ABSTRACT The study centres on the Rites of passage in Mbosi, Community in Ihiala Local Government of Anambra State. Of particular concern to this study are Birth, Puberty, Marriage and Death rites. This stages in the life of an individuals are discussed with... Continue Reading
ABSTRACT The belief in reincarnation is, of course, a central theme of many Eastern religions. Belief in rebirth has been reported amongst people scattered the length and breadth of the African continent. Their beliefs ranges from ‘partial’ reincarnation of an ancestor in one or several individuals strictly within the same family, to that of... 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... Continue Reading
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The problem of the existence of God is as old as Man. it is a major issue that man either consciously or unconsciously raises in his mind. Philosophers are very concerned with this problem. The problem of the existence of God has almost become a part of every being and one who his beliefs will tagged an atheist which today... Continue Reading
A CRITIQUE ON PIAGETIAN THEORIES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE……………………………………………………………...i CERTIFICATION………………………………………………..ii DEDICATION ………………………………………….………..iii... Continue Reading
CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY From time immemorial, the fundamental question of whether life ends at death has been a major pre-occupation for both philosophers and religious thinkers., although different quarters of intellectual opinion have acknowledged the inevitability of death... Continue Reading
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY. 1.1 Introduction. The controversy over women leadership in the Church has been on since the inception of the Church till date. While some Church denominations especially among the Pentecostals,... Continue Reading
Table of Contents CHAPTER ONE 1.1 General Introduction. … … … 1.2 Statement of Problem. … … 1.3 Purpose of Study. … … … 1.4 Scope of Study. … … 1.5 Methodology. … … … 1.6 Division of Work. … … CHAPTER TWO 2.1 Rousseau on Social Contract.... Continue Reading
ABSTRACT This work studies the discourse of political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes who committed Himself to the task of tracing the origin of the state. As a political entity in 1651 in his book titled ‘Leviathan’ This was necessitated by the fact in the 17th century; Europe experience a... Continue Reading
CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE STATE OF NATURE AND POLITICAL RIGHT IN THOMAS HOBBES CHAPTER ONE 1.1 THE STATE OF NATURE The notion that man is a creature equipped from birth for society is a view implicit in Plato and expressly formulated by Aristotle in the genesis of his politics. Man is by nature, a political animal.... Continue Reading
ABSTRACT Marxism has for more than two centuries been identified not only as a philosophy that tend to promote change among men but an ideology of social consciousness that warms the soup of hope for the common masses, most especially the working people.... Continue Reading
ABSTRACT John Rawls’ “A theory of justice” published in 1971, changed contemporary political theory. In the book, John Rawls presented a reformulation of the social contract theory of John Locke, Jean Jacque Rosseau and Immanuel Kant, providing a justification of the liberal... Continue Reading
ABSTRACT Idealism is the group of Philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally, mentally, mentally constructed or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically idealism manifest as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing. In a... Continue Reading
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Majority of the humans in the world are born into one religion or the other.[1] The environment in which we live is densely religious. As a result, one starts to hear, see and touch things... Continue Reading
CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY While philosophy began in wonder and curiosity about the nature of the universe, it progressed uninterruptedly through the ancient and medieval periods and infact, into the early modern era with its singular object: the search... Continue Reading
ABSTRACT 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... Continue Reading
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 MODES OF BEING IN JEAN PAUL SARTRE 1.1 MEANING OF BEING. Being in all its fullness, and as the ground of all beings remains a great mystery. All the philosophical epochs have tried in diverse ways without success, to expound a wholesome review of this question. According... Continue Reading
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY What is knowledge? What can be known? What is it to know? Or put simply; what is the possibility of an absolute truth and certainty in knowledge? These are fundamental questions in epistemology. Aristotle, the ancient Greek... Continue Reading
ABSTRACT Jos, Plateau state is a city with a high level of religious intolerance in every facet of the society. Since September 7, 2001, it experienced a violent ethno-religious crisis, which broke its innocence as a religiously tolerant state. Since then Jos has lost... Continue Reading
THE ART OF NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING IN THE LIGHT OF JOHN F. KIPPLEY ( A Philosophical Approach ) TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE ...... …… …… …… …… …… …… …… …… ……ii CERTIFICATION ...... …… ….. …… …… ….. …… …...iii DEDICATION ...... …… ……... Continue Reading
ABSTRACT Marxism has for more than two centuries been identified not only as a philosophy that tend to promote change among men but an ideology of social consciousness that warms the soup of hope for the common masses, most especially the working people.... Continue Reading
THE MORAL DECADENCE IN NIETZSCHE’S PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS ( A Critical Approach ) CHAPTER ONE THE NOTION OF MORALITY 1.1 The Exact Definition of Morality In making moral choices, the morality of one’s actions does not depend entirely on the sincerity of the intention or the evaluation of the motives, but it must be determined... Continue Reading
BACKGROUND OF STUDY 1.1 Introduction To live without conflicts is not to exist. The culture of conflict is universal and noticeable in every society. In so far as there are conflicting interests and divergent ideas even in relation to the same issues.Conflicts therefore is inevitable,... Continue Reading
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page Certification Dedication Acknowledgements Table of contents CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the study The statement of the problem Purpose of the study Significance of the study Scope of the study Methodology Literature... Continue Reading
. ABSTRACT This research work attempt to examine the Boko Haram insurgency as a fight against western culture: an analysis of people perception in the south-south region of Nigeria. The work has five chapters, each chapter... Continue Reading