[{"id": "aquino-1047", "words": "8791", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Hyginus Chibuike EZEBUILO", "title": "POLITICAL EXCLUSION AND DOMESTIC TERRORISM IN AFRICA", "date": "2021", "keywords": "africa; attacks; exclusion; experience; government; grievances; groups; inclusion; people; power; state; study; terrorism; violence", "summary": "The results of this study suggests that ethnic group political exclusion is a key element in the generation of domestic terrorism and, therefore, policies aimed at fostering inclusiveness could be a useful counterterrorism tool. Furthermore, ethnic group political exclusion is a more consistent and substantive predictor of domestic terrorist activity than general political repression or economic discrimination.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1048", "words": "5010", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Oreoluwa Idris ADESANYA", "title": "REVIEWING MODERN SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE WITHIN THE SCOPE OF NIETZSCHE\u2019S IRRATIONALISM", "date": "2021", "keywords": "irrationalism; knowledge; life; nature; nietzsche; philosophy; rationality; reason; science", "summary": "Scientific knowledge is esteemed to be a systematic inquiry, which emphasizes the superiority of human reason over human intuitions, instincts and impulses. As fallout of Nietzsche\u2019s irrationalist doctrines is the contention that the enterprise of science can be more comprehensive in terms of approach and method by acknowledging and adopting the irrational sources of human knowledge.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1049", "words": "6562", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Lukman Ademola LAWAL", "title": "AGAINST METHODISM: A SOCIO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF SCIENCE", "date": "2021", "keywords": "idea; knowledge; kuhn; method; philosophy; popper; science; scientists; theories; theory", "summary": "However, only a few scientists have shown interest in the methodology of science, as such; thereby leaving the conceptualization and critical evaluation of the idea of scientific method to philosophers of science. It involves how a scientific course of action or research program is being carried out, while scientific method refers to the rules of decision that guide the scientist on which particular technique to employ.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1050", "words": "5931", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Zaria Ibrahim ABUBAKAR", "title": "A CRITIQUE OF THE DIVINE COMMAND THEORY OF ETHICS FROM THE TEACHINGS OF THE ABRAHAMIC RELIGION", "date": "2021", "keywords": "command; command theory; divine; ethics; god; good; morality; ockham; theory", "summary": "Marvin Fox, another advocate of Jewish divine command ethics, makes several statements in support of the claim that Jewish tradition endorses various versions of divine command theory. But Graber (1975) argues that divine command theory of ethics has more going for it than has been generally acknowledged.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1051", "words": "3248", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Charles C. NWEKE", "title": "ON THE PHILOSPHIC FOUNDATION OF SCIENCE", "date": "2021", "keywords": "century; foundation; history; knowledge; october; philosophy; science", "summary": "American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) maintain in their \u201cHistory and Philosophy of Science\u201d that: Until the 19th century, natural science was primarily known as \u201cnatural philosophy\u201d, and contemporary philosophy still maintains deep connections with science. Spirkin avers to this effect that, \u201cMany general guiding ideas that lie at the foundation of modern science were first enunciated by the perceptive force of philosophical thought.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1052", "words": "5377", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Stephen Timothy AKPAN; Michael BENEDICT", "title": "EXCLUSIVE RATIONALISM AND EMPIRICISM: A DISSERVICE TO THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE", "date": "2021", "keywords": "empiricism; experience; knowledge; philosophy; rationalism; reason; senses", "summary": "This is a philosophical position whose basic teaching on its source of knowledge holds that true knowledge can only be gotten through reasoning. Both Plato and Descartes maintain that true knowledge is already within us in the nature of innate ideas, which we do not acquire but are born within (Popkin and Stroll, 1993, p. 203), and the process of learning begins with these basic ideas known as innate.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1053", "words": "8484", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "16", "author": "Clement Chimaobi EMEFU", "title": "A NATION\u2019S ECONOMY IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ERA: WHAT NIGERIA CAN LEARN FROM FRANCE", "date": "2021", "keywords": "covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; crisis; economy; french; government; https://africacheck.org/reports/no-nigeria-is-not-the-worlds-biggest-champagne-consumer-after-france/; https://guardian.ng/saturday-magazine/fgs-covid-19-palliatives-why-nigerians-are-not-feeling-the-impact/; https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/20/gm-to-lend-its-auto-factories-to-support-production-of-ventilators-in-coronavirus-fight.html#close; https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/20/gm-to-lend-its-auto-factories-to-support-production-of-ventilators-in-coronavirus-fight.html#close https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/20/gm-to-lend-its-auto-factories-to-support-production-of-ventilators-in-coronavirus-fight.html#close; https://www.la-croix.com/religion/catholicisme/france/solidaires-malades-coronavirus-religieuses-fabriquent-masques-sanitaires-2020-03-31-1201086997; https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2020/11/09/covid-19-comm8ent-la-pandemie-va-durablement-peser-sur-l-economie_6059025_3234.html; https://www.ouest-france.fr/sante/virus/coronavirus/coronavirus-l-entreprise-de-cosmetiques-l-occitane-se-reconvertit-dans-la-production-de-gel-6795509; nigeria; pandemic; state; world", "summary": "Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is revelatory of both positive and negative states of world economies. According to philosophers and those who wrote on political economy in the late 18th century and most of the 19th century, the economic role of the State was limited to compensating for externalities and possible distortions arising from the dysfunction of markets and the provision of public goods.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1054", "words": "5137", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Victoria OpenifOluwa AKOLEOWO", "title": "A THOMISTIC INTERPRETATION OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FOR NATIONAL UNITY", "date": "2021", "keywords": "education; god; good; human; knowledge; religion; society; unity; world", "summary": "A closer analysis of Noelliste\u2019s definition of theological education highlights the fact that theological education is education which is geared towards a particular purpose, which is the transformation of individuals. Abstract This paper contends that theological education promotes national unity when it recognizes the need to construct a notion of \u2018the common good\u2019 as the basis of national unity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1055", "words": "7100", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Justin Nnaemeka ONYEUKAZIRI", "title": "A PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION ON PLOTINUS\u2019 CONCEPT OF BEAUTY AS AN ECSTATIC EXPERIENCE OF THE SOUL", "date": "2021", "keywords": "beauty; form; intellect; person; plotinus; soul; world", "summary": "For instance, with respect to the concept of beauty, Yount (2014:49), notes: Both philosophers hold the following claims to be true: beauty is a Form; beauty is similar to but not identical with the Good; one can have a transformative vision of Beauty; the imitator (artist, poet) of Beauty does not know if the imitations are in fact beautiful or how bad his imitations are. 3. Plotinus\u2019 Analysis and Critique of the General Concept of Beauty Plotinus\u2019 concept of beauty is brilliantly exposed in his treatise entitled, On Beauty.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1056", "words": "5022", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Barnabas Obiora IDOKO", "title": "PHILOSOPHY, THE CHURCH AND QUEST FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIBERATION IN NIGERIA", "date": "2021", "keywords": "church; country; justice; liberation; masses; nigeria; philosophy; society; state; system", "summary": "The third and final section deals with the liberating role of the Church in achieving the desired justice in the socioeconomic life of Nigeria. It is from this perspective that philosophy is used in this research to serve the purpose of socioeconomic liberation of Nigeria through the Church.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1057", "words": "5136", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Anthony Ugochukwu NWOKOYE", "title": "AN ASSESSMENT OF THE THEORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS", "date": "2021", "keywords": "ecosystem; environmental; ethics; human; nature; new; nonhuman; philosophy; species; value", "summary": "On his clarification and distinction of environmental ethics from other new applied philosophies, Rolston avers that; Environmental ethics is more radical in applying ethics outside the sector of human interests. Abstract Environmental issues have become problematic over the years, ranging from the conflicting theories of environmental ethics to the appropriate ethics suitable in addressing environmental problems.