PHILOSOPHY TOPICS

1. 1. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The democratisation process in Nigeria since independence has remained nascent in every republic; its practices and processes have remained new, strange and fresh, and in most cases have always ended up in confusion, frustration and chaos. What has continued to go wrong? Ray Ekpu succinctly captures the situation in his article the “End Justifies the Means,” when he sai...

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

The topic of this study is Sartre’s notion of freedom. The notion of freedom has raised a lot of dust in different philosophical epochs yet it remained problematic. Man’s experience of his own behaviour seems to reveal to him that he is free, that he has ability to decide for himself, to deliberate on what to do in various situations and to come to his own conclusions about what to do or believe what he does. Al...

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This study focuses on st. Thomas Aquinas argument for the existence of God; a God who is purported to have created the universe and all it holds on one hand and our daily life experiences of the world on the other hand. Theists assert God to be most powerful, wholly good and all knowing. Our daily experience shows that there is evil everywhere: pain and suffering are undeniably real, cancer, natural disasters, war, poverty, racism, murder, animal cruelty an...

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In the history of political philosophy there have been different views as to what relationship should exists between the citizens and state in terms of state’s power, authority compared to individual right and liberties.

The state is seen as a people living in a given territory under one law with a single governmental system. Some exponents conceived of the state through its characteristics and nature, while others conceive it in terms of it...

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I intended to expose the indepth meaning of reason and morality. Using man as the major point on this discussion, due to the higher rational faculty he possess over other creature.

We shall also answer the question as: has reason any influence or part to play in morality? Or put simply, is reason necessarily required for man to be moral? If yes, should reason be the sole factor for morality? But if no, what then?

This work is going to be...

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Understanding the distinction between impressions and ideas that Hume draws in the opening paragraph of his " A Treatise on Human Nature " is essential for understanding much of Hume's philosophy. This however is a task that has been the cause of a good deal controversy that rocks the literature of Hume. There is an alternative reading to the distinction as being between original mental entities and copied mental entities. Hume takes himself...

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It is popular knowledge that most counties in Africa were at one time or the other under the control of foreign countries after the Berlin conference that partitioned the continent into various parts and acted as guides for the colonial masters. However, the true sons of the soil who happened to be nationalists like Kwame Nkrumah, Obafemi Awolowo, Kenneth Kaunda and others fought bravely for the independence of these countries and hence came self-governance...

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM.

Every civil society exists for the realization of common good of the social whole.5 This underscores the establishment of some institutions or bodies that would be charged with the responsibility of helping to achieve, promote or realize this common good. The police force, then, is one of such institutions. As a matter of fact, the basis for establishment of police force is mostly geared towards the welfare of the soci...

1. 1. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

History indicates that right from the ancient times to the contemporary period, justice has been regarded as one of the cardinal virtues which man as a political animal makes quixotic effort to establish in the society he lives.  Thus, justice is the ultimate goal of political life, but experience has shown us that it is injustice that dominates political debate.  The...

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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 enslave the African nations and it economy. Globalization is not a course in totality but it is relative on the impact it has for each economy, whether developed or underdeveloped since it opens an avenue for each economy to compete in global market wi...

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Soren Kierkegaard’s philosophy marks the beginning of a new way of ascribing meaning to the existing being. His contribution to this new direction was to find meaning to human existence, who exists as an individual. For him, man only realizes himself and lives authentically when he excludes himself from the crowd, takes his decisions as an individual, lives his life and faces his own death all by himself. Also, to live an authentic ex...

BACKGROUND OF STUDY

In the history of philosophy, the issue of justice has always been a serious debate. The debate is all about what the concept ‘justice’ means and how it can be attained in a society. Thrasymachus, an ancient Greek philosopher, equated justice with ‘‘might is right’’. According to Christopher Stolleri, ‘’Justice is a concept that is balanced between law and morality’’1. Morality has to do...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

I have come to find out through history that almost all the wars and rancor that ravage the world have either economic or religious motive. Casting a look back to the Roman Empire, we will observe that most of the wars they fought had a religious motive. The last straw that broke the Camel’s back was;

“The fall of Roman Empire in 476 ushered in a period of intellectual darkness. The barbarians who destroye...

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In every society, whether modern or traditional society, the place of religion cannot be overlooked as the revolve the centre of man’s activities. One of the most important tools for religion is the institution of the priesthood. In this thesis, the writer endeavoured to buttress the unequivocal importance of priesthood in the traditional and Christianity religion. A comparative analysis of the office of the priest were attempted for both traditional and Christian rel...

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This study was carried out on philosophical appraisal of women empowerment. Women empowerment is human right that lies at the heart of development and achievement of millennium development goals. The research adopted a cross-sectional survey design.  The study was carried out in Nsukka in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State.  The population of the study comprised of adult males and females in Nsukka from the age of 18 and above. Multi sta...

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This essay is written in partial fulfillment of the department of Philosophy’s requirement for the award of the Bachelor’s of Arts Degree of the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma. In this essay, we have tried to discuss some of the Yoruba ethics Influenced by the Western Culture. What we have just done in this essay is to take some of the Yoruba ethics and compare it with the Western Culture and try to point out the peculiarities and differences b...

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The law presents itself as body of meaning open to discovery, interpretation, application, criticism, development and change. Law has been portrayed as a mode of communication, through which lawmaker convey certain standards or norms to the larger community by legal theories. More so, law has been discussed to be a vehicle, conveying a message from the speak to an intended audience. Law is no doubt viewed in relation with morality. Many philosophers of diff...

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This study explores the theory of arts and aesthetics, a reality to contemporary society: Kantian approach. In doing so, it provides a Kantian answer to the meta-critical question that generated the particularism-generalism divide in the first place, namely whether or not our aesthetic appraisals of artworks are based on natural facts concerning the non-aesthetic properties of those artworks. The Kantian theory of art presented has the advantage of reinstat...

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According to  Taiwo (1980:75), for sense of national unity , a country where people are different races, and each race tries to emphasize its own importance  and there are social or tribal jealousies, one race fears the domination of another race, it is always very difficult to make for a national system of education. This study is of a critique of the five main objectives of the philosophy of Nigerian Education in the contemporary socio-economic...

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Soren Kierkegaard is considered the father of modern existentialism. Usually Kierkegaard argued that philosophy should be related not only to abstract theories, but also to the problems that people face as existential human beings. The problem of human existence is completely related to this concept of freedom. Man’s use and abuse also makes him a man different from Mars. This study uses philosophical methods of analysis, criticism and recipes. The ex...

THE PURPOSE OF STUDY

The real question is what has this work to contribute to the global debates on the issue of human cloning?  That is towards resolving the problem of human cloning. Naturally, it is not ethical or moral to kill. It is against the moral law to destroy another person’s life. But embryos are deprived the right to live by denying them “personhood” by some biologists. This is the basis for their exposure as objects of research a...

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This study was carried out on the distorted images of African continent: a Heideggerian interpretation. To achieve this significant research objective were formulated, which is to showcase and bring to “more” conscious awareness the varied distorted images with which Africans are labeled.  The study covered the whole of African continent, especially the black Africans, bearing in mind that some Africans like Egyptians a...