CONFLUENCE BETWEEN THE PRINCIPLES OF UBUNTU PHILOSOPHY AND THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD LIVING

Abstract

This article is an excerpt from the Dissertation entitled Confluence between Quilombo do Matão and Kaxarari People: rivers of ancestry and ways of life. In this article we expose the theoretical basis of the Ubuntu philosophy and the indigenous worldview of Good Living. The African Philosophy expressed by Ubuntu and Good Living whose foundations are in reciprocity between people, in the existence of the community, in coexistence with other beings and in its deep respect for the earth. We can go ahead and say that it was Africa that taught the rest of the world to do philosophy, because although the word is etymologically Greek, its content and form are born from human experience, from the ground of life in order to understand through attempts the inexplicable that was experienced. by African philosophers, cradle of humanity. Indigenous Good Living encompasses many dimensions and meanings, as it expresses, at the same time, memory and reciprocity. On the one hand, memory with an ancestry of the people whose knowledge continues to live in traditions and in an ethics of life that orders the community; on the other, reciprocity with Nature as a microorganism of the Earth organism. The main authors in our exhibition will be Castiano (2010), Yves Goduka (2000) for the Ubuntu Philosophy and Ailton Krenak (2020) and Salazar (2016) for the Good Living worldview. In this way, the Ubuntu philosophy, in the experience of the Bantu people, and the philosophy of Good Living, in the worldview of the indigenous peoples who inhabit Abya Yala, recognize the relationship between all the elements that make up an organism that makes life possible and, to a certain extent, its principles converge in ways of living and ancestry.