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UBUNTU, how can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad?

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Ubuntu

An anthropologist proposed a game to the kids in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the kids that who ever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats. When he asked them why they had run like that as one could have had all the fruits for himself they said:
”UBUNTU, how can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad?”

 ‘UBUNTU’ in the Xhosa culture means: “I am because we are”

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Passionate about human potential, Christine Miller is an entrepreneurial author, poet and results-orientated business and personal growth strategist who inspires and shows people how to create richer, more resourceful, fulfilling and compassionate lives of spirit and heart so that they spend more time doing what they love – and loving what they do.
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  1. מחשבות על התערבות ממשלתית (וקצת איין ראנד) 1 | ד"ר עידו לב – Dr. Iddo Lev says:
    October 21, 2013 at 10:15 pm

    […] יחד עם זאת, המשפט שלה "התכלית המוסרית העליונה ביותר בחייו של אדם היא הפעולה להגדלת הרווחה והאושר שלו עצמו" לדעתי לוקה בחסר חמור. המשפט הוא אמנם האמת, אך לא כל האמת. זועק כאן חסרונו של החצי השני, שמתייחס לאחרים ולחיבור מעבר ל"עצמי". הייתי מתקן את דבריה בערך כך: התכלית המוסרית העליונה ביותר בחייו של אדם היא הפעולה להגדלת הרווחה והאושר שלו ושל כולם (עד כמה שניתן), ומבלי שאחד מהם יבוא על חשבון השני". התוספת הזו היא קריטית, משום שבלעדיה, אין דבר שמונע מאדם לפגוע באחרים לטובתו האישית. אפילו אם נוסיף את הסיפא שלה "ומבלי להקריב אחרים למען עצמו", עדיין חסרים כאן ערכי האכפתיות, החמלה, והאחריות החברתית. אפשר ללמוד הרבה מהערך אובונטו: מילה שמשמעותה מכילה, בין היתר, את ההבנה, שאדם אינו יכול להיות מאושר באמת כל עוד בסביבתו יש אנשים אומללים, ושהאנושיות של כל אחד מאיתנו תלויה וקשורה באנושיות של כל האחרים (ראו כאן). […]

    Translation via Google:
    However, her trial “highest moral purpose of one’s life is action to increase the welfare and happiness of his own” severely lacking in my opinion. Although the law is the truth, but not the whole truth . Crying here the absence of the other half, who treats others and connect beyond our Self. ” I correct her in something like this: moral purpose top of one’s life is action to increase the welfare and happiness of his and everyone (as much as possible), and without one of them will come at the expense of another. “this addition is critical, because without it, nothing prevents a person from harm others for his personal benefit., even if we add the last part of her “and without sacrificing others for himself”, still missing here the values ​​of caring, compassion, and social responsibility. could learn a lot from the value Ubuntu : word meaning contains, among other things, the understanding that a person can not be happy Really as long as there are people around him miserable, and humanity of each of us depends on and is related to the humanity of each other

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