10th BLB Meeting, September 13th, 2017: "Ubuntu and Terrorism"

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Topic: Ubuntu and Terrorism

 

Speaker: Dr. Luis Rodrigues (Research Fellow, Dept. of Philosophy, Zhuhai)

 

Moderator: Dr. Tim Beaumont (Research Associate, Dept. of Philosophy, Zhuhai) and Dr. Pao-Shen Ho (Research Fellow, Dept. of Philosophy, Zhuhai)

 

Time: September 13th, 2017

 

Venue: Rm 114, No. 16 Building at Haibin Honglou

 

Abstract: 

The article addresses the fundamental issue of the morality of terrorism from a non-Western perspective. It examines how political violence and terrorism, in particular, are seen morally through the lens of the sub-Saharan Ubuntu. It introduces Ubuntu and its moral tenets and lays out its rules of engagement for political action. Finally, it considers the use of political violence in the cases of South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) and the United Kingdom’s Animal Rights Militia (ARM) and examines the morality of these groups’ actions from within the moral