Philosophy Blog

Ubuntu is an African name for a universal concept. The term contains a timeless wisdom. The Zulu description is - umuntu ngamuntu ngabantu which translates variously as:
“A person is a person through persons.”
“Persons depend upon persons to be persons”
“I am because you are, you are because we are.”
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“I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in sun, moon and stars.” Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century Benedictine nun canonized in 2010, was...
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