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Responsibility and reciprocation : on the principles of an Afro-Communitarian theory of distributive justice
Thesis (PhD (Philosophy))--University of Pretoria, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/103291 Responsibility and reciprocation : on the principles of an Afro-Communitarian theory of distributive justice Metz, Thaddeus grahamdampier@gmail.com Dampier, Graham A. UCTD Distributive Justice Ubuntu Liberalism Communitarianism Virtue ethics Thesis (PhD (Philosophy))--University of Pretoria, 2024. This study critically explores major Anglo-American accounts of what should be distributed to ensure people can pursue a variety of ends in the demand for justice and the distributive principles needed to guarantee it. Wide-ranging disagreements about what is good for the individual and how to ensure she receives a justified share of it characterise this tradition. The value of participating in caring and supportive relationships with others as an important end for citizens to pursue and the part the community plays in supporting this way of relating do not feature as central priorities of this tradition. I propose an Afro-communitarian alternative that (a) defines the currency of justice as the goods, opportunities and resources needed to cultivate other-regarding virtues to relate with others in a caring and supportive way and (b) grounds its principle of distribution on the ideal of harmony. Pursuing harmony as a distributive ideal justifies both a sufficient level of access to the currency of justice and a moral maximum to how much individuals and communities may accumulate. Liberal exponents of the Anglo-American tradition account for the principles of distributive justice that enable individuals to pursue a wide variety of ends, but do not promote community with others as an objectively valuable end. In addition, after equality was rejected as a distributive ideal in the 1980s and 1990s, this tradition has not articulated a distributive ideal that justifies prioritising those who are worst-off while ensuring everyone meets a minimal standard of sufficiency and that no one exceeds a moral maximum. None Philosophy PhD (Philosophy) Unrestricted Faculty of Humanities SDG-10: Reduces inequalities 2025-07-10T12:14:01Z 2025-07-10T12:14:01Z 2025-09-30 2024-09-30 Thesis * S2025 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/103291 10.25403/UPresearchdata.29458685 en © 2024 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Distributive Justice Ubuntu Liberalism Communitarianism Virtue ethics Responsibility and reciprocation : on the principles of an Afro-Communitarian theory of distributive justice |
| title | Responsibility and reciprocation : on the principles of an Afro-Communitarian theory of distributive justice |
| title_full | Responsibility and reciprocation : on the principles of an Afro-Communitarian theory of distributive justice |
| title_fullStr | Responsibility and reciprocation : on the principles of an Afro-Communitarian theory of distributive justice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Responsibility and reciprocation : on the principles of an Afro-Communitarian theory of distributive justice |
| title_short | Responsibility and reciprocation : on the principles of an Afro-Communitarian theory of distributive justice |
| title_sort | responsibility and reciprocation on the principles of an afro communitarian theory of distributive justice |
| topic | UCTD Distributive Justice Ubuntu Liberalism Communitarianism Virtue ethics |
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