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1058", "words": "6495", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Chukwunonso Vitalis OGBO", "title": "FOSTERING INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN NIGERIA", "date": "2021", "keywords": "christians; church; dialogue; fults; god; islam; muslims; nigeria; ogbo; people; religions", "summary": "Interreligious dialogue \u201cis about people of different faiths coming to a mutual understanding and respect that allows them to live and cooperate with each other in spite of their differences (Fult, 2020).According to Sandi Fults, interreligious dialogue is a challenging process by which adherents of different religious traditions encounter each other in order to break down the walls of division that stand at the center of most wars (Fults, 2020). 135 FOSTERING INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN NIGERIA Chukwunonso Vitalis OGBO", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1830", "words": "3559", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Ikechukwu Anthony KANU", "title": "THE HELLENIZATION OF AFRICAN TRADITIONAL DEITIES: THE CASE OF EKWENSU AND ESU", "date": "2021", "keywords": "african; deities; ekwensu; esu; greek; hellenization; religion; yoruba", "summary": "The Hellenization Of African Traditional Deities 2 understand the depth of the Hellenization of African traditional deities. Okot (1969) discovers that the misinterpretation of African religion by these scholars is based on the drive to understand African traditional religion within the conceptual framework of the west.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1831", "words": "8615", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "17", "author": "Columbus N. OGBUJAH Ph.D; Nympha U. NKAMA", "title": "PANDEMICS AND THE FUTURE OF ETHICS IN DEMOCRACIES", "date": "2021", "keywords": "countries; democracies; democracy; disease; ethics; future; government; health; https://thenationonlineng.net/n288b-covid-19-relief-fund-how-govt-mdas-scammed-us-by-sme-owners/?utm_term=ozy&utm_campaign=daily-dose&utm_content=monday_07.19.21&utm_source=campaigner&utm_medium=email https://thenationonlineng.net/n288b-covid-19-relief-fund-how-govt-mdas-scammed-us-by-sme-owners/?utm_term=ozy&utm_campaign=daily-dose&utm_content=monday_07.19.21&utm_source=campaigner&utm_medium=email; human; influenza; journal; nigeria; ogbujah; pandemic; people; principle; rights; spread; virus; world", "summary": "In his incisive article \u2013 \u201cThe elusive definition of pandemic influenza,\u201d Peter Doshi (2011) uses the WHO pandemic influenza guidelines, 1999\u20132009 to buttress his thesis, claiming that, at best, what the world body bequeaths to us is a descriptive-definition. For him, the WHO has inexplicably refrained from offering a formal quotable definition of pandemic influenza.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1832", "words": "5792", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Arinze ONWUZULIKE", "title": "ETHICS WITH (OUT) SUCCESS: BETWEEN SCHELER AND KANT", "date": "2021", "keywords": "action; ethics; person; scheler; success; tenor; value; willing", "summary": "It is scheler's manner of maintaining that he does not want to end up allowing outcome be the determinant of moral values. Without the value-orientation securely fastened on the basic moral tenor, our willing will be directionless with regard to moral values.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1833", "words": "7944", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Isaac Chidi IGWE Ph.D.", "title": "OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF DEATH: A CLUE FROM AN ONTOLOGICAL ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN HEIDEGGER AND SARTRE", "date": "2021", "keywords": "death; existence; fear; heidegger; human; life; man; meaning; possibility; sartre", "summary": "The Igwe Overcoming the Fear of Death: A Clue from an Ontological 2 adjectives 'biological and corporeal' are meant to distinguish the nature of death under consideration as against what I call the consolatory view that those who died, still live in a way; or as against the notion of life as a prison of the soul. The Phenomenon of Death While there are those who see death as a cessation of life which reality does not come into being the very day it occurs but had always being present since the day life assumes its being; there are others who believe it is a closing of human earthly account and a mere passage to another form of life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1834", "words": "4573", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Gabriel ASUQUO", "title": "JUXTAPOSITION OF WESTERN, ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN METAPHYSICAL ORIENTATIONS", "date": "2021", "keywords": "african; metaphysics; oriental; orientations; philosophy; things; world", "summary": "African metaphysical orientation is integrative and complementary in the sense that Being is a Binary Complementarity of the opposite i.e. there is a reciprocal relationship between nothing and something. Therefore we can submit that African metaphysical orientations are tilt towards integration, complementarity, and holism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1835", "words": "4915", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "M. E. ABAM, Ph.D.", "title": "TOWARDS AN INCLUSIVE HUMANISM", "date": "2021", "keywords": "african; community; ehusani; humanism; live; people; philosophy; sense; world", "summary": "Assassinations, kidnappings, terrorism, corruption, genocides to mention but a few all mitigate our search for global humanism. If global humanism must be attained, it is pertinent we imbibe these African virtues of one being his brother's keeper as exemplified in the dignity placed on human worth.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1836", "words": "4553", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Sirajudeen OWOSHO, Ph.D.", "title": "TOWARDS AFRICA'S TRANSFORMATION IN THE TWENTY- FIRST CENTURY: A DIALECTICAL APPRAISAL OF AUTHENTIC NATIONHOOD", "date": "2021", "keywords": "africa; development; dialectics; history; nation; new; process; self", "summary": "Economic reforms among Africa nations must put great emphasis on home-made goods instead of importation of foreign goods. 1 TOWARDS AFRICA'S TRANSFORMATION IN THE TWENTY- FIRST CENTURY: A DIALECTICAL APPRAISAL OF AUTHENTIC NATIONHOOD Sirajudeen OWOSHO, Ph.D. Abstract The economic, political and socio-cultural realities among African nations reveal a gruesome picture of inauthentic nationhood.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1837", "words": "4317", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Samuel Otu ISHAYA, Ph.D.", "title": "COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF RATIONALISM AND CRITICAL RATIONALISM: IMPLICATIONS FOR GENERAL STUDIES AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "date": "2021", "keywords": "courses; descartes; development; knowledge; philosophy; rationalism; studies", "summary": "Karl Popper (2002) on the other hand did not completely disagree with Descartes: for him reason is important in knowledge development but affirms that \u201cthere are no ultimate sources of knowledge; every source, every suggestion is welcome; and every source; every suggestion is open to criticism\u201d (p. 35). These are the challenges that rationalism and critical rationalism seek to address: the total liberation of the individuals' mind from the dark world of ignorance to the light of rational knowledge to comprehend reality for self and nation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1838", "words": "8211", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Ratzinger NWOBODO, Ph.D.", "title": "A BEFITTING LIVING OR BURIAL: PERSPECTIVES OF LIFE AND DEATH IN IGBO ONOTOLOGY", "date": "2021", "keywords": "ancestors; burial; dead; death; igbo; life; living; man; people; person; spirit", "summary": "However, death in Igbo culture could be divided into Ezi onwu (good death) and onwu ojoo( bad death) . Ezi onwu (good death) is when a man dies a natural death, by living a good ( ethical) life and being accorded a befitting burial while onwu ojoo (bad death) is when a man dies through accident or disease like leprosy, tuberculosis, swollen Aquino Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 1(3), 2021 ISSN: 2786-9792 9 stomach, small pox etc.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1839", "words": "6553", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Chinyere T. OJIAKOR, Ph.D. ; Asso. Prof. Aloy Nnamdi OBIKA", "title": "BEYOND RACE, FICTIVE AND ILLUSORY: K. SELLO DUIKER'S THIRTEEN CENTS AND THE QUIET VIOLENCE OF DREAMS", "date": "2021", "keywords": "africa; apartheid; azure; black; cents; characters; duiker; novel; race; south; tshepo; violence; white", "summary": "In South Africa race and class has historically been mutually constitutive. While skin colour is taken to be the prime signifier of racial identity, the concept of 'race' receives its meaning contextually and in relation to other groups and hierarchies such as gender and class.