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Quite a horrible philosophy. It is really totalitarian in nature. Marxism and nazi going together. Obviously it seems ok to unify and pardon. But read this.
by ngcc_hk 6y ago
Quite a horrible philosophy. It is really totalitarian in nature. Marxism and nazi going together. Obviously it seems ok to unify and pardon. But read this. Horror. Individual can opt in but not mold like a clay. Whilst we should interact but not find ourselves in the group only. Individual is the base. Or at least some of us trying and should not be joined only pray of a group even though you label the group as humanity.
What if my minority group is a different kind. What is I want myself, my family and my county only. Yes we can have a country or a culture and there is an us. But that us should not forced upon me, my family or my town to conform. Or my little race my little county ... another china just too small currently but another china. That might be a link between Africa and
“ "Ubuntu" as political philosophy encourages community equality, propagating the distribution of wealth. This socialisation is a vestige of agrarian peoples as a hedge against the crop failures of individuals. Socialisation presupposes a community population with which individuals empathise and concomitantly, have a vested interest in its collective prosperity. Urbanisation and the aggregation of people into an abstract and bureaucratic state undermines this empathy. African Intellectual historians like Michael Onyebuchi Eze have argued however that this ideal of "collective responsibility" must not be understood as absolute in which the community's good is prior to the individual's good. On this view, ubuntu it is argued, is a communitarian philosophy that is widely differentiated from the Western notion of communitarian socialism. In fact, ubuntu induces an ideal of shared human subjectivity that promotes a community's good through an unconditional recognition and appreciation of individual uniqueness and difference.[12] Audrey Tang has suggested that Ubuntu "implies that everyone has different skills and strengths; people are not isolated, and through mutual support they can help each other to complete themselves."[13]
"Redemption" relates to how people deal with errant, deviant, and dissident members of the community. The belief is that man is born formless like a lump of clay. It is up to the community, as a whole, to use the fire of experience and the wheel of social control to mould him into a pot that may contribute to society. Any imperfections should be borne by the community and the community should always seek to redeem man. ...”