PHILOSOPHY OF UTUISM AND ITS POSITIVE AFFIRMATION
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Utuism and Positive AffirmationAbstract
This article presents activities that demonstrates and actualizes utuism in the life of a man and his surroundings. It is important to note that having an aspect of utuism serves as a daily engagement to the reality of being truly human, consciously active towards the other person and actualizing the self in the mode of our very being. Utuism would be an on-going individual positive struggle to shun off anything that would in any way demean the human integrity and dignity. It is a positive response towards the suffering other, and a relational celebration of life in the other human person and with the other human person.
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