» 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 treated well. What seemed as latent but constantly boiling in every i…Continue Reading »
» 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 reality can be neatly packaged in concept or p…Continue Reading »
» THE BINDING FORCE OF CONSCIENCE IN ST. THOMAS AQUINAS TABLE OF CONTENTS Title … … … … … … … … … … … … … … i …Continue Reading »
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» 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 to live in peace and harmony with his environment, persons and things alike. Hence, every nation continues to se…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE1.0 GENERAL INTRODUCTIONSince 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 an extent that even women were made to accept that they are inferior nature.Over centu…Continue Reading »
» 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 knowing. Man wants to know and c…Continue Reading »
» 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 depend, to a certain extent, not by defining the same specific content, but by indicatin…Continue Reading »
» A PHILOSOPHICAL LOOK AT THE EGOCENTRIC INTERPRETATION OF SELF TRANSCENDENCE IN MAN IN THE LIGHT OF NIETZSCHEGENERAL INTRODUCTION Man by nature it has been said is an insatiable being. He is never satisfied and fulfilled within any particular state. He wants always to move beyond his present conditio…Continue Reading »
» 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 desire is quite innate and intrinsic in man. Du…Continue Reading »
» 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 human life. Now, we witness a great and extraordinary progress in Bio technological sciences and m…Continue Reading »
» 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 contract or agreement between them to form a society.1 On the mention of the term contract, then, what come…Continue Reading »
» IGBO/EUROPEAN CONTACT; ITS SOCIO POLITICAL EFFECTS ON THE IGBOCHAPTER 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 Igbo man who comes across this topic is …Continue Reading »
» 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 have constituted lots of discomfort, havoc and other problems in human life. Consequently, so many thinkers of different epochs have contr…Continue Reading »
» 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 meaning attaching trait which satisfies his concept of existence. Philosophy as it were has been the vanguard…Continue Reading »
» HANNAH ARDENT ON VIOLENCE VIS À VIS THE QUEST FOR POLITICAL POWER THROUGH VIOLENCE IN NIGERIACHAPTER 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 u…Continue Reading »
» 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 his epoch or contemporary world. Hegel himself is not innocent of this. His historical judgments and moral eva…Continue Reading »
» 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 regular occurrence, is it not the case that we may become …Continue Reading »
» 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 made several attempts to preserve this marriage; but consta…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONEGENERAL INTRODUCTION1.1 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 be the hub of the country’s problem. Chinua Achebe summarized it thus in his book “The Tr…Continue Reading »
» JUST STATE IN PLATO(A CRITICAL EXPOSITION)CHAPTER ONE BACK GROUND OF 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 in the society. Hence, the origin of the state is traceable …Continue Reading »
