Mogobe Ramose
Biographic Data
| ID | 926625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mogobe Ramose |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mogobe |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramose |
| SIGNATURE | RAMOSE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3921-7613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Africa’s Political Kingdom and the Albatross of Economic Bondage
Kwame Nkrumah wa Ghana o ile a thekga thuto ya gore ntwa ya Afrika ya tokologo, kgatlhanong le mafase a bokoloniale a Bodikela, moo Afrika e neng e lwešwa mo ntweng ya go tlhoka toka, ntwa ye ya tokologo e swanetše go re tlisetša “mmušo wa dipolotiki pele”. Tshepo e be e le gore “tše dingwe ka moka di tla latela.” Thuto e, e kwana gabotse le seo Mateo 6:33 mo puku-kgethwa e se bolelang, gomme go laetša gore go na le kgokagano ye e raraganego maga…
Are our parents our neighbours? An ubu-ntu perspective on the golden rule with regard to ageing
Modu wa tabaLegae ke karolo ye botlhokwa ya setshaba. Tabakgolo mo taodishong ye ke go araba potjisho ye: na ke tshwanelo gore bana ba ishe batswadi ba bona kgole kua madulong a batsofe? Re araba potjisho ye ka go ganetja bana ba ba phedilego gabotse basa babjwe go isha batswadi mafelong a botsofe. Re tloga re bontsha le gore kgale-kgale gona mafatsheng a Bodikela gobe go na le motlhalefi bare ke Cicero. Le yena o kwana le kganetjo ye moka le mor…
When ukucelwa ukuzalwa becomes bride price
The attempted erasure and inferiorisation of indigenous languages by the colonisers have robbed and continue to rob African people of the authority to self-define. As a result, numerous knowledge forms African languages transmit have disappeared or lost meaning. With vehement calls from African people, world over, to reclaim African ways of being, we have decided to explore the manner in which language is central to reclaiming of African healing …
Race Is an Indivisible Singular but Practice Insists It Is a Frangible Plural
Morafe ke bongwe bjo bosa kgaoganego eupja setlwaedi se laetja kgaogano go ya ka merafe Dinyakishisho di supa gore magareng ga batho, morafe ke yo tee fela; ke morafe wa batho. Ya go bitjwa DNA ka Sekgowa e laetja go sena pelaelo gore batho kamoka ke bana ba legoro le lelapa le tee. Ka bjalo, morafe wa batho ga o a tshwanela go kgaolwa dikgaokgao. Bophelong bja ka metlha re bona gore ba gona bao ba gananago le taba ye. Ba ema ka la gore go nale m…
Challenging the teaching of research methodologies in pursuit of epistemic and social justice in South Africa
Bana ba thari ya Afrika Borwa ba tšeyetšwe mabu a bona. Kamogo ye ya naga yešo ebile ka marumo mola thuto ya bathupi ba naga ba go tšwa moše wa mawatle e be e laetša gabotse gore ntwa ebe ese ya swanela go fegwa. Bathupi ba rile go fenya ba hlalosa gore ba ithwešitše “tokelo ya phenyo”. Go ya ka bona, tokelo ye e ba fa maatla a bofenyi. Maatla a ba netefatša ka wona gore bafengwa ba tla phela ka mokgwa yo bafenyi ba ratang ka gona. Le ge ba fentš…
Better see than look at Ramose
This is a reply to Cees Maris. He wrote two articles in Dutch purporting to be a dialogue with Mogobe Ramose. The two articles have subsequently been compressed into one and published in the South African Journal of Philosophy. Mogobe’s reply is directed at all three articles, meaning the two published in Dutch together with the one published in English. The core of the argument is the meaning of ubu-ntu against ubuntu. The former is a philosophi…
On Finding the Cinerarium for Uncremated Ubuntu
Science is the construction of knowledge according to prescribed standards and procedures. Experience and common sense knowledge are the necessary basis for the construction of scientific knowledge. The latter distinguishes itself from the former precisely by including only the selected fragments from the former and then elevating the fragments to “scientific knowledge.” The split of the human being into “emotion” and “reason” is an arbitrary fra…
Reincarnation, resurrection and the question of representation
This article discusses critically the problems and significance of the concepts of reincarnation and the resurrection. It focuses on the contemporary debate on this topic between Robert Almeder and Stephen Hales. The Akan understanding of these concepts is invoked showing the contrast and,even comparison between the African and the Western understanding of the concepts. It is suggested in this article that the arguments for these concepts could s…
Thought and practice in African philosophy
...
