Ubuntu philosophy
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Ubuntu is an African ethic or humanist philosophy focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other. Some believe that ubuntu is a classical African philosophy or worldview whereas others point out that the idea that ubuntu as a philosophy or worldview has developed in written sources in recent years. The word has its origin in the Bantu languages of southern Africa.
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See also
- Hakuna matata
- Ahimsa, important tenet of the Indian religions
- Ethic of Reciprocity (The Golden Rule)
- Fihavanana, Malagasy concept of kinship, friendship, goodwill between beings
- Harambee, a Kenyan tradition of community self-help events, literally meaning "all pull together" in Swahili
- Hillel the Elder
- Humaneness (rén) in Confucianism
- I and Thou
- Master-slave dialectic
- Mensch
- Mitakuye Oyasin
- Ohana in Hawaiian culture, ʻohana means family in an extended sense of the term including blood-related, adoptive or intentional
- Proletarian internationalism
- Sarvodaya, a term coined by Mahatma Gandhi, meaning 'universal uplift' or 'progress of all'
- Ujamaa
- Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, a Sanskrit phrase that means that the whole World is one single family
- No man is an island
- Non nobis solum
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