Fundamentals of philosophy Ubuntu: afroperspectivas and african humanism

Abstract

The word Ubuntu comes from the Zulu and Xhosa languages of the southern African continent and
means humanity for all. In this sense, the Ubuntu Philosophy is based on an ethics of collectivity,
represented mainly by harmonious coexistence with the other and based on the category of “we”, as an integral member of a social whole. Thus, this work aims to reflect on the fundamentals of Ubuntu Philosophy, considering it as one of the several currents of African philosophy. Thus, it will be developed through a bibliographic search, requiring the use of the explanatory method. The Ubuntu Philosophy rescues the essence of being a person with the awareness that he is part of something bigger and collective. For that, according to the fundamentals of the Ubuntu Philosophy, we are people through other people and that we cannot be fully human alone, being made for
interdependence. In this context, it is based on the relationships between the divine, the community
and nature. However, the Ubuntu Philosophy seeks to rescue the concept of the Common to achieve democracy, that is, a multiplicity of singularities. For that, it has equality as a fundamental and conditional principle for the existence of the other.