Towards a post-conquest South Africa
Sebakwa taodisong ye ke gore bao bago tseyelwa naga ka dikgoka ba nale tokelo ya go lwela gore naga ya bona e boele go bona. Ye ke tokelo yeo molaotheo wa 1996 o e gatakileng wa etsa okare sebakwa gase gore naga ye yago bitswa Afrika-Borwa ke bafenyi yona e sa amogilwe bana ba mabu. Taodisong ye re tla fetleka sebakwa se go tswa matlhakoreng a fapafapaneng re lebisitse kudu gore thereso, toka le khutso nageng di kgafetswe thoko bjang le gona ka m…
Wiping away the Tears of the Ocean
This article distinguishes between pan-Africanism and pan-Africanness. It argues that the history of pan-Africanism is replete with achievements but that the achievements could have been more and radical if the movement had from its inception adopted pan-Africanness, manifesting itself as ubuntu , as its point of departure. It focuses on epistemic and material injustice and suggests that there cannot be social justice without epistemic justice. T…
Introduction
In general, parents are known to be concerned about the future of their children. One or more reasons may be the grounds for their concern. The reasons may be different but often some of them are interconnected. They all arise from the context within which they themselves as well as their children are situated. The family is the immediate context. Since the family does not exist in an isolated and exclusive vacuum, its relation to the village, ci…
On the contested meaning of ‘philosophy’
The thesis to be defended in this essay is that the meaning, and by implication the use, of philosophy continues to be contested. I will focus primarily on philosophy in South Africa in order to elucidate this thesis. In doing so, I will argue that the future of philosophy in South Africa lies precisely in the willingness to contest its meaning and use. Such a contestation must be in the form of a dialogue predicated on the principle of the equal…
Transcender le cosmopolitisme
In general, discussion about cosmopolitanism is predicated on the assumption of community either already existing or yet to be realised. A common feature of this assumption is that community represents the boundary of “us” inclusion and exclusion of “the other”. Accordingly, the strife to reach out to “the other” constitutes the quest for the cosmos – order – and its realisation is cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism is thus based on the ontology of…
Transcending Cosmopolitanism
In general, discussion about cosmopolitanism is predicated on the assumption of community either already existing or yet to be realised. A common feature of this assumption is that community represents the boundary of "us" inclusion and exclusion of "the other". Accordingly, the strife to reach out to "the other" constitutes the quest for the cosmos - order - and its realisation is cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism is thus based on the ontology of…
Birth, death and Ruth
The birth of a particular individual is contingent even though the docRine of creation out of nothing teaches otherwise. Birth is an ontological invitation alerting the individual to inevitable death. In the intervening period along the path to death the individual is locked in the existential quest for Ruth. During his lifetime Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, was engaged in the complex quest for Ruth. His engagement in the search of the Ruth of and about…
But Hans Kelsen was not born in Africa
I argue that Metz’s undertaking, in seeking a ‘comprehensive basic norm’ to underpin African ethics, is similar to Hans Kelsen’s postulation of the Grundnorm in his Pure Theory of Law. But African ethics does not need to be underpinned by an approach such as Kelsen’s. In my view, Metz’s preference for seeking to develop a Grundnorm rests upon a failure to attend carefully to the distinctness of African ethical thinking from Western ethical thinki…
I doubt, therefore African philosophy exists
In this essay the question whether or not African philosophy exists is considered through an examination of the meaning of doubt. In St. Augustine and Descartes the basic presupposition with regard to doubt is the indubitable certainty that the doubting subject must exist before there can be any doubt at all. By parity of reasoning, African philosophy must first exist before it can doubt its own existence or be doubted by another. The origin and …
I doubt, therefore African philosophy exists
In this essay the question whether or not African philosophy exists is considered through an examination of the meaning of doubt. In St. Augustine and Descartes the basic presupposition with regard to doubt is the indubitable certainty that the doubting subject must exist before there can be any doubt at all. By parity of reasoning, African philosophy must first exist before it can doubt its own existence or be doubted by another. The origin and …
On the contested meaning of ‘philosophy’
The thesis to be defended in this essay is that the meaning, and by implication the use, of philosophy continues to be contested. I will focus primarily on philosophy in South Africa in order to elucidate this thesis. In doing so, I will argue that the future of philosophy in South Africa lies precisely in the willingness to contest its meaning and use. Such a contestation must be in the form of a dialogue predicated on the principle of the equal…
Towards a post-conquest South Africa
Sebakwa taodisong ye ke gore bao bago tseyelwa naga ka dikgoka ba nale tokelo ya go lwela gore naga ya bona e boele go bona. Ye ke tokelo yeo molaotheo wa 1996 o e gatakileng wa etsa okare sebakwa gase gore naga ye yago bitswa Afrika-Borwa ke bafenyi yona e sa amogilwe bana ba mabu. Taodisong ye re tla fetleka sebakwa se go tswa matlhakoreng a fapafapaneng re lebisitse kudu gore thereso, toka le khutso nageng di kgafetswe thoko bjang le gona ka m…
Wiping away the Tears of the Ocean
This article distinguishes between pan-Africanism and pan-Africanness. It argues that the history of pan-Africanism is replete with achievements but that the achievements could have been more and radical if the movement had from its inception adopted pan-Africanness, manifesting itself as ubuntu , as its point of departure. It focuses on epistemic and material injustice and suggests that there cannot be social justice without epistemic justice. T…
Introduction
In general, parents are known to be concerned about the future of their children. One or more reasons may be the grounds for their concern. The reasons may be different but often some of them are interconnected. They all arise from the context within which they themselves as well as their children are situated. The family is the immediate context. Since the family does not exist in an isolated and exclusive vacuum, its relation to the village, ci…
When ukucelwa ukuzalwa becomes bride price
The attempted erasure and inferiorisation of indigenous languages by the colonisers have robbed and continue to rob African people of the authority to self-define. As a result, numerous knowledge forms African languages transmit have disappeared or lost meaning. With vehement calls from African people, world over, to reclaim African ways of being, we have decided to explore the manner in which language is central to reclaiming of African healing …
Thought and practice in African philosophy
...
