Browsing Gywneth Paltrow’s new lifestyle website Goop – tagline: nourish the inner aspect – I came across this rather interesting concept.
Ubuntu means seeing yourself, not as an individual, but as part of wider web of humanity, through your relationships with others.
Desmond Tutu has described the philosophy as:
“A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.”
Surely a good code to live by?
Interestingly, ubuntu is also is a Linux-based operating system…
