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A BIOGRAPHY OF CARDINAL OKOGIE AND THE NIGERIAN NATION ABSTRACT This study is centred on his eminence Anthony Cardinal Okojie (Catholic Archbishop of Lagos) his contributions to the Catholic Church Christianity and the Nigerian nation. This has became necessary in…
THESIS: THE CONCEPT OF ‘POWER’ AND ‘AUTHORITY’ IN NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI: AN ANALYSIS ABSTRACT In Aristotle’s evaluation of different constitutions, he considered some as better than others. One criterion was whether rule is conducted in the interest of rulers, or…
OSU IN A CONTEMPORARY IGBO SOCIETY: A CHRISTIAN THEOLOGICAL EVALUATION. ABSTRACT This study examines an agelong social phenomenon Osu Caste system among the Igbos of Eastern Nigeria. It investigates the origin and its persistence. Inspite of the overwhelming presence of…
THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN THE POLITICS OF DELTA STATE ABSTRACT Inspite of the religious was of the people of Delta State, the question of the role of religion in the politics of Delta State still stand as a major…
A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER’S CONCEPT OF BEING ABSTRACT The central focus of this work is to critically evaluate Heidegger’s concept of being and other related issues. Being has been a very intriguing issue that has held philosophers…
FEMINIST THEORY OF LITERACY CRITICISM CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Purpose of Study The purpose of this study is to exemplify Julie Okoh’s The Trials as a feminist text Scope of Study This research is limited to Julie Okoh’s text…
THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE ASSUMPTIONS OF REALISM LIES IN THE CONCEPT OF POWER CHAPTER ONE Background Study 0f the Work Introduction The state is the dominant actor in international relations. The treaty of Westphalia (1648), which formalized this sought…
AFRICAN TRADITIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH PRACTICES: BELIEFS AND CONCEPTS IN IHIALA L.G.A OF ANAMBRA STATE ABSTRACT Medical health practice is one of religious practice in African Tradition. It is a means of securing the lives of the individuals. Among all communities…
THE CONCEPTS OF SACRIFICE IN THE IGBO LAND TRADITIONAL RELIGION ABSTRACT Sacrifice is religion in practice, a means of expressing one’s intension to a divinity believed to exist. Sacrifice is seen in almost all human communities and religion. It definitely…
AN INSIGHT ON LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN LANGHANGE THEORY ABSTRACT This essay is a critical study of Ludwig Wittgenstein Language theory. Before we give a through explanation of the entire “essay,” an introduction is being made where the language is going to…
IMPACTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN NNEWI ANAMBRA STATE: THE ANGLICANS AS A CASE STUDY ABSTRACT Christianity as a religion has affected all spheres of life among the people of Nigeria. A careful study of the religious background of the Nnewi people…
RELIGION AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS ABSTRACT Religion can serve as a strong tool in fostering development in any country, but when not properly managed it can also mar same. In this case, the negative effect comes when …
GLOBALIZATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS ABSTRACT Globalization and economic development in Nigeria is one of the results of colonialism. It widens the gap between the rich and the poor; hence it is force of inequality which…
A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF J.J ROUSSEAU’s CONCEPT OF EDUCATION CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the study All that we lack at birth and need when grown up is given, to us by education. This education comes to us from nature,…
WESTERN CULTURE YORUBA CHAPTER ONE YOURBA AND WESTERN ETHICS 1.1. ETHICS There are many actions which we will condemn as morally wrong and ought not to be done by anybody, for example, stealing, murder, bribery aimed robbery and corruption e.t.c…
MORAL JUSTIFICATION OF THE STATE INTERFERENCE WITH RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE CITIZENS CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUN TO THE STUDY In the history of political philosophy there have been different views as to what relationship should exist between the citizens…
A CRITIQUE OF DAVID HUME EMPIRICISM CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1. BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The search for knowledge that is both absolute and certain has been continuous. However, since at least the time of Aristotle, there has been a strong…