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1840", "words": "4076", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Mayokun Joyce OLOWONIYI", "title": "AN ASSESSMENT OF KWASI WIREDU'S DEMOCRACY AND CONSENSUS IN AFRICAN TRADITIONAL POLITICS: A PLEA FOR A NON PARTY POLITY.", "date": "2021", "keywords": "african; consensus; democracy; society; traditional; wiredu", "summary": "This paper seeks to examine Wiredu's idea of consensual democracy through the assessment of his claim about common interest and rational discussion for substantive representation. The first entails an overview of the traditional accounts of Wiredu on the idea of consensual democracy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1841", "words": "5561", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Barnabas TURMAN ; Philip ISANBOR", "title": "ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS ON HUMAN HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE", "date": "2021", "keywords": "actions; aristotle; ethics; good; happiness; human; isanbor; pleasure", "summary": "Hence, to Aristotle, morality of human pleasure and happiness is a content of reason of one's choice or action as a determinant of one's rationality and intelligibility. With morality or the employment of ethical principles, the society defines or categorises human actions (good or bad, virtuous or vicious), and then determines the ways the human person has to live, corresponding to his or her moral decisions and responsibilities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1842", "words": "5652", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Yusuf DOGARA", "title": "NIGERIA ON THE WHEEL OF DECAY: THE BOOK OF AMOS AND QUEST FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE", "date": "2021", "keywords": "amos; god; injustice; israel; justice; message; nigeria; nigerians; people; society; socio; time", "summary": "Social justice in this context is based on human rights and equality which social injustice does not guarantee. And the original message of prophet Amos stresses the divine demand for social justice and concern for the oppressed in 8th century Israel.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1843", "words": "4189", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Aanuoluwapo F. SUNDAY, Ph.D.", "title": "RETHINKING THE PRIMITIVISM IN YORUBA ETHNOMEDICINE FOR CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE", "date": "2021", "keywords": "african; culture; ethnomedicine; health; medicine; people; primitivism; yoruba", "summary": "This work sets as its problem, the case of primitivism against Yoruba traditional medicine which has made gloomy and dimed its relevance and effectiveness in contemporary times. They discussed Yoruba traditional medicine.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-1844", "words": "7093", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Hyginus Chibuike EZEBUILO, Ph.D. ; Solomon Ewezuga NWANKWO", "title": "KOLA NUT IN BONACHRISTUS UMEOGU'S IGBO METAPHYSICS", "date": "2021", "keywords": "god; igbo; kola; kola nut; man; nature; nut; oji; reality; umeogu; world", "summary": "As such, (Ogbalu, 1974:51) argues that, \u201ckola nut is one of the fruits which cannot be removed by the people not even by the Whiteman from Igboland\u201d Critically, irrespective of the distance covered by Igbo kola nut tradition, Umeogu's kolanutology suffers short life span due to its recognition of gender inequality. Nevertheless, the structure, administration and functioning of Igbo society can be observed in Igbo kola nut.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2498", "words": "3925", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Rev Fr Gerald OHAERI, Cssp, Ph.D", "title": "INVESTIGATING THE FOUNDATIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND MORALITY: A NIGERIAN PERSPECTIVE", "date": "2022", "keywords": "foundation; issue; morality; nigeria; page; relationship; religion; society", "summary": "Within the Nigerian situation or context, we hope finally to discuss why religion or religious morality cannot solve our problems. Apostles of religious morality (i.e. religion-based morality) maintain that all human actions, judged as moral, have their origin in a divine command and could not have come to be without this divine intervention/command.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2499", "words": "4835", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Bonaventure Chike ANETOH, Ph.D.", "title": "AN EVALUATION OF PAUL FEYERABEND'S ANARCHICAL APPROACH IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE", "date": "2022", "keywords": "anarchism; approach; feyerabend; investigation; philosophy; science; scientific", "summary": "Paul Feyerabend championed scientific anarchism. Occasionally, the laws of scientific method or what are thought to be the laws of scientific method by a particular writer, are even integrated into anarchism itself.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2500", "words": "3804", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Prof. Ikechukwu Anthony KANU, OSA.", "title": "THE AMBIGUITIES OF OKOT P'BITEK'S DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICAN RELIGION", "date": "2022", "keywords": "african; god; okot; p'bitek; people; philosophy; religion; scholars", "summary": "More so, Okot went further to condemn the use of concepts by African scholars like John S. Mbiti; concepts such as omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscience, eternal, etc., as Christian concepts in replacement for African traditional concepts like great, strong, wise, old, etc., respectively. African religion was understood not the way it is but the way the west could understand it.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2501", "words": "4644", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "M.E. ABAM, Ph.D", "title": "A CASE FOR CULTURAL RELATIVISM IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD", "date": "2022", "keywords": "culture; language; philosophy; reality; relativism; rorty; truth; world", "summary": "JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY-4TH-EDITION (AQUINO)-2022 Abstract It has been argued that cultural relativism has only created greater problems for humanity in the sense that it has helped polarize the world along the line of difference. Put differently, many have argued that, cultural relativism in its many strands, if allowed to stand will plunge the world into a theatre of intolerance and ultimately, conflict.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2502", "words": "7298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Akinpelu A. OYEKUNLE, Ph.D", "title": "RE-CONCEPTUALISING AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY AS DEVELOPMENTAL TOOL IN THE AGE OF GLOBALISATION", "date": "2022", "keywords": "africa; challenges; dimension; factors; identity; life; objective; philosophy; view", "summary": "AQUINO)-2022 Abstract: This paper problematises the definition challenge for African philosophy and attempts an analytical reconceptualization of African Philosophy. A caveat to note, however, is that the attempt at conceptualizing African Philosophy is not an apologia of the existence of African philosophy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2503", "words": "3998", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Charles B. BEREBON, Ph.D ; Judith G. GWATANA", "title": "ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: REVISITING THE PARADIGM SHIFT AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION", "date": "2022", "keywords": "activities; climate; degradation; environment; ethics; human; life; nature; philosophy", "summary": "There are catalogues of environmental disciplines from numerous faculties of human research such as environmental philosophy and ethics, environmental epidemiology, environmental microbiology, geography, environmental management, economics, and more. Environmental philosophy involves the reflection of nature which transcends the question about the 'ought' and 'is' of the natural world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2504", "words": "5931", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Abubakar Zaria IBRAHIM, Ph.D", "title": "VIRTUE IN THE DIVINE COMMAND THEORY OF ETHICS FROM THE SOKOTO CALIPHATE SCHOLARS", "date": "2022", "keywords": "abdullahi; command; divine; ethics; god; human; morality; scholars; sokoto; theory; virtue", "summary": "In philosophy, virtue was not only human quality or moral virtue, but also the quality of anything in the performance of its needed function. The VIRTUE IN THE DIVINE COMMAND THEORY OF ETHICS FROM THE SOKOTO CALIPHATE SCHOLARS Abubakar Zaria IBRAHIM, Ph.D 63 criterion for distinguishing moral commands from such non-moral directives as religious commands can be provided by philosophical analysis of the concept of morality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2505", "words": "4759", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Chinyere C. EMEDO, PhD; Johnkingsley N. EMEDO", "title": "NEGLECT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THE BANE OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA", "date": "2022", "keywords": "africa; countries; development; emedo; government; human; intelligence; technology; use; world", "summary": "\u201c The use of AI machines in the market applications such as online trading and decision making has changed major economic theories. Therefore, as AI application accelerates across many 78 Aquino Journal of Philosophy, Vol 2 Issue 1 2022-June ISSN: 2786-9792 sectors, it is vital that we reimaging our educational institutions for a world where AI will be ubiquitous and students need a different kind of training they currently receive.