» 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 »
» THE DOCTRINE OF FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY IN JEAN PAUL SARTRE THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN AN AUTHENTIC EXISTECHAPTER ONE 1.0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION This thesis has to do with the problem of freedom in man’s realization of authentic existence in the existentialist philosophy of…Continue Reading »
» 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 the religious propensi…Continue Reading »
» 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 the problem in…Continue Reading »
» 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 and justify the supreme principle of morality and the foundation on which the whole structure of moral law m…Continue Reading »
» 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 other contributed to the Nigeria’s …Continue Reading »
» A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MACHIAVELLIAN PRINCIPLE AND NIGERIAN SOCIETY TABLE OF CONTENT TITLE…………………………………………………….………………..i CERTIFICATION………Continue Reading »
» Design And Implementation Of Computerized Budgeting System (case Study Of Enugu State Ministry Of Finance) ABSTRACT A Budget being the planning of how to spend revenues and incoming capitals so this makes is necessary to make sure that it is done with extra care. Budgets and the methods of preparing…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE1:0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION1:0:1 INTRODUCTIONMan, by nature, is a social animal said Plato. But every “society is made up of unique individuals who fail or succeed, are powerful or weak, not as a consequence of stratification but because of their individual biographies”.[i] It …Continue Reading »
» THE FATE OF MAN IN A SCIENTIST TECHNOLOGICAL ERA. (A PHILOSOPHICAL EXAMINATION OF THE IDEAS OF ALEXANDER DENIS.)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 innovat…Continue Reading »
