CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Of The Study The phenomenon of violence, which occurs in our society almost on a daily basis, together with the works of some scholars on colonialism and emancipation, was what provoked this research work. My interest in embarking on this work was also captured by the colonization of Africa and […]

ABSTRACT 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 […]

ABSTRACT The concept of Development falls under the Anth ropological part of Philosophy, but i n recent times, it is attracting scholarly discussions which demands Philosophical evaluation. Taking into consideration , the attributes of development which include s: ontological, cultural, social and psychological integration, many scholars from different field s of study have contributed, but […]

CHAPTER ONE 1.0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION Philosophy which began vigorously from the Ancient periods with its attendant rigorosity and criticality in reasoning have apparently gone beyond the era of animism and anthropomorphism that marked the works of Homer and Hesiod no thanks to the seeming criticality with which the early lonian philosophers philosophized. Various philosophies were […]

CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION The concept of natural law occupies a central position in the moral theory of Thomas Aquinas. Thomas Aquinas’ treatise on natural law is contained in the first part of the second part of his Summa Theologica where he treated Law. To be precise, he dedicated question ninety-four of the said book […]

1.0 INTRODUCTION Suzanne Collins’ the hunger games trilogy is easily counted as one of the most successful young adult series ever written. The three novel series brings to life many characters that are set in a dystopian society filled with many trials and tribulations. The novels present a well written and imaginatively crafted account of […]

GENERAL INTRODUCTION What do you expect would come to the minds of many, assuming you stand on Mountain Everest and shout the word “Africa” to the hearing of all mankind? Arguably, many (especially Westerners) would immediately succumb to the idea that Africa is a place of tribal slaughters, massacres, urban slums, skeletal children, people infested […]

SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF JEAN PAUL SARTRE. Jean Paul Sartre was born in 1905 by Jean Batiste, a naval officer and Anne Marie Schiveitzer. He was educated at Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris where he proved himself as an academician. While still at the Ecole Normale Sartre was attracted to philosophy through the inspiration of Henri […]

BACKGROUND OF STUDY GENERAL INTRODUCTION Throughout the history man has always sought different methods of organizing himself into political states. He needed these methods for the systematic organization of himself according to what is befitting to his nature, since he is both a political and a rational animal that is capable of realizing himself fully […]

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 search for a workable system that would […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Man, says Aristotle, is by nature a political animal. This implies that man is naturally inclined to live in a political society. Joseph Omoregbe aptly captures this idea when he says that no one can rightly claim to be independent of the society, because no man is an island. To buttress these […]

GENERAL INTRODUCTION Since inception of the current administration in Nigeria in 1999, a major political problem that has plagued the country and has become a socio-political problem is “Godfatherism.” Politics in Nigeria has become a business venture where everyone struggles to participate. To this, S. U. Togbolo opines, Politics in Nigeria has become an investment […]

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 their various capacities. Both the advocates of peace and terror, theists and atheists explicitly or implicitly speak and write about […]

CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION AND THE CLARIFICATION OF TERMS Human beings live in a world that is laden with many possibilities. As a being with the capacity to choose between alternatives, he has been able to surmount the numerous problems he has so far encountered. Not only this, he has been able to develop this […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study All that we lack at birth and need when grown up is given, to us by education. This education comes to us from nature, from men or from things. The internal development of our faculties and the organs is the education of nature. The use we learn […]

Chapter One Introduction 1.1 Background to the Study The African American and winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature Toni Morrison, speaks eloquently of what she calls “a sense of rootedness”(339). What Morrison is referring to, is the gut sense of belonging to a common tradition of historical sensibility that binds writers of different […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY The phenomenon of violence which occurs in our society almost on daily basis together with the works of some scholars on colonialism and emancipation was what provoked this research work. My interest to embark on this work was also captured by the colonization of Africa and Africa’s struggle […]