PHILOSOPHY PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 281. THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF URHOBO NATION

  » TABLE CONTENTSTitle Page iiCertification iiiDedication ivAcknowledgement vTable of Content viAbstract viiCHAPTR ONEGeneral Introduction 11.1Statement of Problem 11.2Clarification of Terms 21.2.1Christianity 21.2.2Development 21.3Aims and Objectives 41.4Methodology 41.5Scope of Study 51.6Division of Work 5Endnotes 7CHAPTER TWOThe Historical Background of the Urhobo People 82.1The Historical Origin ...Continue Reading »

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• 282. A MARXIAN CRITIQUE OF CAPITALISM: A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH

  » ABSTRACTThis project is intended to expose the nature as capitalism as well as its merits and demerits. An exposure of the Marxian critique of the capitalist system and how marx pressed for the replacement of the system with the inauguration of communism through socialism shall then be explicated. It should be noted that according to marx, the only was to attain this goal is through a mass revolt ...Continue Reading »

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• 283. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THOMAS HOBBES’ CONCEPT OF THE LEVIATHAN

  » TABLE OF CONTENTSTitle PageCertification 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 Review Notes CHAPTER TWO HOBBES: THE BACKGROUND OF HIS POLITICAL THOUGHT.2.1Hobbes’ Life and Philosophy 2.1.1Thomas Hobbes 2.1.2His works 2....Continue Reading »

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• 284. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF JOHN RAWLS’ SECOND PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICE

  » ABSTRACTJohn 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 state.According to John Rawls, parties to a contract in an original position would accept two principles of...Continue Reading »

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• 285. SOCIO-JUSTICE AS A CONDITIO SINE-QUA-NON FOR SOCIAL ORDER

  » TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page iCertification iiDedication iiiAcknowledgements ivTable of Contents vAbstract viiCHAPTER ONE: Introduction Background of the Study 1Statement of the Problem 2Purpose of the Study 3Scope of the Study 3Significance of the Study 3Methodology 4Literature Review 4Endnotes 6CHAPTER TWO: Biography and Works of John Rawls Influence on John Rawls 7General idea of John Rawls con...Continue Reading »

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• 286. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON WESTERN AND AFRICAN HUMANISM

  » INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Humanism is the ideological movement in the humanities which foregrounds everything around human beings. Everything is viewed under the guide of the empirical sciences with no room for dogmas and extreme skepticism to every religious values. In the arts it reads everything in terms of human ratification. A humanist ideology in the arts views art works in te...Continue Reading »

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• 287. ETHICS: THE EFFECT OF TECHNOLOGY ON THE YOUTH , THEIR MORAL VALUES AND EDUCATION

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Through time, technological advancements have posed ethical questions from the issue of cloning to privacy and communication because as much as they make life easier and are indications of what humanity can achieve, they also beg the question “are we losing our humanity”? This issue has poised technology and religion against each oth...Continue Reading »

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• 288. AFRICAN LANGUAGE AS AN ADEQUATE DEPICTION OF AN ADEQUATE AFRICAN REALITY

  » CHAPTER ONE. EVOLVING ON ADEQUATE YORUBA LANGUAGE 1.0 INTRODUCTION This chapter will examine Godwin Azenabor’s view that the particular language used to report African philosophical temperament is insignificant as long as the temperament reported is acceptable. The chapter argues that what is important is the fact that one must be communicating with the audience to be address. The implicatio...Continue Reading »

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• 289. CHARACTER TRAITS (TOUGH MINDNESS AND AGGRESSION) AND STRESS AS PREDICTORS OF ALC...

  » ABSTRACT The study is geared towards exploring some predicting variables of alcohol use among police officers in Nigeria. Hence, the study investigates whether – character traits (tough mindness and aggression) as well as stress are significant predictors of alcohol use among police officers in Ibadan metropolis. 500 police officers, which comprises of 488 males and 12 females completed the ...Continue Reading »

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• 290. INDIRECT REALISM IN JOHN LOCKE: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE REPRESENTATIONALI...

  » 1.0 Introduction The aim of this chapter will include; an attempt to establish the nature of the controversy between direct and indirect realism right from the period of John Locke who had established the foundations for the debate. The rationalists had come to lay a foundation of our knowledge on supposedly certain and indubitable foundations in reasoning, Locke too, in his empiricism began to oc...Continue Reading »

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• 291. A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE EMPIRICISM OF DAVID HUME AND THE PROBLEM OF INDUCTIO...

