Michael Onyebuchi Eze

Michael Onyebuchi Eze is a Nigerian philosopher, historian of ideas, and political theorist known for his scholarship on Ubuntu, African philosophy, decolonization, and transitional justice. Quotes "A person is a person through other people." Michael Onyebuchi Eze discussing the philosophical meaning of Ubuntu in I am because you are, UNESCO Courier (2018). I remove "A person is a person through people strikes an affirmation of one's humanity through recognition of an 'other' in his or her uniqueness and difference." Michael Onyebuchi Eze explaining Ubuntu as recognition of the humanity of the other in Ubuntu philosophy, citing his published work. "Humanity is a quality we owe to each other." Michael Onyebuchi Eze discussing mutual responsibility and personhood through Ubuntu. "We create each other and need to sustain this otherness creation." Michael Onyebuchi Eze explaining Ubuntu as a process of reciprocal human formation. "We are because you are, and since you are, definitely I am." Michael Onyebuchi Eze discussing relational personhood in Ubuntu philosophy, UNESCO Courier (2018). "The 'I am' is not a rigid subject, but a dynamic self-constitution dependent on this otherness creation of relation and distance." Michael Onyebuchi Eze discussing the relational conception of the self in Ubuntu philosophy. External links