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Human dignity : a socialist conception of God's image in Ujamaa philosophy
Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2024.
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| author | Ndaro, Lucas Burenga |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/131857 Human dignity : a socialist conception of God's image in Ujamaa philosophy Ndaro, Lucas Burenga Van der Merwe, W. L. Mahokoto, Sipho Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Theology. Dept. of Systematic Theology & Ecclesiology. Dignity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Christian sociology UCTD Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2024. ENGLISH SUMMARY: Discourse on human dignity intensified in legal, ethical, and political charters after the Second World War and one aspect of the debate concerned the ambiguities of whether dignity is inherently permanent or destructible. This study addresses this lacuna and, in agreement with David Kirchhoffer and Augustine Onwubiko, differentiates inherent dignity from acquired dignity and avoids the impasse of a reductionist approach in support of Nyerere’s description of dignity as humanness or personhood. The argument develops through the analysis of dignity in previous legal and religious discourses, traditional practices of Ujamaa dignity, Ujamaa dignity in theology and philosophy, and the practices of dignity in the policies of Ujamaa socialism. The section on legal and religious discourse addresses human dignity and God’s image as descriptors of humanness and as violable and in need of human rights protection. The section on traditional Ujamaa noted the roots of homogeneous ancestries, as illustrated by Chief Nyerere’s own household, which Mwalimu Nyerere emphasized as roots for the type of intertribal Ujamaa that respected the community’s common need and common duty to prove the common dignity, common good, and common equality of all members of the community. The section on Ujamaa theology and anthropology focuses primarily on the creation model that delineates the intertribal and interracial dignity and equality of the human species irrespective of their nonessential differences and the realm that the Creator and the created share without distinctions of sacred and profane. The section on Ujamaa socialism focuses on the dignity of national freedom, the restoration of Ujamaa attitudes, and the dignity of human and economic development. It became evident that dignity and image function as descriptor of humanness and personhood from creation and through procreation, a personhood that God and humanity share unequally but uniquely as members of God’s clan and will provide a clarification on the nature of divine and human personhood. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Juridiese, etiese, en politieke diskoerse oor menswaardigheidhet sterk ontwikkel na die Tweede Wereldoorlog. Een aspekvan dié ontwikkelinge het betrekking op die vraag of waardigheid inherent en gegewe is of juis nie. Die proefskrifspreek hierdie vraag aan en, in ooreenstemming met David Kirchhoffer en Augustine Onwubiko, onderskei dit inherente waardigheid van verworve waardigheid en vermy die impasse van 'n reducerende benadering ter ondersteuning van Nyererese beskrywing van waardigheid as menslikheid of persoon-wees. Die argument ontwikkel deur die ontleding van waardigheid in eerdere regs- en godsdienstige diskussies en dokumente, tradisionele praktyke van Ujamaa as waardigheid, Ujamaa as waardig heid in teologie en filosofie, en die praktyke van waardigheid in die beleid van Ujamaasosialisme. Die afdeling oor regs- en godsdienstige diskoerse gaan oor die verband tussen menswaardigheid en die mens as beelddraervan God, dus van menslikheid as definierende gegewe en daarom grond vir menseregte en die beskerming daarvan. Die afdeling oor tradisionele Ujamaa bespreek Nyerere se beklemtoning van stamverwantskap, soos ook die belang van sy eie stam- en familieverwanskap, en hoe dit verband hou met sy waardering vir intertribale Ujamaa as gemeenskaplikewaardigheid van die gemeenskap, plig tot en vir die gemeenskap, gemeenskaplike besit, en gelykheid en gelykwaardigheid van alle lede van die gemeenskap. Die afdeling oor Ujamaa teologie en antropologie fokushoofsaaklik op die skeppingsmodel wat die intertribale en interrassige waardigheid en gelykheid van die mensheid begrond, ongeag die onderlinge nie-essensiele verskille tussen mense. Dit beklemtoon die gemeenskap tussen God as Skepper en die mens as skepsel ongeag die onderskeid tussen die heilige en die profane. Die afdeling oor Ujamaa sosialisme fokus op die verband tussen waardigheid en politieke vryheid, die herstel van die ingesteldhede van Ujamaa, en die belang van menslike en ekonomiese ontwikkeling vir menswaardigheid. Die slotsom is dat menswaardigheid, spesifiek in die persoon-wees van die mens, vanaf die skepping en met die voortbestaan van die mens as “beelddraer van God” gegewe is. In hierdie persoon-wees, is God en die mensheid ongelyk maar nogtansdeelgenote in die een familie of “stam” van God. Doctoral 2025-04-03T10:11:05Z 2025-04-03T10:11:05Z 2024-12 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/131857 Stellenbosch University xiii, 312 pages : illustrations, includes annexures application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Dignity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Christian sociology UCTD Ndaro, Lucas Burenga Human dignity : a socialist conception of God's image in Ujamaa philosophy |
| title | Human dignity : a socialist conception of God's image in Ujamaa philosophy |
| title_full | Human dignity : a socialist conception of God's image in Ujamaa philosophy |
| title_fullStr | Human dignity : a socialist conception of God's image in Ujamaa philosophy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Human dignity : a socialist conception of God's image in Ujamaa philosophy |
| title_short | Human dignity : a socialist conception of God's image in Ujamaa philosophy |
| title_sort | human dignity a socialist conception of god s image in ujamaa philosophy |
| topic | Dignity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Christian sociology UCTD |
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