Answer to Question #217128 in Psychology for Did

Question

 Critically discuss Ubuntu/Botho as the foundation of African Ethics.

Answer 1

Ubuntu”, she says, “is the capacity in African culture to express compassion, reciprocity, dignity, harmony and humanity in the interests of building and maintaining community with justice and mutual caring.” Ubuntu is not just an African philosophy but a spirituality and an ethic of African traditional life.

Thus the idea of ubuntu retains a cocktail of features or values Notable among such values or elements are respect for human dignity, the value of the human person, an ethic of care and compassion, as well as a push for key moral and democratic values such as consensus, dialogue, and tolerance among others