Law, Social, and Humanity in Buginese Literature

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10.2991/amca-18.2018.41How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Law, social, humanity, Buginese literature

Abstract

Buginese literature is a form of masterpiece work of Bugis scholars which are loaded with various guidances both in the world and hereafter. Buginese literatures also regulate the law, social, and humanity that ultimately lead human beings into perfect. This study aims to describe Buginese literature as law, social, and humanity sources that regulate the life of Buginese society in order to establish guidance for human beings in the middle of modern and competitive life. In line with this, the writer applies qualitative descriptive research method through moral and sociology approaches. The data are obtained from Buginese works in the form of poetry, expression, folklore, and others. As the results of this research through several types analysis of Buginese literatures, it is obtained the conception that law, social, and humanity portray three important dimensions in Bugis life which cannot be separated in order to build perfect human beings in which there are signs that must be obeyed by every human being both vertically (human relationship with God) and horizontally (human relationships with fellow human beings), such as: honesty, justice, tolerance, firmness, bravery, alertness, and work ethic.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Besse Darmawati
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TI  - Law, Social, and Humanity in Buginese Literature
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Community Development (AMCA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 147
EP  - 149
SN  - 2352-5398
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