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF AKAN AND YORUBA CONCEPTION OF A PERSON Abstract The concept of a person held by a group of people is fundamental in understanding not only how a person within such framework of thought views himself but…
A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF J.S MBITI’S AFRICAN’S CONCEPTION OF TIME ABSTRACT J.S Mbiti contended that Africans perceive time composition of events which must be lived through. He contended further, that one can from such ontology, arrive at the understanding of…
THE THEORY OF ARTS AND AESTHETICS, A REALITY TO CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: KATIAN APPROACH INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Aesthetics is a subset of philosophy that looks at the nature of art and our experience of it. It appeared in the course…
CONCEPT OF HUMAN EXISTENCE CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Philosophers such as Hegel, Fichte and Schelling development of metaphysical idealism were take n to be a great fault by Jacob Friedrich Fries. Fries opinion was that philosophical…
ASSESSMENT OF THE DEFENSE SYSTEM IN DIABETIC RATS TREATED WITH AQUEOUS LEAVES EXTRACT OF TERMINALIA CATAPPA CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The prevalence nature of micro-organisms caused the human body to develop a natural defense system against…
A CRITIQUE OF ROBERT NOZICK’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Robert Nozick (1938-2002) was an American philosopher, best known for his rigorous defense of libertarianism in his first major work, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974). During his high school and college years, Nozick…
A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF NIGERIAN FEDERALISM CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Soren Kierkegaard is regarded as the father of contemporary existentialism. Existentialism, according to J. I. Omoregbe (39) deals “with concrete existence as opposed to essence”. This…
WIRED PHILOSOPHY OF CONCENSUS: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF STUDY Falsification as a principle or theory which holds that for any hypothesis to be cognitively significant, true or scientific it must be inherently disprovable by experience…
AN EXAMINATION OF SOREN KERKKEGAARD’S NOTION OF HUMAN EXISTENCE CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Soren Kierkegaard is regarded as the father of contemporary existentialism. Existentialism, according to J. I. Omoregbe (39) deals “with concrete existence as opposed…
A CRITIQUE OF ROBERT NOZICK POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION Robert Nozick (1938-2002) was American philosopher, best known for his rigorous defense of libertarianism in his first major work, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974). During his high school and college years, Nozick…
A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF KARL POPPER’S FALSIFICATION PRINCIPLE CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Falsification as a principle or theory which holds that for any hypothesis to be cognitively significant, true or scientific it must be inherently disprovable…
A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF DAVID HUME’S CRITIQUE OF NATURAL RELIGION CHAPTER ONE METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATION STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM This research study is in the area of philosophy of religion. Joseph Omoregbe, in his book A philosophical look at Religion has…
Philosophical Evaluation Of Charles De Montesquieu’s Theory Of Separation Of Powers Vis- A- Vis The Practice Of Delegation Of Authority ABSTRACT The theory of separation of powers, according to Charles De Montesquieu, is founded on the desire for political liberty…
GANDHIAN CONCEPT OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE STATE – A CRITICAL (PHILOSOPHICAL) APPRAISAL ABSTRACT Social and political Philosophy has been saddled with the problem of the relationship between the individual and the state. This research focuses on the Gandhian concept…
A.j. Ayer And The Elimination Of Metaphysics ABSTRACT A.J Ayer a logical positivist and indeed at all his fellow logical positivists were moved by the achievements and clarities in science and as it were, they moved to bring these achievements…
UJAMAA IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF JULIUS NYERERE A CRITICAL ANALYSIS ABSTRACT In the slavish imitation of an alien way of life, the African created in himself a kind of desire for western ideals, value and culture, and devaluing of things. African…
