{"product_id":"ubuntu-an-african-jurisprudence-paperback","title":"Ubuntu: An African Jurisprudence - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBennett Tom\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMunro Ar\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eJacobs Pj\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUbuntu: An African Jurisprudence examines how and why South African\u003cbr\u003e courts and law-makers have been using the concept of ubuntu over the\u003cbr\u003e last thirty years, reflecting the views of judges and scholars, and above\u003cbr\u003e all proclaiming the importance of this new idea for South African legal\u003cbr\u003e thinking. Although ubuntu is the product of relations in and between the\u003cbr\u003e close-knit groups of a precolonial society, its basic aims - social harmony\u003cbr\u003e and caring for others - give it an inherently inclusive scope. This principle\u003cbr\u003e is therefore quite capable of embracing all those who constitute the\u003cbr\u003e heterogeneous populations of modern states.\u003cbr\u003e Included in this work are discussions of two traditional institutions that\u003cbr\u003e provide model settings for the realisation of ubuntu: imbizo, national\u003cbr\u003e gatherings consulted by traditional rulers to decide matters of general\u003cbr\u003e concern, and indaba, a typically African process of making decisions\u003cbr\u003e based on the consensus of the group. Courts and law-makers have used\u003cbr\u003e imbizo to give effect to the constitutional requirement of participatory\u003cbr\u003e democracy, and indaba to suggest an alternative method of decisionmaking\u003cbr\u003e to systems of majority voting.\u003cbr\u003e Ubuntu offers something extraordinarily valuable to South Africa and, in\u003cbr\u003e fact, to the wider world. Its emphasis on our responsibility for the welfare\u003cbr\u003e of our fellow beings acts as a timely antidote not only to the typically\u003cbr\u003e rationalist, disinterested system of justice in Western law, but also to the\u003cbr\u003e sense of anomie so prevalent in today's society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 226\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52697914474803,"sku":"9781485126713","price":47.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/bysxZmJld2NNdzJkQTNQdW5qL2FRUT09.webp?v=1763150326","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/ubuntu-an-african-jurisprudence-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}