Transcending Cosmopolitanism
In general, discussion about cosmopolitanism is predicated on the assumption of community either already existing or yet to be realised. A common feature of this assumption is that community represents the boundary of "us" inclusion and exclusion of "the other". Accordingly, the strife to reach out to "the other" constitutes the quest for the cosmos - order - and its realisation is cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism is thus based on the ontology of…
I doubt, therefore African philosophy exists
In this essay the question whether or not African philosophy exists is considered through an examination of the meaning of doubt. In St. Augustine and Descartes the basic presupposition with regard to doubt is the indubitable certainty that the doubting subject must exist before there can be any doubt at all. By parity of reasoning, African philosophy must first exist before it can doubt its own existence or be doubted by another. The origin and …
But Hans Kelsen was not born in Africa
I argue that Metz’s undertaking, in seeking a ‘comprehensive basic norm’ to underpin African ethics, is similar to Hans Kelsen’s postulation of the Grundnorm in his Pure Theory of Law. But African ethics does not need to be underpinned by an approach such as Kelsen’s. In my view, Metz’s preference for seeking to develop a Grundnorm rests upon a failure to attend carefully to the distinctness of African ethical thinking from Western ethical thinki…
Birth, death and Ruth
The birth of a particular individual is contingent even though the docRine of creation out of nothing teaches otherwise. Birth is an ontological invitation alerting the individual to inevitable death. In the intervening period along the path to death the individual is locked in the existential quest for Ruth. During his lifetime Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, was engaged in the complex quest for Ruth. His engagement in the search of the Ruth of and about…
Transcender le cosmopolitisme
In general, discussion about cosmopolitanism is predicated on the assumption of community either already existing or yet to be realised. A common feature of this assumption is that community represents the boundary of “us” inclusion and exclusion of “the other”. Accordingly, the strife to reach out to “the other” constitutes the quest for the cosmos – order – and its realisation is cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism is thus based on the ontology of…
Transcending Cosmopolitanism
In general, discussion about cosmopolitanism is predicated on the assumption of community either already existing or yet to be realised. A common feature of this assumption is that community represents the boundary of "us" inclusion and exclusion of "the other". Accordingly, the strife to reach out to "the other" constitutes the quest for the cosmos - order - and its realisation is cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism is thus based on the ontology of…
Introduction
In general, parents are known to be concerned about the future of their children. One or more reasons may be the grounds for their concern. The reasons may be different but often some of them are interconnected. They all arise from the context within which they themselves as well as their children are situated. The family is the immediate context. Since the family does not exist in an isolated and exclusive vacuum, its relation to the village, ci…
On the contested meaning of ‘philosophy’
The thesis to be defended in this essay is that the meaning, and by implication the use, of philosophy continues to be contested. I will focus primarily on philosophy in South Africa in order to elucidate this thesis. In doing so, I will argue that the future of philosophy in South Africa lies precisely in the willingness to contest its meaning and use. Such a contestation must be in the form of a dialogue predicated on the principle of the equal…
Wiping away the Tears of the Ocean
This article distinguishes between pan-Africanism and pan-Africanness. It argues that the history of pan-Africanism is replete with achievements but that the achievements could have been more and radical if the movement had from its inception adopted pan-Africanness, manifesting itself as ubuntu , as its point of departure. It focuses on epistemic and material injustice and suggests that there cannot be social justice without epistemic justice. T…
Towards a post-conquest South Africa
Sebakwa taodisong ye ke gore bao bago tseyelwa naga ka dikgoka ba nale tokelo ya go lwela gore naga ya bona e boele go bona. Ye ke tokelo yeo molaotheo wa 1996 o e gatakileng wa etsa okare sebakwa gase gore naga ye yago bitswa Afrika-Borwa ke bafenyi yona e sa amogilwe bana ba mabu. Taodisong ye re tla fetleka sebakwa se go tswa matlhakoreng a fapafapaneng re lebisitse kudu gore thereso, toka le khutso nageng di kgafetswe thoko bjang le gona ka m…
On Finding the Cinerarium for Uncremated Ubuntu
Science is the construction of knowledge according to prescribed standards and procedures. Experience and common sense knowledge are the necessary basis for the construction of scientific knowledge. The latter distinguishes itself from the former precisely by including only the selected fragments from the former and then elevating the fragments to “scientific knowledge.” The split of the human being into “emotion” and “reason” is an arbitrary fra…
Reincarnation, resurrection and the question of representation
This article discusses critically the problems and significance of the concepts of reincarnation and the resurrection. It focuses on the contemporary debate on this topic between Robert Almeder and Stephen Hales. The Akan understanding of these concepts is invoked showing the contrast and,even comparison between the African and the Western understanding of the concepts. It is suggested in this article that the arguments for these concepts could s…
Thought and practice in African philosophy
...