The Role Of Thymos In The Progress Of History In The Light Of Francis Fukuyama’s The End Of History ABSTRACT Human history has witnessed a course of events which some philosophers have argued is directional. Nike AIR Max 2017 Dames While…
Feminism In The Philosophy Of Simone De Beauvoir A Critical Analysis ABSTRACT Feminism is one of the philosophical concepts that has raised a lot of controversies in all human societies. Nike AIR Max 2017 Goedkoop It is a theory, ideology and a…
Concept Of Good Government ABSTRACT Albert Einstein, in a letter to a Rumanian friend Maurice Solvine from Princeton U.S.A. Nike Air Max 2017 Heren Goedkoop on April 10, 1938, says: “A fashion rule each age, without most people being able to see…
Kant’s Criticism Of Metaphysics Review Of Its Implication For Metaphysics In Igbo Thought ABSTRACT Metaphysics can be defined as that branch of philosophy that studies reality in its most comprehensive scope and fundamental principles. Air Max 2015 Zwart Wit Goedkoop It is…
MACHIAVELLISM IN OBASANJO’S POLITICAL DISPENSATION: A PHILOSOPHICAL EVALUATION Abstract Machiavelli is one of the political philosophers who contributed immensely in the discourse of governance in our contemporary society. In The Prince he says that “he who builds on people builds…
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE MARXIST DOCTRINE OF ALIENATION AND IT’S RELEVANCE TO THE NIGERIAN SOCIETY.. ABSTRACT One of the fundamental issues of most socio-political debate in recent years is ALIENATION, which means “estrangement”. This essay will elucidate the doctrine of…
THE QUEST FOR POLITICAL POWER THROUGH VIOLENCE CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM While trying to echo Max Weber’s definition of state, C.W Mills categorically defined politics as a struggle for power and the ultimate form of…
FRIENDSHIP OF UNEQUALS IN ARISTOTLE’S NICHOMACHEAN ETHICS VIS-A-VIS GODFATHERISM IN NIGERIAN POLITICS CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION Since inception of the current administration in Nigeria in 1999, a major political problem that has plagued the country and has become a socio-political…
THE MORAL DECADENCE IN NIETZSCHE’S PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS. CHAPTER ONE THE NOTION OF MORALITY 1.1 The Exact Definition of Morality In making moral choices, the morality of one’s actions does not depend entirely on the sincerity of the intention or the…
JUSTICE AND ITS PRIMACY IN THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF ARISTOTLE GENERAL INTRODUCTION The problem of the origin and harmonious organization of the state has been an age long problem for philosophers. They have varied opinions as regards the solution to…
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ALIENATION OF LABOUR IN KARL MARX (It’s Implications to the Condition of the Nigerian Workers) 1.0 INTRODUCTION The 17th century philosophy, the enlightenment period, is significant for so many reasons. Not only did it witness the emergence…
A PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL ON THE IGBO TRADITIONAL SYSTEM OF CHILD UPBRINGING, VIS-À-VIS THE CONTEMPORARY SYSTEM CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION There seems to be universal law of preservation and conservation in nature. Rock, seas, minerals, plants, animals and man; all endure…
A PHILOSOPHICAL EXAMINATION OF THE NIGERIAN RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN THE LIGHT OF ANDRE GODIN’S IDEAS CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Majority of the humans in the world are born into one religion or the other.[1]The environment in which we live is…
ZIK’S NEO-WELFARISM: A VIABLE OPTION FOR THE NIGERIAN STATE CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY This thesis springs from a genuine sense of patriotism to fashion a way forward for my beloved country. It is rather…
A PHILOSOPHICAL LOOK INTO RELIGION AND FREEWILL IN THE LIGHT OF JAMES WILLIAM CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION There are two good things in life: freedom of thought and freedom of action[1]. In the whole world man is the only…
MACHIAVELLIANISM AND DEMOCRACY. (NIGERIA AS A CASE STUDY) CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction Machiavelli has gained the world popularity because of the way he conceived and understood politics. Today “Machiavellism” is used to describe a political situation characterized by tyranny, despotism,…
A PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL OF JOSEPH FLETCHER’S NEW MORALITY CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM The problem to be treated is about moral decision-making. How is one to act when faced with a moral decisive situation? Life presents us with…
