This article considers how global ethical matters might be approached differently in the English-speaking literature if values salient in sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia were taken seriously. Specifically, after pointing out how indigenous values in both of these major parts of the world tend to prescribe honouring harmonious relationships, the article brings out what such an approach to morality entails for political power, foreign relations and criminal justice. For each major issue, it suggests that harmony likely has implications that differ from approaches that currently dominate Western thought, namely those of utility, autonomy and capability. Lacking the space to systematically defend harmony as a fundamental value, it nonetheless urges theorists not to neglect it in future work.
قطعه
عنوان
Journal of Global Ethics
شماره جلد
, Vol. 10, No. 2
تاريخ نشر
, (August 2014)
توصيف ظاهري
: P. 146-155
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
African ethics
موضوع مستند نشده
Confucian ethics
موضوع مستند نشده
harmony
موضوع مستند نشده
relationality
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ubuntu
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