{"id":646,"date":"2026-04-05T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/?page_id=646"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:20:45","slug":"ubuntu-and-the-metz-ramose-debate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/ubuntu-and-the-metz-ramose-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu and the Metz-Ramose Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Essay that I wrote for the <em>Political Theory from the Global South<\/em> course at Leiden University &#8217;23-&#8217;24. Supervised by Dr P.M. Mosima who suggested the new title (<em>Ubuntu and the Metz-Ramose Debate<\/em>). Dr Mosima is as of recently (&#8217;26 term 2) now also affiliated with Leiden University as a professor for the <em>World Philosophies: Africa<\/em> at the <em>Global and Comparative <\/em>studies of philosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All errors are mine. I am gratefull to Dr Mosima for his support. Leiden University is very much <em>richer <\/em>with his presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Different-Conceptions-of-Ubuntu-in-Political-Theory-from-the-Global-South-Harmen-Scholte.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Different Conceptions of Ubuntu in Political Theory from the Global South, Harmen Scholte.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-e75ea704-e2ee-4a58-9dad-07f6578135c8\" href=\"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Different-Conceptions-of-Ubuntu-in-Political-Theory-from-the-Global-South-Harmen-Scholte.pdf\">Different Conceptions of Ubuntu in Political Theory from the Global South, Harmen Scholte<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Different-Conceptions-of-Ubuntu-in-Political-Theory-from-the-Global-South-Harmen-Scholte.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-e75ea704-e2ee-4a58-9dad-07f6578135c8\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essay that I wrote for the Political Theory from the Global South course at Leiden University &#8217;23-&#8217;24. Supervised by Dr P.M. Mosima who suggested the new title (Ubuntu and the Metz-Ramose Debate). Dr Mosima is as of recently (&#8217;26 term 2) now also affiliated with Leiden University as a professor for the World Philosophies: Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-646","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/646\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}