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"Ubuntu literally means 'humanness' in the Nguni languages of Southern Africa, and is often used to summarise the moral core of how we ought to live and treat one another."

— Thaddeus Metz

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"Ubuntu is often used to concisely sum up a particular view of what is morally fundamental."

The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity (2014)

"What the 'ubuntu tradition' refers to is the conception of how one ought to live that was prominent among pre-colonial societies below the Sahara desert."

"There are three major reasons why ideas associated with ubuntu are often deemed to be an inappropriate basis for a public morality in today's South Africa."

"The aim of my interpretation of ubuntu is not to represent thoughts previously shared by other scholars, but to draw interesting ideas from it and show how they can be used."

University of Pretoria Expert Lecture (2021)

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