PHILOSOPHY PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 121. HANS-GEORG GADAMER ON PREJUDICE AND THE TRANSMODERN PROJECT.

  » ABSTRACT There is no doubt that there is an urgent need to imagine another world in the face of the fall outs of the current world order. The urgency of this need for ‘another world’ or ‘a world in which all worlds fit’ is the primary motivation for this research. In line with this motivation, this work is aimed at examining the concept of prejudice within Gadamer’s p...Continue Reading »

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• 122. CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF GEORGE EDWARD MOORE’S DIRECT REALIST EPISTEMOLOGICAL A...

  » ABSTRACT George Edward Moore, in his quest to establish a direct realist account of cognition and to refute skepticism and absolute idealism, which is a brand of metaphysical monism, argued that at least some of our beliefs about the world are absolutely certain. Moore argues that these beliefs are ‘commonsense’. All the arguments put forth by G.E. Moore in his classic works; A Defense...Continue Reading »

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• 123. ALTERITY AND REVERSIBILITY IN MERLEAU-PONTY: A DISCOURSE ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY A...

  » ABSTRACT Cultural diversity is increasingly becoming an inevitable feature of most modern states. This is because trade, tourism, international dialogue amongst scholars, scientists and artists and the movement of skilled labour as well as migration have ensured that few countries do not contain within them significant numbers of peoples from other cultures. A likely consequence of this diversity ...Continue Reading »

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• 124. PHILOSOPHICAL SURVEY IN THE MORALITY OF SPINOZA IN THE LIGHT OF HIS EVIL AND GOO...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION The problem of good and evil in the world of ours has become questionable. Good and evil without doubt have constituted lots of discomfort, havoc and other problems in human life. Consequently, so many thinkers of different epochs have contributed in one way or the other according to their own understanding, to unravel this dilemma. Nevertheless, throughout the...Continue Reading »

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• 125. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MACHIAVELLIAN PRINCIPLE AND NIGERIAN SOCIETY.

  » INTRODUCTION Niccolo Machiavelli appears to have generated more controversy than any of his contemporaries. So much notoriety has gathered around his name that the charge of being a Machiavellian still remains a serious accusation in current political debate. Political thinkers from time immemorial had propounded one theory after another, all geared toward the betterment and upliftment of humanity...Continue Reading »

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• 126. A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF EPISTEMIC TERMS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF FEMINIST EPISTEMO...

  » ABSTRACT This work takes a critical look at the term “Feminist epistemology” as well as their evaluation of the “epistemic terms” Feminist who are trying arguing that the quest for knowledge, which epistemology is centred on, should not be male oriented only, but that the female gender should be given an ear say in the discus of knowledge. The task of this project is to elu...Continue Reading »

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• 127. A CRITIQUE ON FREUDIAN PSYCHOSEXUAL ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE CHILD

  » CHAPTER ONE PROBLEM AND BACKGROUND 1.1 INTRODUCTION In the annals of history, sex has remained a mystery to both man and the society at large. Its importance in human life is so evident, yet no single human being has been able to give a conclusive explanation of what sex is. No human experience has been able to demystify the hidden meanings of this particular concept. Freud rightly asserts that, &...Continue Reading »

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• 128. CONSCIENCE IN THOMAS AQUINAS: A PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION

  » 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 conscience and its place in the ...Continue Reading »

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• 129. THE EXISTENCE OF GOD AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL A PHILOSOPHICAL EVALUATION

  » 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 connotes a black sheep of the family. Man shares q...Continue Reading »

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• 130. NIGERIA POLICE FORCE: PROBLEMS AND ISSUES 1930- 2010

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study: An adequate analysis of the problems and challenges of any police force should thus start with the appreciation of the history and dynamics of its development. History of the police forces in Nigeria indicates that the various forces were established, organized and maintained by colonial and post colonial governments primarily for order maintenance...Continue Reading »

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• 131. AFRICAN UNION AND PEACEKEEPING IN AFRICA: A STUDY OF SOUTH SUDAN

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Peace is a global issue and as easy as it seems, it has proved difficult to achieve and maintain. More than one hundred thousand uniformed peacekeepers were deployed in Africa in early 2015, twice as many as a decade before. Somalia, the Western Sudanese region of Darfur, South Sudan, and Mali to name a few countries where civil wars and rebelli...Continue Reading »

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• 132. AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE TO THE SOURCES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE

  » CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Philosophy as a discipline deals with knowledge and it is also a second order discipline, which looks into the fundamental aspects of life and evaluate other knowledge claims held by different disciplines. Epistemology is a branch in the study of philosophy that deals with knowledge. As one would expect, African epistemology is a branch of Afri...Continue Reading »

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• 133. A PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUE OF KARL MARX’S CONCEPTION OF RELIGION.

  » TITLE. . . . . . . . . . ii CERTIFICATION. . . . . . . . iii DEDICATION. . . . . . . . iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. . . . . . . v TABLE OF CONTENTS. . . . . . . vii CHAPTER ONE 1.0 General Introduction. . . . . . . 1 1.1 Purpose of the Study . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Statement of the Problem . . . . . . . . . 3 1.3 Scope of the Study . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.4 Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.5 Divis...Continue Reading »

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• 134. MODERN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN LIFE: AN ETHICAL ANALYSIS

  » TABLE OF CONTENTS TITTLE ……………………………………………………………i CERTIFIACTION…………………………………………………..iiDEDICATION…&h...Continue Reading »

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• 135. FRIENDSHIP OF UNEQUAL IN ARISTOTLE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS VIS A VIS GODFATHERISM IN ...

  » 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 where the investors...Continue Reading »

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• 136. AN INSIGHT ON LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN LANGHANGE THEORY.

  » ABSTRACT This essay is a critical study of Ludwig Wittgenstein Language theory. Before we give a through explanation of the entire “essay,” an introduction is being made where the language is going to be linked to philosophy, and not just philosophy, but how also it concerns the linguistic value of our everyday conception of ideas. In introducing the topic we start by giving an overvie...Continue Reading »

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• 137. IMPACTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN NNEWI ANAMBRA STATE: THE ANGLICANS AS A CASE STUDY.

  » ABSTRACT Christianity as a religion has affected all spheres of life among the people of Nigeria. A careful study of the religious background of the Nnewi people will show that Christianity has found its way into both the urban and rural areas of the Nnewi society. This study is aimed at looking into the relevance of Christianity in the development of the Nnewi nation. For better understanding of ...Continue Reading »

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• 138. A CRITIQUE OF ROBERT NOZICK’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Robert Nozick (1938 2002) was an American philosopher, best known for his rigorous defense of libertarianism in his first major work, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974). During his high school and college years, Nozick was a member of the student new left and an enthusiastic socialist. At Columbia, he helped to found a campus branch of the league for industrial democracy. W...Continue Reading »

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• 139. WIRED PHILOSOPHY OF CONSENSUS: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND OF STUDY Falsification as a principle or theory which holds that for any hypothesis to be cognitively significant, true or scientific it must be inherently disprovable by experience before it can be accepted as a scientific hypothesis or theory. This principle is associated with the twentieth century Austrian British Philosopher of science known as Sir Karl,...Continue Reading »

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• 140. AN EXAMINATION ON SOREN KIERKEGAARD’S NOTION OF HUMAN EXISTENCE

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Soren Kierkegaard is regarded as the father of contemporary existentialism. Existentialism, according to J. I. Omoregbe (39) deals “with concrete existence as opposed to essence.” This means, for the existentialists, existence precedes essence. Kierkegaard, described by Wittgenstein (cited in Pattison, 1) is “by far the most pr...Continue Reading »

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