  » CHAPTER ONE Background to the Problem 1.0 Introduction Once the task of the rationalists in establishing “certain knowledge” derived from reasoning seemed set, Locke’s attempt to revive empiricism was necessitated. This allowed him to introduce into the scene the concept of tabula rasa or blank slate upon which experience imprints. This in turn seemed to have established the nece...Continue Reading »

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• 292. INDIRECT REALISM IN JOHN LOCKE: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE REPRESENTATIONALI...

  » 1.0 Introduction The aim of this chapter will include; an attempt to establish the nature of the controversy between direct and indirect realism right from the period of John Locke who had established the foundations for the debate. The rationalists had come to lay a foundation of our knowledge on supposedly certain and indubitable foundations in reasoning, Locke too, in his empiricism began to oc...Continue Reading »

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• 293. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT: A PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL

  » THE PLACE OF WOMEN IN THE SOCIETY In our society, the status of women is low compared to that of men, it is a common belief that women are inferior to men, hence, women are always under the control of men either directly or indirectly1. Since the origin of world, women are expected to be dependent on males and do as they are command or ordered to do. Women are seen as objects or property or even i...Continue Reading »

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• 294. THE PLACE OF WOMEN IN THE SOCIETY

  » In our society, the status of women is low compared to that of men, it is a common belief that women are inferior to men, hence, women are always under the control of men either directly or indirectly1. Since the origin of world, women are expected to be dependent on males and do as they are command or ordered to do. Women are seen as objects or property or even instrument to be used as they (make...Continue Reading »

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• 295. WESTERN CULTURE AND YORUBA ETHICS: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS

  » 2.1 FAMILY LIFE In dealing with this topic, a topic of functionalism will be adopted for the elucidation of its major social facts. The key point of the functionalist perspective could be summarized by a comparison drawn from the working of the body system (homeostatis) to that of a family in a society. This we can achieve by examining the various parts such as brain, lungs, the heart, the liver e...Continue Reading »

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• 296. MORAL JUSTIFICATION OF THE STATE INTERFERANCE WITH THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF...

  » 2.2 ORIGIN OF RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES. Rights and liberties are provided by the state and are safeguarded by the state under a situation reminiscent of a contractual condition, rights and liberties are provided to make men actualize their aims, ambitions and aspiration within the state such rights and liberties range from political, legal as we have earlier argued are not in existent. This is because...Continue Reading »

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• 297. KNOWLEDGE IN TRADITIONAL AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE: A CRITIQUE

  » AFRICAN WORLD VIEWS AS BASIS FOR AFRICAN EPISTEMOLOGY In our examination of the nature of African Epistemology, we shall more or less be following the analysis of Temples, Ruch, Anyanwu, Abanuka, Onyewuenyi and other African scholars who in one way or the other have written philosophical treaties about African Epistemology. There seems to be a tacit agreement amongst the above mentioned philosophe...Continue Reading »

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• 298. INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL NETWORKING (E.G FACEBOOK) ON PHYSICAL INTE...

  » THEORETICAL FRAME WORK USES AND GRATIFICATION THEORY: (Lazaisfeld and Stanbon (1944) Uses and gratification theory has provided a frame work for examining the satisfaction of needs and interests through different forms of communications media (Kartz, Blumler and Gvievitch, 1974). If two media serve similar needs then they can act as functional alternatives. However, if they are designed to serve d...Continue Reading »

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• 299. A CRITIQUE OF WIREDU'S CONCEPT OF TRUTH

  » TABLE OF CONTENTS Title page Certification Dedication Acknowledgements Table of contents Abstract CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Theories of Truth The nature and traditional theories of truth The semantic theory of truth..............................4 The correspondence theory of truth........................................................6 The coherence theory of truth.............................................Continue Reading »

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• 300. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF AKAN AND YORUBA CONCEPTION OF A PERSON

  » Abstract The concept of a person held by a group of people is fundamental in understanding not only how a person within such framework of thought views himself but also how other matters such as the idea of being, morality, knowledge and truth that are essential for the ordering of the society are viewed. This is emphasized by the fact that such a concept encapsulates the role the society expects ...Continue Reading »

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