FRIENDSHIP IN ARISTOTLE VIS-À-VIS MODERN DAY CONCEPTION OF FRIENDSHIP CHAPTER ONE 1.0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION Quite a number of things are fanciful to human being; wealth, prestige, power, good health and host of others. However, all these things make more meaning…
THE NOTION OF THE HUMAN PERSON IN KIERKEGAARD VIS-À-VIS AFRICAN INDIVIDUAL CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION There are diverse understanding of the concept of the human person among thinkers and philosophers. In this regard, Arthur C. Danto affirms that “Neither in common…
A CRITIQUE OF POPPER’S STRATEGY FOR THE GROWTH OF SCIENCE CHAPTER ONE 1.0 TOWARDS ESTABLISHING THE BACKGROUND OF POPPERIAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. 1.1 CAN FACTS CONSTITUTE THETERMINUS A QUO OF SCIENCE? (THE PROBLEM OF INDUCTION) It is one of the fundamental canons…
PANACEA TO NIGERIAN PREDICAMENTS IN THE LIGHT OF SOREN KIERKEGAARD’S AUTHENTIC EXISTENCE CHAPTER ONE PROBLEM AND BACKGROUND 1.1 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY It was Martin Heidegger in his Being and Time, who changed the course of study laid down by his predecessors…
A CRITIQUE OF DETERMINISM IN THE LIGHT OF IMMANUEL KANT CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION AND THE CLARIFICATION OF TERMS Human beings live in a world that is laden with many possibilities. As a being with the capacity to choose between…
PSYCHOLOGY OF GENIUS IN ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER CHAPTER ONE 1.0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION In the evolutionary system, advancement in the human world was as a result of the urge to satisfy the immediate needs of man and even more. Every…
NIHILISM IN NIETZSCHE; A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF NIGERIAN SITUATION CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION In the history of thought, Nietzsche occupies a fundamental position especially in the contemporary era. His ideas and postulations are not only thought provoking but brain…
THE ART OF NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING IN THE LIGHT OF JOHN F. KIPPLEY (A Philosophical Approach) GENERAL INTRODUCTION STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM There is this popular perception that population growth impedes economic development and induces poverty; that it means increased infant…
THE CIVIL STATE IN JOHN LOCKE’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: ITS RELEVANCE TO NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY CHAPTER ONE 1.0 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY 1.1 General Introduction John Locke was born on August 29, 1632 in Warrington, Somerset. His father, John Locke senior, was a…
THE DISTORTED IMAGES OF AFRICAN CONTINENT: A HEIDEGGERIAN INTERPRETATION GENERAL INTRODUCTION What do you expect would come to the minds of many, assuming you stand on Mountain Everest and shout the word “Africa” to the hearing of all mankind? Arguably,…
THE JOHN LOCKE’S POLITICAL POWER VIS-À-VIS ABUSE OF POWER IN NIGERIA CHAPTER ONE VIEWS OF PHILOSOPHERS THROUGH THE AGES Perhaps what has become so dominant in the affairs and the nature of man, almost exclusively, is the need to be…
EXISTENTIALISM OF JEAN PAUL SARTRE CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Self: An Existential Approach. Existentialism is better seen as a style of philosophizing rather than a philosophy. Thus, the existentialists have some patterns of thought following their existential traits. Hence, they deny that…
THE BINDING FORCE OF CONSCIENCE IN ST. THOMAS AQUINAS TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Certification Dedication Acknowledgment A Brief Profile of St. Thomas Aquinas Table of Contents CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background of the Study 1.2. Statement of the Problem 1.3. …
CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF HEGELIAN IDEALISM AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL HUMAN PERSON GENERAL INTRODUCTION STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Throughout the history of philosophy, one peculiar trait has marked all the philosophers and served as their uniting factor. It is the…
A CRITIQUE OF THE MORAL AND RELIGIOUS NIHILISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF FREIDRICH NIETZSCHE GENERAL NTRODUCTION. Statement of problem. Down the stages of the history of philosophy, the modern philosophy of consciousness, attention has been directed to the mastery of…
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THOMAS HOBBES’S SOCIAL CONTRACT WITH JOHN LOCKE’S SOCIAL CONTRACT IN THEIR POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Across the century, the social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, has been…
PLATO’S NOTION OF PHILOSOPHER KING, AND NIGERIAN LEADERS, A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Plato was a writer, a thinker and a teacher. He stands with Socrates and Aristotle as one of the shapers of the whole intellectual tradition of…
GLOBALIZATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA CHAPTER ONE 1.1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION Human quest for sustainable development can be traced back to the very onset of human existence. This explains why human history is replete with various attempts by man to…
SOCIAL CONTRACT IN JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU – IMPLICATIONS FOR NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY CHAPTER ONE 1.1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION It is in the nature of man as a social being to live together in a community. But, to achieve his utmost fulfilment, man desires…
FEMINISTS CRITIQUE ON ARISTOTLE GENDER PERSPECTIVE CHAPTER ONE 1.0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION Since time immemorial, people have held the view that men are superior to women. This vision of male supremacy is clearly reflected in all traditional families and societies to…
PLATONIC-ARISTOTELIAN NOTION OF MAN [A Comparative Analysis] CHAPTER ONE EXPLICATION OF TERMS 1.1 The concept “Man” Man by his very nature is an inquisitive being. The innate desire, says Aristotle, is both for pragmatic motives and for the sake of…
NOTION OF FREEDOM AND LAW IN ST. THOMAS AQUINAS CHAPTER ONE 1.0 THE GENERAL NOTION OF FREEDOM The concept of freedom is an analogous one, predicated in different ways to beings of very different types. The various forms of attribution…
A PHILOSOPHICAL LOOK AT THE EGOCENTRIC INTERPRETATION OF SELF-TRANSCENDENCE IN MAN IN THE LIGHT OF NIETZSCHE GENERAL INTRODUCTION Man by nature it has been said is an insatiable being. He is never satisfied and fulfilled within any particular state. He…
THE CONCEPT OF HAPPINESS IN ST. AUGUSTINE (A CRITICAL APPRAISAL) CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION Aristotle in the commencement of his “Metaphysics” wrote: “pantes anthropoi tou eidenai oregontai phuse”[1] (all men by nature desire to know). This existential passion or…
MODERN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DIGINITY OF HUMAN LIFE; AN ETHICAL ANALYSIS CHAPTER ONE 1.1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION With the Becconian dictum ‘knowledge is power”, scientist have gone the extra mile on how to improve the environmental condition and then revamp the quality of…
A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF HOBBES’ IDEA OF SOCIAL CONTRACT CHAPTER ONE GENERAL IDEA OF A SOCIAL CONTRACT The social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that person’s moral or political obligations are dependent upon a…
IGBO/EUROPEAN CONTACT; ITS SOCIO-POLITICAL EFFECTS ON THE IGBO CHAPTER ONE 1.0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION It is undeniably clear that coming across any written work with this kind of topic stirs up numerous varied notions in people’s minds. The views of an…
PHILOSOPHICAL SURVEY IN THE MORALITY OF SPINOZA IN THE LIGHT OF HIS EVIL AND GOOD CHAPTER ONE 1.0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION The problem of good and evil in the world of ours has become questionable. Good and evil without doubt…
THE EGO AND THE ID IN SIGMUND FREUD:A PHILOSOPHICAL EXAMINATION CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION In the anal of history, quest for meaning as a quest for knowledge has remained an existential fact in every human endeavour. Hence, it propelled man’s…
HANNAH ARDENT ON VIOLENCE VIS-À-VIS THE QUEST FOR POLITICAL POWER THROUGH VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM While trying to echo Max Weber’s definition of state, C.W Mills categorically defined politics as a struggle…
THE STATE AS A COMMUNITY OF PERSONS IN HEGEL; A CRITIQUE CHAPTER ONE 1.1 BACKGROUND OF HEGEL’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. 1.1.1. HISTORICAL SURVEY Every individual is a child of his time. It is not easy for one to escape the influence of…
THE IMPLICATION OF DAVID HUME’S PHILOSOPHY OF IMPRESSIONS AND IDEAS CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction Are we not often at times shocked by the discovery that what we thought was certain is later proved dubious and false? If this be a…
OJUKWU’S PHILOSOPHY OF DETRIBALISM: THE PANACEA TO THE NIGERIAN POLITICAL PROBLEMS CHAPTER ONE THE BACKGROUND TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF DETRIBALISM 1.1 Tribalism And Nigerian Political Development Ever since the marriage between the Northern and Southern Nigeria became a reality, Nigerians have…
PLATO’S IDEA OF ‘PHILOSOPHER KING’ AND NIGERIAN LEADERSHIP CRISIS CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Today in Nigeria, leadership in all facets of our life – government, industry, education, church and what have you – has come to…
JUST STATE IN PLATO ;A CRITICAL EXPOSITION CHAPTER ONE BACK GROUND TO THE STUDY. 1.1 Statement of the Problem The inability of man to satisfy his limitless needs arising from his self-insufficiency drives him to seek the service of others…
A CRITIQUE ON PIAGETIAN THEORIES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER ONE PROBLEM AND BACKGROUND 1.1 INTRODUCTION Generally speaking, one of the earliest observations we make in life is that the desire to explore the unknown to further our knowledge and understanding…
THE DOCTRINE OF FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY IN JEAN PAUL SARTRE – THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN AN AUTHENTIC EXISTENCE CHAPTER ONE 1.0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION This thesis has to do with the problem of freedom in man’s realization of authentic existence in…
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE CONCEPT OF PRIESTHOOD IN IGBO TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION The term Priesthood is one of the oldest institutions of mankind all over the world. The reason is certainly associated with…
CONSCIENCE IN THOMAS AQUINAS: A PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The modern world is characterized by violence, riots, wars, terrorism, and abortion, which constitute threats to the peaceful co-existence of men. Analysts have strived to bring out solution to…
KANTIAN CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE: ITS IMPLICATION IN NIGERIAN ETHICAL ORDER CHAPTER ONE KANT’S MORAL PRINCIPLES Kant in virtue of his education has a vivid appreciation of the unparallel excellence of moral value. In his ethical theory, Kant sets out to discover…
BIAFRA AGITATION: ANY JUSTIFICATION CHAPTER ONE BIAFRA AS LED BY CHUKWUEMEKA ODUMEGWU OJUKWU 1.1 The Remote Causes of the Biafra Declaration By remote causes we mean those errors committed, mistakes made, events, etc. that in one way or the…
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MACHIAVELLIAN PRINCIPLE AND NIGERIAN SOCIETY CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Niccolo Machiavelli appears to have generated more controversy than any of his contemporaries. So much notoriety has gathered around his name that the charge of being a…
SOCIAL STATUS IN PLATO’S IDEAL STATE: ITS RELEVANCE TO NIGERIAN SOCIETY CHAPTER ONE 1:0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1:0:1 INTRODUCTION Man, by nature, is a social animal said Plato. But every “society is made up of unique individuals who fail or succeed,…
THE FATE OF MAN IN A SCIENTIST-TECHNOLOGICAL ERA. CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Science In The Seventies If a reasonable analysis is made of the whole periods in the history of science, the fact that science brought much innovation to mankind cannot…
THOMAS AQUINAS’ NATURAL LAW THEORY: A STANDARD FOR HUMAN POSITIVE LAW. CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION The concept of natural law occupies a central position in the moral theory of Thomas Aquinas. Thomas Aquinas’ treatise on natural law is contained in…
JUSTICE IN JOHN RAWLS VIS-À-VIS NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Man, says Aristotle, is by nature a political animal. This implies that man is naturally inclined to live in a political society. Joseph Omoregbe aptly captures this idea when he…
THE PLACE OF MAN IN ARISTOTLE: THE BASIS OF MAN’S CHAPTER ONE DEFINITION OF THE CONCEPTS OF MAN 1.1 Origin of Man- An Evolutionary/Scientific perspective ‘Man or ‘homo sapiens’, as he somewhat arrogantly calls himself, is the most interesting and also…
CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE STATE OF NATURE AND POLITICAL RIGHT IN THOMAS HOBBES CHAPTER ONE 1.1 THE STATE OF NATURE The notion that man is a creature equipped from birth for society is a view implicit in Plato and expressly formulated…
A CRITIQUE ON FREUDIAN PSYCHO SEXUAL ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE CHILD CHAPTER ONE PROBLEM AND BACKGROUND 1.1 INTRODUCTION In the annals of history, sex has remained a mystery to both man and the society at large. Its importance in human life…
HOW TO BE HAPPY: A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF ARISTOTLE’S “GOLDEN MEAN” CHAPTER ONE 1.0 ARISTOTLE For the purpose of this long essay, it would be a big jump not to begin with a clear knowledge of the philosopher we are…