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AFRICAN VALUES TRADITIONAL AND MODERN IN AMA ATA AIDOO’S CHANGES AND ASARE KONADU’S A WOMAN IN HER PRIME

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Values In ethics, value denotes something degree of importance, with the aim of determining what action or life is best to do or live, or at least attempt to describe the value of different actions. It may be described as treating actions themselves as abstract objects, putting value to them. It deals with right conduct and good life, in the sense that a highly, or at least ...

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AFRICAN UNION AND RESOLUTION OF THE POST 2010-2011 ELECTION CRISIS IN COTE D’IVOIRE

ABSTRACT   Cote d’ivoire in the west African sub-region, recently faced political crisis that emanated from the presidential election that was conducted in October 2010, this present unique features of armed conflicts that aroused the interest of international community such as the United Nations, ECOWAS, African Union, France etc in the country’s peace process. African Union, a defunct of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) was created to handle the ...

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A DETAILED HISTORY OF AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY

ABSTRACT One of the challenges that have persisted in African philosophy through the centuries is the question, if there is an African philosophy at all. Thus, when one uses the term African, one is asked to contextualize the term: Does it (the term African) refer to the content of the philosophy or does it qualify the identity of the philosophers themselves? Whether resting with the former, or the latter, or ...

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PROBLEMS MILITATING AGAINST CHRISTIANS COMING TOGETHER IN NIGERIA

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The Portuguese had more or less a monopoly of movement along the West African coast in the 17th and 18th centuries and the spread of Christianity was their chief aim. Along with it nevertheless, they attached importance to commerce because of the support it gave to their missionary work. Portugal had had a long and bitter struggle against the Muslims in North Africa ...

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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THOMAS HOBBES’S SOCIAL CONTRACT WITH JOHN LOCKE’S SOCIAL CONTRACT IN THEIR POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

CHAPTER ONE    1.0    GENERAL INTRODUCTION   PURPOSE OF THE STUDY   Across the century, the social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, has been used and employed by many philosophers. Thinkers like Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. John Rawls and Jeremy Bentham have employed it in different ways. This implies that the way the social contract theory is understood differs, at least insignificantly, from one ...

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UJAMAA IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF JULIUS NYERERE A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

ABSTRACT 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 up to his cultural ideals and aspiration as African and as such, suffers alienation, identity and personal ...

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A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF KARL POPPER’S FALSIFICATION PRINCIPLE

ABSTRACT   Karl popper was concerned with distinguishing science from pseudo-science; as well as a criterion of truth in science; and consequently his rejection of the verifiability principle of meaning since it does not adequately demarcate scientific statements, including majorly metaphysical, ethical and theological statements and this lead to his formulation of the falsifiability theory.  Popper did not accept the general belief that science uses inductive method to arrive at ...

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A PHILOSOPHICAL LOOK AT THE EGOCENTRIC INTERPRETATION OF SELF-TRANSCENDENCE IN MAN IN THE LIGHT OF NIETZSCHE

TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE…………………………………………………………………….ii CERTIFICATION………………………………………………………iii DEDICATION…………………………………………………………...iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT………………………………………….……v TABLE OF CONTENTS………………………………………….……vii   GENERAL INTRODUCTION Statement of the Problem……………………………..…………………2 Purpose of the Work…………………………………….………….……3 Scope of the Study………………………………………………….……3 Methodology……………………………………………….…………….4   CHAPTER ONE THE NOTION AND MEANING OF SELF-TRANSCENDENCE IN MAN   1.1     The Principal Parts of Self-Transcendence…………………..……7 1.1.1  The Egocentric interpretation of self-transcendence…………..….8 1.1.2  The Social interpretation of Self-transcendence……………….…8 1.1.3  The Theocentric Interpretation of Self-transcendence……………9 1.2     Abstract Manifestation of Self-transcendence……………………11 1.2.1  Substance and Accident………………………………………….12 ...

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WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY, WORKERS’ COMMITMENT AND PERFORMANCE IN AJAYI CROWTHER UNIVERSITY AND FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, AKURE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Organizational spirituality elicits workers’ self-imposed willingness to act and perform their task productively in an organisation. This is orchestrated by workers' judgment and perception with reference to their job meaningfulness, growth oriented, and fulfillment in the context of a social and egalitarian community (Kinjerski & Scrypnek, 2006, Tagavi & Hamid, 2014). Many organisations in the world today are having challenges in building ...

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ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF TRANS-BORDER CRIMES ON SECURITY IN NIGERIA (CASE STUDY OF NIGERIA – NIGER BORDER)

ABSTRACT   This study dwells on the Assessment of the Implications of Trans-border Crimes on security in Nigeria (Cases study of Nigeria-Niger border). Trans-border crime involves the movement of persons, goods and services across the sovereign national boundaries in a manner devoid of acceptable norms and standard. These illegal enterprise not only threaten aspect of our states sovereignty and security, but they also prove the permeability of our national borders ...

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NOTION OF FREEDOM IN JEAN PAUL SARTRE

      TABLE OF CONTENT   TITLE       …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      i CERTIFICATION       …      …      …      …      …      …      ii DEDICATION    …      …      …      …      …      …      …      iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT     …      …      …      …      …      iv TABLE OF CONTENT                  …      …      …      …      …      vii SHORT BIOGRAPHY          …      …      …      …      …      ix GENERAL INTRODUCTION       …      …      …      …      xi   CHAPTER ONE 1.0     ...

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INVESTIGATION INTO OPENNESS VALUE AND COUNTERFACTUAL THINKING FACTORS INFLUENCING SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the study It is expected that the primary motive of any academic task provided to an individual is to enable the individual access effectively and efficiently his/her academic abilities and potentials to produce successful ends. In other words, the goal of an academic task is to build in an individual a strong sense of judgment and responsibility. This has always been the preoccupation of educational ...

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A CRITIQUE OF DAVID HUME’S EMPIRICISM

OUT LINE CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1   Background of  study 1.2   Statement of  problem 1.3   Purpose of study 1.4   Significance of  study 1.5   Scope and methodology 1.6   Methodology 1.7   Literature Review End Notes   CHAPTER TWO: HUME’S LIFE AND THE INTELLECTUAL INFLUENCES ON HIM 2.1   Hume’s life and works 2.2   Intellectual influences on David Hume 2.3   General overview of empiricist philosophy End Notes   CHAPTER THREE: HUME’S EMPIRICISM 3.1   Hume’s ...

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A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF ARISTOTLE’S CONCEPTION OF CAUSALITY

TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page Certification Dedication Acknowledgement Table of Contents Abstract CHAPTER ONE (GENERAL INTRODUCTION) Background of the Study Statement of the Problem Methodology Scope of the Study Purpose of the Study Significance of the Study Literature Review Notes and References                                                                CHAPTER TWO:   THE GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF ARISTOTLE Background of Aristotle His Theory of Logic His Theory of Knowledge His Theory of Metaphysics His Theory of Ethics His ...

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