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2506", "words": "3507", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Charles EHISIENMEN", "title": "RE-MYTHOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF REINCARNATION IN BENIN TRADITION", "date": "2022", "keywords": "benin; death; life; person; reincarnation; tradition", "summary": "The work re-mythological concept of reincarnation in Benin tradition is very important that the researcher discuss the concept of reincarnation, history of Benin, concept of death and reincarnation, life before and after death, symbol in Benin traditional reincarnation and the implication of reincarnation. Osaretin Ekhator (personal interview, 2022) Concept of Reincarnation in Benin Religion; Baptist Baptist College of Theology Benin City.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2507", "words": "6965", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Evaristus IFEANACHO, Ph.D", "title": "THEO-PHILOSOPHICAL IMPORT OF \u201cSUBDUE THE EARTH\u201d (GEN.1,28): SUBDUING INSECURITY IN NIGERIA THROUGH CRITICAL THINKING", "date": "2022", "keywords": "development; earth; education; environmental; fact; human; journal; page; people; public; reason; security; thinking; use", "summary": "These pillars of what we now understand as the people-centered concept of human security are interrelated and mutually reinforcing. Low education often translates to absence of competitive skill, adequate income, exclusion from participating in vital political and economic and social organizations and relations; lack of access to adequate food and nutrition, housing, health care and efficient public emergency and safety services-all which are element on human security.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2508", "words": "6503", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Gabriel ASUQUO; Augustine Ibrahim MUSA", "title": "KWASI WIREDU AND THE AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT QUAGMIRE: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS", "date": "2022", "keywords": "african; contemporary; culture; development; kwasi; philosophy; project; self; society; traditional; wiredu", "summary": "The challenge of self-definition is identified in blending the positive aspects of African culture with other cultures, while that of development is found in the cultivation of a rational outlook of life, scientific and technical advancement. What readily comes to mind is the question, how can this blend take place without Western dominating and assimilating African culture?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2509", "words": "6841", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Salaudin USMAN Ph.D; Benedict MICHAEL, Ph.D", "title": "DEATH(ISU): SUSPENDED ANIMATION PROGRAMME IN EBIRA TAO THOUGHT", "date": "2022", "keywords": "african; death; ebira; ebira tao; human; life; living; man; philosophy; print; tao; world", "summary": "Keywords: Animation, Death, Pragmatic, Ratiocinative, Existential Introduction Birth, death and hereafter or life-after-death forms the most fundamental thought- provoking phenomena which impact on humankind in the physical and spiritual life existence. The paper apart from the introduction is divided into five parts, the first examine the notion of human existence, section two looks at the universal conception of death, while the third section looks at African notion of death, section four looks at Death as Transitional Process in African (Ebira Tao) Thought, this will be followed by the fifth section which examines Life- After-Death as Basis for Suspended Animation Process in African Metaphysics, this will be followed by conclusion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2510", "words": "6436", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Anthony Chikaeme ONWULIRI", "title": "ETHICAL ISSUES AND THE BANE OF NIGERIA'S ECONOMY: A PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION.", "date": "2022", "keywords": "behaviour; business; business ethics; employees; ethics; firm; journal; nepotism; nigeria; practices; principles; result; workers", "summary": "The study concludes that with effective oversight by business regulatory agencies, stricter enforcement of legal requirements for doing business in Nigeria, and corporate adoption of an ethical culture, ethical business practices can be restored in the Nigerian business environment, resulting in economic growth and development for the country. While governments must guarantee that individuals who break laws intended to prohibit unethical business conduct face consistent enforcement action, governments may also take proactive initiatives to promote ethical business behaviour before the occurrence of unethical activities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2511", "words": "3257", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Mayokun Joyce OLOWONIYI", "title": "PATRIARCHAL INFLUENCE ON THE RIGHT OF WOMEN OVER THEIR BODIES", "date": "2022", "keywords": "african; culture; gender; proverbs; society; women; yoruba", "summary": "It aims at submitting that there is a need to merge patriarchy with women freedom as a blend for the development of our society so that the women will at least be able to live as human. Hence, there is the need to merge patriarchy with a 'limited version of women freedom' as a blend for the development of our society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2512", "words": "5550", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Akande Michael AINA, Ph.D; Motadegbe Adewale OLUWASENU", "title": "THE INTERACTION AMONG DESTINIES AS THE DETERMINANT OF SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN LIFE: A FURTHER REFLECTION ON YORUBA TRADITIONAL THOUGHT", "date": "2022", "keywords": "character; destiny; efforts; failure; good; individual; life; ori; success; yoruba", "summary": "In all these one good explanation is the concept of adayeba which takes into consideration how collective efforts or interaction of individual destiny can be responsible for failure or success. JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY-4TH-EDITION (AQUINO)-2022 Abstract The debate on human destiny and its relationship to freedom, responsibility, legality and morality is an ongoing discussion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2513", "words": "4173", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Glory Nse EDET; Blessing Ogechi EKEH", "title": "EPISTEMOLOGICAL RE-EXAMINATION OF THE SOURCES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE", "date": "2022", "keywords": "empiricism; knowledge; senses; sources", "summary": "In the modern period, with the revolution posed by Martin Luther, Descartes came up with a seniors level of revolution and refutation of the position of knowledge claims held by the church. He argued that, though justification, truth and belief are necessary conditions for knowledge claim, they are not sufficient conditions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2514", "words": "7454", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Ratzinger E. E. NWOBODO, Ph.D", "title": "THE ROLE OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY IN THE CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN SOCIETY", "date": "2022", "keywords": "african; changes; children; culture; families; family; marriage; modernity; practices; role; society; values", "summary": "African families are increasingly faced with the challenge and pressure emanating from the competition prevailing between traditional and modern family values. It is marked by the reorientation of family values from extended families to smaller family sizes (Nuclear).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2515", "words": "7996", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Chinyere T. ORJIAKOR, Ph.D", "title": "RESISTANCE AND DEFLECTION TO THE CONTEMPT OF OTHERS: TONI MORRISON'S THE BLUEST EYES", "date": "2022", "keywords": "african; american; beauty; black; eyes; girl; morrison; pauline; pecola; toni; white; women", "summary": "If the Black Arts Movement then failed black women by not taking their gender into their agenda, the feminist movements of the period failed them by not taking race into theirs. No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2516", "words": "4089", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Gladys Oluwatosin OLUDARE", "title": "AN EXAMINATION OF THE PRACTICE OF MOTHERHOOD AND SURROGACY IN YORUBA CULTURE", "date": "2022", "keywords": "child; gestational; motherhood; pregnancy; surrogacy; surrogate; woman", "summary": "The first, which occurred in the 1950s, was the introduction of Oral conception; the second was the introduction of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) in 1978 and finally surrogacy motherhood was introduced in the 1980s. There are two main types of surrogacy, gestational surrogacy and traditional surrogacy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-2517", "words": "5619", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Francis TETE", "title": "AN ECOCENTRIC PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL OF UNEP'S ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF OGONILAND", "date": "2022", "keywords": "assessment; community; ecocentrism; environmental; ethics; land; leopold; nature; philosophy; press; unep; university; value", "summary": "For progress in confronting the challenge of environmental protection this article concludes with a recommendation that ecological ethics be emphasized in environmental education to broaden the axiological framework of environmental ethics accessible in academia and to government and private policy makers. In view of progress in environmental protection we conclude with the recommendation that ecological ethics be emphasized in environmental education to broaden the axiological framework of environmental ethics accessible in academia and to government and private policy makers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3182", "words": "5862", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Nyuykongi John Paul (Ph.D)", "title": "The Vienna Circle and the Consolidation of Scientific Superiority over Metaphysics", "date": "2022", "keywords": "approach; circle; epistemic; epistemology; experience; knowledge; metaphysics; philosophy; science; vienna; vienna circle", "summary": "Their distinct epistemological status is emphasized by their zeal to 6 Nyuykongi The Vienna Circle and the Consolidation of Scientific ... demonstrate the supremacy of science thereby paving the way for a deeper appreciation of scientific knowledge as opposed to other forms of knowledge. Such an approach to knowledge pushed many thinkers to carry out a deeper appreciation of scientific knowledge as opposed to other forms of knowledge whose approach parallels that of the exact science.