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Ubuntu and Relational Personhood

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Ubuntu, from southern African thought, grounds personhood in community: a person is a person through other persons.

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On this view, wronging a neighbor diminishes the wrongdoer—identity itself is built from relationships, not owned in isolation.

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Oral tradition is not the absence of philosophy. Writing is one medium for argument, not its definition.