Introduction Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze’s insightful critique of ubuntu, first expressed in his paper ‘Between History and the Gods: Reason, Morality, and Politics in Today’s Africa’ and in his book On Reason: Rationality in a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism (Eze 2008a, 2008b) shows the theoretical shortcomings of ubuntu as a philosophical tool that may inform how philosophy reflects on the political. Eze argues that ubuntu as an extraordinary moral framework, may be ill-suited to capture ordinary experiences and subsequently pass appropriate judgement. Further, Eze asserts that to protect philosophy from unphilosophical encroachments, such as politics, we need to maintain a strict distinction between politics and the moral and philosophy. Such a distinction, in his view, would enable philosophy to turn itself into good philosophy that is free of ideological influences and commitments. In order for philosophy to do its philosophical tasks well, it has to stand up for and defend a specific form of reason that Eze identifies as ordinary reason. What I seek to do is to reaffirm Eze’s arguments, against ubuntu, in the three main sections that this paper is divided into. The first section will

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重温以Ubuntu为中心的Eze：质疑政治优先于哲学

简介伊曼纽尔·楚科迪·埃泽（Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze）对ubuntu的见解深刻，最早在他的论文《历史与众神之间：当今非洲的理性，道德和政治》和《理性：文化冲突和种族主义世界中的合理性》（Eze 2008a ，2008b）显示了ubuntu作为一种哲学工具的理论缺陷，它可能会告诉人们哲学是如何反映政治的。Eze认为，ubuntu作为一个非凡的道德框架，可能不适合捕捉普通的经验并随后通过适当的判断。此外，埃兹断言，要保护哲学免受诸如政治之类的非哲学侵害，我们需要在政治与道德与哲学之间保持严格的区分。他认为，这种区别 可以使哲学转变为不受意识形态影响和承诺的好的哲学。为了使哲学很好地完成其哲学任务，它必须支持并捍卫以斯结认为普通理性的特定形式的理性。我要做的是在本文分为三个主要部分中重申Eze反对ubuntu的论点。第一部分将