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3183", "words": "4197", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Victor C. Nweke; Martin F. Asiegbu", "title": "An Appraisal of Duhem-Quine's thesis on Crucial Experiments in Physics: An Essay in Philosophy of Science", "date": "2022", "keywords": "duhem; knowledge; philosophy; quine; science; theory; thesis", "summary": "In this connection, their major, rather unique contribution in philosophy of science is what is today known as Duhem \u2013 Quine thesis. However, this case is not applicable to the Duhem \u2013 Quine thesis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3184", "words": "6930", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Justin Nnaemeka ONYEUKAZIRI, (PhD)", "title": "\u201cEudaimonism\u201d in Classical West and East as Philosophy of Education Today", "date": "2022", "keywords": "education; end; good; human; life; person; philosophy; soul; \ufffd \ufffd", "summary": "Eudaimonistic Nature of Confucian Education The Confucian Analects (\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdZ), begins with the question of \u300c\ufffdW\ufffd\ufffd\u300d (studying and learning/practice). From, the loving experience among family members and kin, \u300c\ufffd\u587eH\u300d, as it could be found in the text \u300a\ufffd\ufffdZ\u300b and \u300a\u5de6\ufffd\ufffd\u300b, to\u300c\ufffd\ufffd\u4eba\u300d(\u201clove humanity or human love\u201d).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3185", "words": "6079", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "ETUK, Anthony R., Ph.D.", "title": "THE CHALLENGE OF ETHNOCENTRISM IN NIGERIAAND THE YIN-YANG PRINCIPLE OF COMPLEMENTARITY", "date": "2022", "keywords": "country; ethnocentrism; existence; groups; mindset; nature; nigeria; people; philosophy; politics; principle; yang; yin", "summary": "It is to be judged in our capability to identify with people of other ethnic groups and exhibit solidarity with them in their otherness. Falola and Matthew assert that \u201cthose parties that had control over the assemblies were able to distribute government resources among themselves, supporters, their regions and ethnic groups, and equally were able to deny these resources to their opponents\u201d (2008, p.165).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3186", "words": "4359", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Terfa Kahaga Anjov, PhD; Justine Peter Galleh ; Godwin Aondover Gbande", "title": "THE ROLE OF PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN NATIONAL COHESION: A REFLECTION ON GABRIEL MARCEL'S INTERSUBJECTIVITY", "date": "2022", "keywords": "hope; intersubjectivity; life; love; man; marcel; philosophy; relationship; thou; world", "summary": "Thus, Intersubjectivity in Marcel's thought is similar to the Zulu concept of Ubuntu and Tiv philosophy of Ya na Angbian The Society and Human Existence Africa generally is the most conflict-ridden region of the world and the only region in which the number of armed conflicts is on the increase (Dokubo and Oluwadare, 2011). The Role of Philosophy of Social Sciences in National Cohesion... Intersubjectivity in Marcel is the relation between two subjects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3187", "words": "5982", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "ODEY, JETTY JOE I. ; ANTHONY C. AREJI, Ph.D ; EZE, CHIMA FIDELIS ; ADEJOH, FLORENCE EKE", "title": "THOMAS POGGE'S NOTION OF GLOBAL JUSTICE REASSESSED", "date": "2022", "keywords": "citizens; countries; global; order; pogge; poor; poverty; world", "summary": "If it is really the major cause of global poverty what can be said of other poor countries that made it out of the same level of poverty with other countries under the same global institutional order? Accordingly, it is Reitberger's (2008) view that it is a flaw in Pogge's analysis that when it counts out the possible causes for global poverty, it only offers two options: domestic features and the effects of the global institutional system.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3189", "words": "5268", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Fabidun Francis Kayode; Bade-Afuye Toyin Beatrice", "title": "CULTURAL INTERACTION AND YOR\u00d9B\u00c1 TRADITIONAL EPISTEME", "date": "2022", "keywords": "culture; episteme; ifa; interaction; knowledge; life; people; religion; society; way; yoruba; yor\u00f9b\u00e1", "summary": "They also signify numerous themes, events, occasions, and places in Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 culture and history, such as mythic and historical characters, migration stories, and biographies of cultural heroes, ancestors, animals, and such natural phenomena as trees, groves, and rivers. The verses constitute the Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 encyclopedia of knowledge through the interpretation of these texts, and scholars are now examining many deep- seated values and concerns in Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 culture and society (Wande, 1976).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3190", "words": "6978", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Evaristus Ifeanacho, (PhD)", "title": "From ?kpa ego to ego mbute: investigating into the intergenerational crisis of illicit financial quest among the Igbo youth", "date": "2022", "keywords": "children; education; ego; igbo; kpa; life; mbute; money; nigeria; parents; people; wealth; work; yahoo", "summary": "A society that suffers persistent demographic shortage of young people gradually goes into extinction. Consequently, that calls for unstoppable effort in the proper and integral education of young people in order to guarantee the tomorrow of the society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3191", "words": "5355", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Dr. Dinebari David Vareba; Dr. Charles Barivule Berebon", "title": "Ecofeminism Reconceives Feminism in Potential Ecological Feminism ", "date": "2022", "keywords": "domination; ecofeminism; environmental; ethic; feminist; human; logic; nature; women", "summary": "According to a report of Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD), the Adrift Fortunes: Testimonies of Women in Oil Polluted Communities of the Niger Delta, women worldwide typically hold less monetary wealth and rely on the natural environment more, they are more likely to be displaced by climate change and have to travel farther for resources, like water, as dry seasons extend. Ecofeminism, therefore, as a way of repairing social and ecological injustice, calls on women to work towards creating a healthy environment and ending the destruction of lands that most women, especially rural women rely on to provide for their families (Vareba et al, 2019, p. 18).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3192", "words": "4818", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Rev. Fr. John Justice Nwankwo", "title": "ACHIEVING AUTHENTIC POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA: A KWAME NKRUMAH'S PHILOSOPHICALAPPROACH.", "date": "2022", "keywords": "africa; colonialism; countries; development; imperialism; nkrumah; philosophy; united; unity", "summary": "This was what Kwame Nkrumah understood very well and advocated for as a tool for African political development. Prior to African political freedom from colonialism and imperialism, the voice of Nkrumah resounded the shores of Africa; from the West to the East and from South to the North.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3193", "words": "5622", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "EMMANUEL UGBEDEOJO AMEH, PhD", "title": "IMPACTS OF INSURGENCY ON NIGERIA'S DEMOCRACY", "date": "2022", "keywords": "boko; country; democracy; development; government; haram; insurgency; journal; nigeria; people; properties; state; system", "summary": "Muzan (2014) opined that the insurgency in northern Nigeria appears to be an outlier among all these security issues and has been gaining power, sophistication, and most significantly, has become highly frightening and tough to combat. For instance, Nwanegbo and Odigbo (2013) stated that \u201cbetween July 27, 2009 and February 17, 2012, Boko Haram has launched fifty (53) attacks in which 1,157 people were killed and hundreds of people injured in northern Nigeria.