@article{1484385,
      recid = {1484385},
      author = {Kayange, Grivas Muchineripi.},
      title = {Meaning of justice in African philosophy /},
      publisher = {SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PU,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xix, 138 pages).},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {The book examines the meaning of justice in African  political philosophy, building on the use-theoretical  approach. Currently, most of the philosophical works in  this context advocate for a communal interpretation of the  meaning of justice, such as the 'relational theory of  justice' and 'Ubuntu justice as fairness.' The author  argues that this foundation of justice in the community  undermines the self, which is a major problem with these  theories. As an attempt to go beyond communitarianism in  African thought, the book recognizes other philosophical  frameworks for elaborating the meaning of justice in  ordinary people's experience, such as vitalism, theism,  ubuntuism, and semantic framework. The author opts for a  reconstructed ubuntu-based theory of the meaning of justice  that reflects the traditional African experience and  recuperates 'valuing self-existence' and 'valuing  other-existence' as its foundations. The book further  identifies the centrality of rights in defining justice in  traditional African communities.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1484385},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47598-6},
}