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Thaddeus Metz
Researcher at University of Pretoria
Publications - 159
Citations - 3307
Thaddeus Metz is an academic researcher from University of Pretoria. The author has contributed to research in topics: Meaning (existential) & Normative ethics. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 148 publications receiving 2772 citations. Previous affiliations of Thaddeus Metz include University of Johannesburg & University of Missouri.
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Toward an African Moral Theory
TL;DR: In the literature on African ethics, one finds relatively little that consists of normative theorization with regard to right action, that is, the articulation and justification of a comprehensive, basic norm that is intended to account for what all permissible acts have in common as distinct from impermissible ones as mentioned in this paper.
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The African ethic of Ubuntu/Botho: implications for research on morality
Thaddeus Metz,Joseph B.R. Gaie +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a theoretical reconstruction of sub-Saharan ethics that they argue is a strong competitor to typical Western approaches to morality, and highlight respects in which the African approach provides a unitary foundation for a variety of normative and empirical conclusions that are serious alternatives to dominant Western views.
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Ubuntu as a Moral Theory and Human Rights in South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, a moral theory grounded on Southern African world views is proposed, which suggests a promising new conception of human dignity, according to which typical human beings have a dignity by virtue of their capacity for community, understood as the combination of identifying with others and exhibiting solidarity with them.
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Meaning in Life
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore contemporary philosophical understandings of how meaning in life might depend on the presence, or absence, of an afterlife, and consider the plausibility of a more moderate view, that an eternal afterlife could substantially enhance the meaning of our lives, even if they would not be meaningless without it.
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An African Theory of Moral Status: A Relational Alternative to Individualism and Holism
TL;DR: In this paper, a modal-relational perspective is proposed to account for degrees of moral status in the English-speaking literature, according to which the greater a being's capacity to be part of a communal relationship with us, the greater its moral status.