Ubuntu: An African Jurisprudence - Couverture souple

 
9781485126713: Ubuntu: An African Jurisprudence
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1485126711 ISBN 13 : 9781485126713
Editeur : Juta Legal and Academic Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

Ubuntu: An African Jurisprudence examines how and why South African
courts and law-makers have been using the concept of ubuntu over the
last thirty years, reflecting the views of judges and scholars, and above
all proclaiming the importance of this new idea for South African legal
thinking. Although ubuntu is the product of relations in and between the
close-knit groups of a precolonial society, its basic aims - social harmony
and caring for others - give it an inherently inclusive scope. This principle
is therefore quite capable of embracing all those who constitute the
heterogeneous populations of modern states.
Included in this work are discussions of two traditional institutions that
provide model settings for the realisation of ubuntu: imbizo, national
gatherings consulted by traditional rulers to decide matters of general
concern, and indaba, a typically African process of making decisions
based on the consensus of the group. Courts and law-makers have used
imbizo to give effect to the constitutional requirement of participatory
democracy, and indaba to suggest an alternative method of decisionmaking
to systems of majority voting.
Ubuntu offers something extraordinarily valuable to South Africa and, in
fact, to the wider world. Its emphasis on our responsibility for the welfare
of our fellow beings acts as a timely antidote not only to the typically
rationalist, disinterested system of justice in Western law, but also to the
sense of anomie so prevalent in today's society.

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Éditeur
Juta Legal and Academic Publishers
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1485126711
ISBN 13 
9781485126713
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Éditeur
Bennett T.W., Munro A.R., Jacobs P.J.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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