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Document Details : Title: Collectivism and the Question of Justice Author(s): OKEJA, Uchenna Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 27 Issue: 1 Date: 2020 Pages: 93-115 DOI: 10.2143/EP.27.1.3288830 Abstract : The question I address here pertains to whether a community-oriented ethics necessarily implies endorsement of a collectivist approach to justice. I explore this question in response to theories that conceive of African ethics as fundamentally community-oriented. The argument I defend is that a collectivist approach to justice is not a necessary consequence of a community-oriented ethics. To make this case, I draw on ideas distilled from Ubuntu and personhood. The aim is to show that it is implausible to infer from the core assumption of a community-oriented ethics – that the community has primacy over the individual – that a particular approach to justice is a necessary consequence of this model of ethics. Such an inference is mistaken and is set aside in this article to articulate an approach to justice that is consistent with a community-oriented ethics. The proposal I advance is that pluralism should inform imagination of justice in the context of a community-oriented ethics. |
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