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3194", "words": "5351", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "INYAMIGIM, Austin Ntol; John Paul ENEMUO, Ph.D.", "title": "THE PROBLEM OF ONE AND MANY: ITS RELATIONSHIP TO AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY.", "date": "2022", "keywords": "african; appearance; change; man; philosophy; problem; reality; things; world", "summary": "Perhaps by separate or independent existence, Plato meant to show us how there could be many individual things that all have one and the same universal or nature or essence while still being individual. The very fact of existence seen in birth; the coming into life and death- passing away from life informed questions not only about personal destiny but longer questions about how persons and things come into existence can be at different times and pass out of existence only to be followed by other things or persons.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3195", "words": "5104", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "OKPANACHI, Elijah Ojochonu", "title": "TERRORISM IN NIGERIAAND THE QUESTION OF RELIGION", "date": "2022", "keywords": "acts; attacks; boko; government; groups; haram; nigeria; page; people; religion; state; terrorism", "summary": "Huffman further argued that \u201cthose involved in religious terrorism see violence as an act of sacrament or divine duty carried out in direct response to some theological requests or expectations\u201d (43). According to Omomia, the current spate of religious terrorism in Nigeria is concealed by the perpetrators as a desire to \u201cfight for God\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3196", "words": "7028", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Stephen Azubuike Oguji, PhD", "title": "A PHILOSOPHICAL INTERROGATION OF THE RATIONALITY OF RELIGIOUS PRAYERS", "date": "2022", "keywords": "attributes; change; divine; essence; god; good; nature; petitionary; prayer; way; world", "summary": "Keywords: Philosophical, Interrogation, Rationality, Religious prayers Introduction The Concept of Prayer One common feature in most religions, especially the Abrahamic religions \u2013 Judaism, Christianity and Islam is the phenomenon of prayer or supplication. The word prayer can also be used in a non-religious way like in begging for A PHILOSOPHICAL INTERROGATION OF THE RATIONALITY OF RELIGIOUS PRAYERS Stephen Azubuike Oguji, PhD Department of Philosophy Imo State University, Owerri 139 something.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3197", "words": "5058", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Ikeagwuchi Ikechukwu UKWUOMA; Anayochukwu Kingsley UGWU", "title": "COVID-19 VACCINES, BOOSTERS AND DOSES AND THE QUESTION OF ADDICTION", "date": "2022", "keywords": "addiction; boosters; covid-19; disease; doses; effects; taking; vaccinated; vaccines", "summary": "However, there are reported cases of side effects to COVID-19 vaccines which the WHO reports have mostly been mild to moderate and short-lasting though. So, while the globe seeks immediate ways to manage and respond to the spread of COVID-19, there is also urgent need to consider the tendency of these vaccines and doses driving the vaccinated into addiction because only time will tell whether COVID-19 vaccines require periodic boosting.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3198", "words": "5440", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Omotayo, O. A.; Fasoro, J.O.", "title": "MORAL ISSUES IN GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN YORUBA CULTURE", "date": "2022", "keywords": "children; female; gender; human; male; practices; society; widowhood; women; yoruba", "summary": "The cultural practices among the Yoruba people that are the focus of this paper relates to gender discrimination which manifests in female genital mutilation, widowhood rites and preference for male children. Keywords: Morality, Gender discrimination, Widowhood rites, Female genital mutilation, Preference for male children.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3199", "words": "4503", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "AGAMA, Christian Sunday, (PhD); OBIAGWU, Victor Obinna, (PhD)", "title": "PHILOSOPHY, LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SOCIETY IN NIGERIA ", "date": "2022", "keywords": "digital; information; information society; knowledge; librarianship; libraries; library; nigeria; philosophy; society", "summary": "But all that could be said is that developed countries naturally in a gradual process became information societies before the developing countries proceed to enter the state of information society. To some, information society has been in existence as at th th late 19 century, and of recent some suggest the late 18 century, whereas some are concerned about the vitality of the concept whether information and knowledge have been playing an important role in history or not.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3200", "words": "5795", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Osawaru, Osamede Christopher", "title": "BEAUTY AND COMMUNITY LIVING: AN INSIGHT INTO THE ONTOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF EMOTAN SCULPTED ARTFORM", "date": "2022", "keywords": "aesthetics; african; art; beauty; benin; character; emotan; oba; ose; people; person; philosophy", "summary": "The saying that states that \u201cuyinmwen o gho ose\u201d meaning 'character is beauty' is usually demonstrated in Benin art forms such as in proverbs, music, poems, films, storytelling and oratory, all these are didactic in character as they represent beauty in their own forms. The beauty of Benin Sculpted art works can convey various feelings and messages to the casual observer.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3201", "words": "7436", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Mbachu A. Austin, (PhD)", "title": "GOOD GOVERNANCE, PHILOSOPHY AND LEADERSHIP: A PROSPECTIVE TO AFRICAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT", "date": "2022", "keywords": "african; development; good; governance; human; leadership; life; orientation; people; philosophers; philosophy; poverty; society; violence", "summary": "Philosophy motivates for social development social development requires motivation especially with reference to re-orientation. Philosophy underscores social development philosophy underscores the improvement of life for the people of any given society, the development and advancement of the society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-3202", "words": "3372", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Orimsan Agboifo PhD; Augusta Ainerhonmiton", "title": "MONOLOGUE AND DIALOGUE AS A SUSTAINABLE INSTRUMENT FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING IN NIGERIA SCHOOLS", "date": "2022", "keywords": "curriculum; dialog; education; learning; monolog; student; teacher", "summary": "Monolog and Dialog can sustain education if applied well because they will help build interpersonal relationships between teacher and student and between students to a student. It has made many school teachers lack what to do and how to do it before and after training.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4231", "words": "6608", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Anthony Raphael Etuk, Ph.D.; Emmanuel Akaninyene Okon, PhD; Inwang, Solomon Christopher", "title": "VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE GETTIER CHALLENGE", "date": "2023", "keywords": "belief; epistemology; gettier; intellectual; knowledge; sosa; truth; virtue; virtue epistemology", "summary": "Virtue epistemology insists that the problem of guaranteeing valid knowledge \u201ccan be solved by reference to the possession and application of intellectual virtue\u201d (Ozumba 2015: 172). In simple terms, for virtue epistemology, \u201ca belief is justified, just in case it is has its source in intellectual virtue (Sosa 1991: 189).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4232", "words": "6706", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu, PhD; Mike Boni Bazza, PhD", "title": "RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE AND CO-EXISTENCE IN NIGERIA", "date": "2023", "keywords": "christians; existence; journal; kanu; muslims; nigeria; peace; people; press; religion; state; sulaiman; university; violence", "summary": "Keywords: Religious Violence, Peaceful Co-existence, Remedial Solutions, Nigerian Nation Introduction Looking at religious violence and its implications for peaceful co-existence in Nigeria, this discourse begins by investigating the causes and implications of religious violence for a peaceful co-existence among the adherents of different religious beliefs in Nigeria. Causes of Religious Violence in Nigeria Having attempted to clarify some conceptual issues on the subject of this research paper, the following discussion will now focus on the causes of religious violence in Nigeria.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4233", "words": "4608", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Marcellinus Chigozie Obi", "title": "A PHILOSOPHICAL RECONSIDERATION OF NIETZSCHEAN WILL-TO-POWER AS WILL-TO-WIN", "date": "2023", "keywords": "beings; desire; drive; nietzsche; power; win", "summary": "For instance, in The Will to Power, he says that \u201cLife is will to power\u201d and that \u201cthe only reality is the will to grow stronger of every center of force \u2013 not self-preservation, but the will to appropriate, dominate, increase, grow stronger\u201d (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1967: 367; see also 35-39, 355-356). 