HUMA-Philosophy Lunchtime Seminar

Speaker: Motsamai Molefe (University of Fort Hare, South Africa)  

HUMA, in collaboration with University of Cape Town (UCT) Department of Philosophy, is hosting a special lunchtime seminar with Motsamai Molefe, on his book An African Ethics of Personhood and Bioethics: A Reflection on Abortion and Euthanasia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

Motsamai Molefe

About the speaker: Dr Motsamai Molefe is a senior researcher at the Centre for Leadership Ethics (CLEA) at University of Fort Hare, South Africa. His research focuses on African ethics, bioethics, development studies, environmental ethics, and social and political philosophy. He is the author of numerous works, including An African Philosophy of Personhood, Morality and Politics, published by Palgrave Macmillan (2019). 

About the book: This book explores the salient ethical idea of personhood in African philosophy. It is a philosophical exposition that pursues the ethical and political consequences of the normative idea of personhood as a robust or even foundational ethical category. Personhood refers to the moral achievements of the moral agent usually captured in terms of a virtuous character, which have consequences for both morality and politics. The aim is not to argue for the plausibility of the ethical and political consequences of the idea of personhood. Rather, the book showcases some of the moral-political content and consequences of the account it presents.