.
Colección:Advancing global bioethics ; v. 1.
Temas:
Bioethics > Africa > History.
Ubuntu (Philosophy)
Ubuntu (Philosophie)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
Bioethics
Africa
ethiek
ethics
cultureel onderzoek
cultural research
filosofie
philosophy
bioethics
Philosophy (General)
Filosofie (algemeen)
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgement
  • Contents
  • Chapter-1
  • Introduction: The Culture of Ubuntu
  • 1.1 Emergence of Global Bioethics
  • 1.1.1 Inevitable Birth of Global Bioethics
  • 1.1.1.1 Limited Scope of Medical Ethics and the Increasing Need for Global Bioethics
  • 1.1.1.2 Political Bases for the Genesis of Global Bioethics
  • 1.1.1.3 Demographical Conditions that Necessitated Emergence of Global Bioethics
  • 1.1.2 UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights as Appropriate Response to the Needs of the Times
  • 1.1.2.1 Globalization
  • 1.1.2.2 Infectious Diseases 1.1.2.3 International Trade
  • 1.1.3 UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights as an Unconscious Recognition of Ubuntu
  • 1.1.3.1 Humans should not be Used as Mere Means to Whatever End
  • 1.1.3.2 Increasingly Obvious Need for International Bioethical Policymaking Board
  • 1.1.3.3 The Increasing Need to Recognize Human Basic Equality Globally
  • 1.2 Exploration of Ubuntu
  • 1.2.1 Meaning of Ubuntu
  • 1.2.2 Ubuntu is Anthropocentric, Theocentric and Cosmocentric
  • 1.2.2.1 Interdependence
  • 1.2.2.2 Need for Otherness 1.2.2.3 Ubuntu and Unity
  • 1.2.3 Ubuntu Ethics of Immortality
  • 1.2.3.1 Personal Immortality
  • 1.2.3.2 The Importance of Marriage and Procreation
  • 1.2.3.3 Ubuntu Theory of Moral Development
  • 1.3 Relevance of Ubuntu Worldview
  • 1.3.1 Ubuntu Existential-Relational Epistemology
  • 1.3.2 Ubuntu Relational and Holistic Perspective on Human Disease
  • 1.3.3 Ubuntu Communitarian Healthcare Ethics
  • 1.4 Conclusion
  • Chapter-2
  • Ubuntu Ethics
  • 2.1 Tension Between Individual and Universal Rights
  • 2.1.1 Inalienable Rights2.1.1.1 Personal Rights within Communitarian Context
  • 2.1.1.2 Individualâ€?s Personal Rights are Defined by Othersâ€? Personal Rights
  • 2.1.2 Human Relationships
  • 2.1.2.1 Anthropological and Epistemological Perspective
  • 2.1.2.2 Otherness
  • 2.1.2.3 Communitarianism
  • 2.1.3 Reciprocity of Care
  • 2.1.3.1 Reciprocity as the Bond Between the Community and an Individual
  • 2.1.3.2 Ujamaa as Praxis of Ubuntu Reciprocity
  • 2.1.3.3 Importance of Marriage and Procreation
  • 2.2 Cosmic and Global Context
  • 2.2.1 Justice
  • 2.2.1.1 Ubuntu Justice is Reparative Rather than Retributive2.2.1.2 Ubuntu Justice is Distributive
  • 2.2.1.3 Ubuntu Justice is Communitarian
  • 2.2.2 Diversity
  • 2.2.2.1 Anthropocentrism and Respect for Diversity
  • 2.2.2.2 Otherness as Source, Objective and Rationale of Morality
  • 2.2.2.3 Tension Between Diversity, Communitarianism and Human Freedom
  • 2.2.3 Biosphere
  • 2.2.3.1 The Self and the Cosmos in Relationship
  • 2.2.3.2 Role of and Respect for Other Forms of Life
  • 2.2.3.3 Sacredness of the Biosphere
  • 2.3 The Role of Solidarity

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