27 Nietzschean Will-To-Power In his books and those of his commentators, the will-to-power is expressed in the following terms: the dominating will, an insatiable desire to manifest power, willing to be stronger, the will to outdo, excel and overpower one another, etc. From the foregoing, it can be said that the will-to-power, for Nietzsche, means the will to conquer or to overpower.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4234", "words": "5055", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Ejinike Emmanuel Umeh; Ifechi J. Ndianefo, PhD", "title": "THOMAS HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR NIGERIA STATE", "date": "2023", "keywords": "citizens; hobbes; leviathan; leviathan state; nature; nigeria state; power; security; state", "summary": "Nigeria state is unfortunately ever under the threats of centrifugal forces of ethnicism, fear of religious and cultural domination, which once precipitate a civil war (1960 \u2013 1970). Hence, Nigeria state could borrow a leaf from Hobbes' Leviathan to make for a strong state which could bolster Nigeria statecraft, legitimacy of the government and the confidence of the Nigeria citizens in the Nigeria project.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4235", "words": "5175", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Aloysius Uchechukwu ONAH", "title": "THE PHILOSOPHER AND REVOLUTIONARY ATTEMPTS IN NIGERIA", "date": "2023", "keywords": "attempts; change; human; lamb; new; nigeria; order; people; philosopher; political; revolution; society", "summary": "Although it is possible to consider revolution with reference to changes in a country (French revolution, Chinese revolution), regions (the Arab spring, the dissolution-revolution of the Soviet empire), world (in 1848 and 1968 = Read Minkkinen, 2009, 17), but one could also think of it in terms of progress in science and technology such as: industrial revolution, digital revolution, technological revolution (United Nations, 2016), or even in terms of institutional change Marxist revolution (Lamb, 109), the Aristocratic Revolution of the City-States among the early Greeks, Latins and Romans (Diop, 1987, 24), demographic revolution (Easterlin, 2019, 3) and political revolution. Abstract In an organized society, human beings have revolted against inhuman conditions of living or systems that governed them through structured groups called syndicates, movements, oppositions and revolutions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4236", "words": "4201", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Peter Iorhom Akunoko PhD", "title": "THE ALTRUISTIC QUESTION AND ALFRED SCHULTZ'S DEFINITION OF HUMAN ACTION", "date": "2023", "keywords": "action; altruism; altruistic; comte; rand; schutz; self", "summary": "The motivation that underlies altruistic action seems to be at variance with Alfred Schutz's understanding of human action. This moderate understanding of altruistic action can be accommodated in Alfred Schutz's definition of human action.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4237", "words": "6288", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Innocent I. Enweh", "title": "WOMANHOOD AND PANDEMICS: THE AFRICAN CASE", "date": "2023", "keywords": "africa; covid-19; gender; health; impact; outcomes; pandemic; policy; resilience; roles; socio; womanhood; women", "summary": "Ideas expressed in this chapter are drawn, to a large extent, from review of published studies in the area of gender health in developed as well as developing worlds. In Ghana by 2009, the Ministry of Health had already developed \u201ca gender policy to direct its actions on handling gender related health concerns\u201d (National Gender Policy: 2015, 11).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4238", "words": "8568", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Omorovie Ikeke; Toma Brume", "title": "THE CHALLENGE OF CHRISTIAN FEMINISM IN URHOBOLAND", "date": "2023", "keywords": "bible; christian; culture; discrimination; education; feminism; gender; human; jesus; paper; rights; society; urhoboland; women", "summary": "Otite (2021) writes about Urhobo women thus: With their failure of lack of strong will to resist their subordinate status and 84 Aquino Journal of Philosophy, Vol 3 Issue 2, 2023 ISSN: 2786-9792 December role, women help to elect more men than women to the Senate, the House of Representatives, State Houses of Assembly, and even the Local Government Councils in Nigeria. Women could touch Jesus for healing; He was not too sacred to be touched by women and ate with them unlike the Rabbis of His day who accused Him of eating with a sinner.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4239", "words": "5175", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Nkereuwem Dominic Ekpo", "title": "CAN DESCARTES EPISTEMOLOGY JUSTIFIABLY ANSWER THE SKEPTICS' ARGUMENTS?", "date": "2023", "keywords": "arguments; cogito; descartes; dream; foundation; knowledge; philosophy; skepticism", "summary": "Descartes' Cogito and the Question of Certain Knowledge Here is an attempt to appraise Descartes philosophy in relation to the quest for indubitable foundation of knowledge. Ozumba (2001:42) defines it as \u201cany philosophical attitude which expresses doubt as to the possibility of certain knowledge\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4240", "words": "4471", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Nnajiofo Osita; Unadike Chimezie", "title": "IMMANUEL KANT'S CONCEPT OF HUMAN DIGNITY: A PANECEA FOR POLICE BRUTALITY IN NIGERIA", "date": "2023", "keywords": "beings; brutality; dignity; end; force; human; kant; nigerian; police", "summary": "It is on the strength of the above that this work employs the method of analysis to investigate the origin, the causes and effects of police brutality in Nigeria. A PANECEA FOR POLICE BRUTALITY IN NIGERIA Nnajiofo Osita Department of Philosophy, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4241", "words": "171", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "-92", "author": "Rev. Davou M. Dantoro, PhD.", "title": "THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION OF MARK 14:1-11 ON THE COMMITMENT OF MEN AND WOMEN IN GOD'S SERVICE", "date": "2023", "keywords": "page", "summary": "AQUINO VOLUME3 ISSUE 2 DECEMBER 2023 THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION OF MARK 14:1-11 ON THE COMMITMENT OF MEN AND WOMEN IN GOD'S SERVICE Rev. Davou M. Dantoro, PhD. Gindiri Theological Seminary P. M. B. 01001, Gindiri, Plateau State, Nigeria davoum.dantoro@gmail.com 109 110 Aquino Journal of Philosophy, Vol 3 Issue 2, 2023 ISSN: 2786-9792 December 111 Theological Reflection Of Mark 14:1-11 On The Commitment - Rev. Davou M. Dantoro 112 Aquino Journal of Philosophy, Vol 3 Issue 2, 2023 ISSN: 2786-9792 December 113 Theological Reflection Of Mark 14:1-11 On The Commitment - Rev. Davou M. Dantoro 114 Aquino Journal of Philosophy, Vol 3 Issue 2, 2023 ISSN: 2786-9792 December 115 Theological Reflection Of Mark 14:1-11 On The Commitment - Rev. Davou M. Dantoro 116 Aquino Journal of Philosophy, Vol 3 Issue 2, 2023 ISSN: 2786-9792 December 117 Theological Reflection Of Mark 14:1-11 On The Commitment - Rev. Davou M. Dantoro Page 117 Page 118 Page 119 Page 120 Page 121 Page 122 Page 123 Page 124 Page 125", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4242", "words": "5820", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "C. N. Ogugua; P. C. Okoli, PhD", "title": "APPLICATION OF STATE-CENTRIC SECURITY APPROACH TO THE SECURITY CHALLENGES IN THE SOUTHEAST", "date": "2023", "keywords": "government; herdsmen; nigeria; people; rights; security; southeast; sovereignty; state; theory; zone", "summary": "In this sense international stability relied on the premise that if state security is maintained, then the security of citizens will necessarily follow (Bajpai, 2000, p. 29). Farming communities are still regularly attacked by killers' herdsmen; incidences of kidnapping are still rampant, Security agents are still attacked and killed by unknown gunmen and state security agents are still killing, harassing, abducting and committing arsons in the Zone.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4243", "words": "3960", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Ikechukwu Monday Osebor, PhD", "title": "IS PET-KEEPING A VIOLATION OF ANIMAL RIGHTS? A CONSEQUENTIALIST STANDPOINT", "date": "2023", "keywords": "animals; ethics; keeping; monday; pet; pets; philosophy; rights; telos; utilitarianism", "summary": "The question is: does pet keeping amount to a violation of animal rights? AQUINO VOLUME3 ISSUE 2 DECEMBER 2023 Abstract Humans have coexisted with animals for thousands of years, but the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries are when the word pet was first coined to mean domesticated animal.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4244", "words": "3421", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Jude Chibuzo Udenkwo, PhD.", "title": "GLOBALIZATION AND AFRICAN COMMON NORMS: A PHILOSOPHICAL INTROSPECTION", "date": "2023", "keywords": "africa; globalization; language; norms; page; societies; trade; women; world", "summary": "'So far as Africa is concerned, norms have developed around salient areas of interrelationship as African societies intermingled, synthetized, fractured, warred, and reconciled, even during the times when most parts of the world was plunged in darkness\u2026' (Rodney, 1972). What one could call 'the primordial interconnectivity and interrelationship within African societies and between African and non-African societies' are proof that inter-group communications have long been occurring in Africa.