Quest for unity in South Africa: a philosophical perspective

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show why the stokvel is a model of unity that is worth emulating.

Unity for the wrong reasons reduces social cooperation to whatever happens to benefit a particular person or group. Under these circumstances, political, economic and social relationships become a zero-sum game in which one group profits at the expense of another. Society is divided into winners and losers, with the latter paying the price for the benefits accruing to the former.

Unity for the right reasons, on the other hand, is based on principle rather than mere self-interest. The most promising principle here isWhen members of a society believe that no one benefits unfairly from participating in the economy or upholding the law, they have good reasons to keep on cooperating with one another. Fairness is not measured only in terms of the size of each one’s share, but also in terms of the rules of the cooperation itself.

 

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