Justice-based ethics: Challenging South African perspectives

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Chris Jones

Synopsis

The book reflects academically on important and relevant ethical fields from a multidimensional South African context. The book challenges conventional borders with insight and expertise from different ethical, theological, philosophical, economic, and cultural perspectives. It seeks to add academic-ethical value, locally and globally, with its different points of departure deeply embedded in justice. From a mainly qualitative methodological perspective, this scholarly book demonstrates that ethics requires analytical thinking and critical people who, in an existentially and emancipatory way, can help make the world a more just, decent and humane place in which to live.

The authors, who represent different academic and cultural backgrounds, present in their respective chapters their research systematically, intersectionally and constructivistically, based on profound theoretical analysis and reasoning. This epistemology results in the act of knowing that actively gives meaning and order to the reality to which it is responding. By doing this, they point out that people are in an ongoing process of becoming more human – allowing ourselves and our fellow human beings to flourish and reach fuller potential through justice-based ethical reflection and action.

Chapters

  • Chapter 1
    The right to interpret: Epistemic justice for women in South Africa
    Louise du Toit
  • Chapter 2
    The new biotechnologies: Nirvana, or Prometheus and Frankenstein? Ethics and the Biotechnology Revolution of our time
    Anton A van Niekerk
  • Chapter 3
    Afrocentric journalism for Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance: An ethical imperative
    Simphiwe Sesanti
  • Chapter 4
    Theological-ethical contours for the full inclusion of LGBTIQ+ bodies in the church
    Hanzline R Davids, Chris Jones
  • Chapter 5
    Blue is the warmest colour: Theology, ethics, water
    Nadia Marais
  • Chapter 6
    Meaningful economic reform for South Africa – is there a prescription?
    André Roux
  • Chapter 7
    Health and brokenness: Aren’t we all clay jars? An ethical reflection on health and brokenness
    Pieter van Niekerk
  • Chapter 8
    Borders, belonging and human rights in South Africa
    Judy-Ann Cilliers
  • Chapter 9
    Decolonising knowledge: Current conversations on racism, identity and decolonisation within the higher education sector in South Africa
    Leslie van Rooi
  • Chapter 10
    Cultural violence or a culture of violence? An ethical unmasking of (sexual) violence in South Africa
    Funlola Olojede

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