Volume 4, Issue 2, December 2012
Odera Oruka Seventeen Years On
Oriare Nyarwath
Pages 75-96
Understanding Social Freedom and Humanism in Odera Oruka’s Philosophy
H. Odera Oruka’s philosophy, as can be discerned from his various works, revolves around the issue of social justice. In this paper I seek to show how Oruka’s idea of social justice is inextricably bound up with his conceptions of human rights and humanism, and his contention that one of the fundamental principles of social justice is the recognition and realization of the human minimum as the most basic universal human right.