Challenging the teaching of research methodologies in pursuit of epistemic and social justice in South Africa
Bana ba thari ya Afrika Borwa ba tšeyetšwe mabu a bona. Kamogo ye ya naga yešo ebile ka marumo mola thuto ya bathupi ba naga ba go tšwa moše wa mawatle e be e laetša gabotse gore ntwa ebe ese ya swanela go fegwa. Bathupi ba rile go fenya ba hlalosa gore ba ithwešitše “tokelo ya phenyo”. Go ya ka bona, tokelo ye e ba fa maatla a bofenyi. Maatla a ba netefatša ka wona gore bafengwa ba tla phela ka mokgwa yo bafenyi ba ratang ka gona. Le ge ba fentš…
Better see than look at Ramose
This is a reply to Cees Maris. He wrote two articles in Dutch purporting to be a dialogue with Mogobe Ramose. The two articles have subsequently been compressed into one and published in the South African Journal of Philosophy. Mogobe’s reply is directed at all three articles, meaning the two published in Dutch together with the one published in English. The core of the argument is the meaning of ubu-ntu against ubuntu. The former is a philosophi…
When ukucelwa ukuzalwa becomes bride price
The attempted erasure and inferiorisation of indigenous languages by the colonisers have robbed and continue to rob African people of the authority to self-define. As a result, numerous knowledge forms African languages transmit have disappeared or lost meaning. With vehement calls from African people, world over, to reclaim African ways of being, we have decided to explore the manner in which language is central to reclaiming of African healing …
Race Is an Indivisible Singular but Practice Insists It Is a Frangible Plural
Morafe ke bongwe bjo bosa kgaoganego eupja setlwaedi se laetja kgaogano go ya ka merafe Dinyakishisho di supa gore magareng ga batho, morafe ke yo tee fela; ke morafe wa batho. Ya go bitjwa DNA ka Sekgowa e laetja go sena pelaelo gore batho kamoka ke bana ba legoro le lelapa le tee. Ka bjalo, morafe wa batho ga o a tshwanela go kgaolwa dikgaokgao. Bophelong bja ka metlha re bona gore ba gona bao ba gananago le taba ye. Ba ema ka la gore go nale m…
Africa’s Political Kingdom and the Albatross of Economic Bondage
Kwame Nkrumah wa Ghana o ile a thekga thuto ya gore ntwa ya Afrika ya tokologo, kgatlhanong le mafase a bokoloniale a Bodikela, moo Afrika e neng e lwešwa mo ntweng ya go tlhoka toka, ntwa ye ya tokologo e swanetše go re tlisetša “mmušo wa dipolotiki pele”. Tshepo e be e le gore “tše dingwe ka moka di tla latela.” Thuto e, e kwana gabotse le seo Mateo 6:33 mo puku-kgethwa e se bolelang, gomme go laetša gore go na le kgokagano ye e raraganego maga…
Are our parents our neighbours? An ubu-ntu perspective on the golden rule with regard to ageing
Modu wa tabaLegae ke karolo ye botlhokwa ya setshaba. Tabakgolo mo taodishong ye ke go araba potjisho ye: na ke tshwanelo gore bana ba ishe batswadi ba bona kgole kua madulong a batsofe? Re araba potjisho ye ka go ganetja bana ba ba phedilego gabotse basa babjwe go isha batswadi mafelong a botsofe. Re tloga re bontsha le gore kgale-kgale gona mafatsheng a Bodikela gobe go na le motlhalefi bare ke Cicero. Le yena o kwana le kganetjo ye moka le mor…
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