The question of what constitutes civil disobedience and its justification has been a problem in philosophy. Civil disobedience has been confused with so many other acts of disobedience; like, rebellion, and revolutionary moves. Civil disobedience can be distinguished from all these acts by its appeal to conscience and its method. The question of conscience is [...]
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 and clarities in science into philosophy. They believed that there are ambiguities and confusion in philosophical languages and that such ambiguities and confusions [...]
Feminism is one of the philosophical concepts that has raised a lot of controversies in all human societies. It is a theory, ideology and a humanistic philosophy that incorporate men and women for the upliftment and development of the society. To this end, Simone De Beauvoir, a French existentialist philosopher, applied existentialists’ ideas to the [...]
Human history has witnessed a course of events which some philosophers have argued is directional. While some argue that this movement is random, others have argued that it is directional and is moving towards an end: the end of history. Francis fukuyama in his book The End Of History and The Last Man argued that [...]
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 and thus confirmating the progress and success of the western process of dehumanization. As a result, the African has not been able to live authentically [...]
This dissertation carries out an indepth study of the traditional communal way of life of the Africans called African communalism with emphasis on the place of the individual rights and freedom within it. To achieve this objective the researcher focused attention on articulating answers to the following fundamental questions; how the African understands, interprets and [...]
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 on mud”. He believes that it means nothing for a ruler to be a man of integrity, upright, faithful to his promises, humane or [...]
Metaphysics can be defined as that branch of philosophy that studies reality in its most comprehensive scope and fundamental principles. It is the science that tries to determine the real nature of things. The thesis is an attempt to examine critically the metaphysical foundation of knowledge in Igbo philosophy. It shows that metaphysical knowledge is [...]
Albert Einstein, in a letter to a Rumanian friend Maurice Solvine from Princeton U.S.A. on April 10, 1938, says: “A fashion rule each age, without most people being able to see the tyrants that rule them” Although man as Aristotle opines is a political animal who desires and longs to live in a community with [...]
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 of the individual and the state using the method of analysis. Gandhi is of the view that the individual is of supreme value. He is a free moral agent [...]
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