Personhood and (Rectification) Justice in African Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6214133 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Motsamai Molefe (0000-0002-5030-6222, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 352-367 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politikon (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0258-9346 • E-ISSN: 1470-1014 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02589346.2018.1435020 |
| OpenAlex | W2791590590 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article invokes the idea of personhood (which it takes to be at the heart of Afro-communitarian morality) to give an account of corrective/rectification justice. The idea of rectification justice by Robert Nozick is used heuristically to reveal the moral-theoretical resources availed by the idea of personhood to think about historical injustices and what would constitute a meaningful remedy for them. This notion of personhood has three facets: (1) a theory of moral status/dignity, (2) an account of historical conditions and (3) the achievement of moral excellence by the agent (personhood). This article argues that a just society is a function of (1) and (2), and it further argues that the aim of rectification justice is to correct these two facets of a society, which are necessary for (3) to be possible. The aim of correcting history just is to make personhood a possibility for all humanity, particularly of those who were victims of past injustices
Dignity · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Excellence · Humanity · Morality · Personhood · Political science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |