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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…