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4245", "words": "6863", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Suleiman Mohammed Evuti", "title": "AN APPRAISAL OF THE IMPACT OF INSURGENCY ON THE CHANGING PATTERN OF NIGERIA FOREIGN POLICY", "date": "2023", "keywords": "africa; arms; boko; conflict; country; government; group; haram; insurgency; international; military; nigeria; policy; state; terrorism", "summary": "The emergence of terrorism in Nigeria owing to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Northern Nigeria has greatly undermined the country's foreign policy drive and as such, their activities in Nigeria have called to question bases for Nigerian foreign policy relation particularly with the affected neighboring countries This research therefore aim to appraised critically the impact of the activities of Islamic/religious fundamentalism on Nigeria foreign policy Relation. A closer look at the political history and external relations of Nigeria would only make one realize that Nigeria is passing through a phase that seems the most challenging for the country's foreign policy experts, observers and average Nigerians since the main focus of all architects of foreign policy is to distinctly marked off in clear terms country's national interest which serves as a guide in their relations with other nations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4342", "words": "5417", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Ike Odimegwu; Christopher Ogugua", "title": "WHAT DO WE DO WITH AFRICAN COMMUNALISM?", "date": "2024", "keywords": "african; communalism; community; people; philosophy; scholars; societies; society", "summary": "Keywords: Communalism, African communalism, African philosophy, foundations of philosophy, development. Hence, this paper undertakes conceptual dialogue with the various participants in the symposium on African communalism in order to unpack the confusion of reference and ascertain what foundation and service communalism as an African philosophy can constitute for and render to the present and future of African development.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4343", "words": "5267", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Prof. Chiedozie Okoro; Sirajudeen Owosho, Ph.D.", "title": "AN ANALYSIS OF THE KANTIAN FOUNDATION OF HUSSERLIAN TRANSCENDENTAL PHENOMENOLOGY", "date": "2024", "keywords": "husserl; kant; knowledge; phenomenology; philosophy; transcendental; world", "summary": "Although, it is possible to interpret Kantian \u201cthings in themselves\u201d in a way compatible with Husserl transcendental philosophy, there is still the strong suggestion that they have a causal role in Kant\u2019s epistemology, which Husserl thinks is obscured. With regards to transcendental phenomenology, this paper aims to analyse Kant and Husserl\u2019s similarities and differences, in terms of methodologies and interpretations, with a view to showing that Kant provided the epistemological manure for the fruitful germination of Husserl\u2019s transcendental phenomenology.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4344", "words": "5384", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "KPODEE, Neemene ThankGod PhD; PETERS, Godswill Osoruchi", "title": "THE ISSUE AND QUESTION OF ETHNIC POLITICS AND RELIGIOUS DICHOTOMY AS RESPONSIBLE FOR NIGERIAN CURRENT DEMOCRATIC QUAGMIRES", "date": "2024", "keywords": "country; democracy; democratic; development; dichotomy; ethnicity; issue; nigeria; politics; religion; state", "summary": "mailto:kpodeethankgod@gamil.com Aquino Journal of Philosophy, Vol 4 Issue 1, January 2024 ISSN: 2786-9792 25 Introduction The question of ethnic politics and religious dichotomy, amongst others, are one of the several phenomena hindering the desired to having democratic success in Nigeria. The point to note here is that the issue of ethnic politics in Nigeria and the practice of governance in accordance to religious divides have been an age long practice in the Nigerian politics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4345", "words": "6597", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Ebo, Henry Obinze, PhD; Okewu, Michael Peter", "title": "JEAN PAUL SARTRE\u2019S ABSOLUTE FREEDOM AND ITS ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS", "date": "2024", "keywords": "euthanasia; existence; freedom; god; life; man; paul; sartre; suicide", "summary": "Human freedom is seen by Sartre in terms of negation, nihilation and nothingness. 40 Absolutism of Freedom in Sartre\u2019s Existentialism Sartre is usually misunderstood as having an exaggerated view of human freedom, no doubt because of the claims in the \u201cExistentialism and Humanism\u201d lecture that there is no determinism; we are free, we are freedom, we are condemned to be free.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4346", "words": "4906", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "TITUS ALIYU, Ph.D.", "title": "CHRISTIANITY AND MARXISM: THE CHURCH\u2019S VIEW", "date": "2024", "keywords": "christianity; church; god; humanism; life; man; marxism; religion; world", "summary": "Abstract One of the ideological confusion of our time is the claim that Christianity and Marxism should have come to be regarded as mutually compatible, not only by some members of left-wing organizations and movements, but also within certain sectors of the Church itself. Indeed, some enthusiasts go so far as to say that Christianity and Marxism complement each other, and at the extreme end of the scale, there are a number of pundits who posited that they are fundamentally identical.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4347", "words": "8151", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Ratzinger E. E. Nwobodo, PhD", "title": "KARL POPPER\u2019S PRINCIPLE OF VERISIMILITUDE: A PANACEA TO ISLAMIC FANATICISM IN NIGERIA", "date": "2024", "keywords": "faith; fanaticism; islamic; journal; karl; knowledge; nigeria; popper; religion; truth; verisimilitude", "summary": "However, religious fanaticism is most pronounced within the Islamic sect in Nigeria. This goes to show that religious fanaticism is a thing of the mind.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4348", "words": "5582", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Florence Eke Adejoh; Anthony Chukwudi Areji, Ph.D.; Jetty Joe Odey", "title": "AN APPRAISAL OF KWASI WIREDU\u2019S CONCEPTUAL DECOLONIZATION", "date": "2024", "keywords": "african; curriculum; decolonization; injustice; language; philosophy; thought; universities; wiredu", "summary": "The study establishes that the negative programme of Wiredu\u2019s conceptual decolonization which enjoins African scholars to think effectively using African languages as proposed by him is almost impossible to apply. His positive programme has to do with the judicious exploitation of the enormous \u201cresources\u201d of African conceptual frameworks in philosophical exercises or reflections.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4349", "words": "8604", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Agu, Anthony Maria; Rev. Fr. Prof. Bonachristus Umeogu", "title": "COSMOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF RELIGION AND SCIENCE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bang; big; christian; cosmology; creation; god; infinite; matter; religion; science; theory; universe; world", "summary": "This type of universe was proposed by Friedmann and Lemaitre in 1920s but the modern version was developed by George Gamow and his colleagues in 1940s (The New Encyclopedia Britannica). Lemaitre\u2019s expanding universe evolved asymptotically from a closed Einstein\u2019s universe and so did not have a definite origin in time.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4350", "words": "7455", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Emenike PeterSixtus; Anthony Izuchukwu Ezeobele", "title": "POLITICAL AWARENESS AND PARTICIPATION IN DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS: A BEDROCK FOR SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY?", "date": "2024", "keywords": "awareness; community; development; individual; intervention; journal; knowledge; participation; people; politics; social; society; understanding", "summary": "Political awareness leads to readiness for political participation. Keywords: Political Awareness, Political Participation, Rendering Technical, Social Sustainability, Inclusion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4351", "words": "7594", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Ogochukwu Agatha Okpokwasili, PhD; Ignatuis Nnaemeka Onwuatuegwu, PhD", "title": "GENDER DYNAMICS IN THE IGBO APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM: EXPLORING WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN SOUTH EAST NIGERIA", "date": "2024", "keywords": "apprenticeship; apprenticeship system; business; dynamics; entrepreneurship; gender; igbo; knowledge; nigeria; opportunities; people; skills; system; trade; women", "summary": "Women apprenticeship in recent times has been converted to \u201cImu Olu aka\u201d. Gender Dynamics in the Igbo Apprenticeship System: Exploring Women's \u2026 - O.A. Okpokwasili, PhD & I.N. Onwuatuegwu, PhD mailto:in.onwuatuegwu@unizik.edu.ng Aquino Journal of Philosophy, Vol 4 Issue 1, January 2024 ISSN: 2786-9792 123 Keywords: Igbo apprenticeship system, gender dynamics, women's participation, entrepreneurship, economic empowerment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4352", "words": "4978", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "AWINGS YUSUF SULE", "title": "IMPACT OF CHURCH PERSECUTION IN NORTHERN PART OF NIGERIA", "date": "2024", "keywords": "boko; christians; church; government; haram; impact; nigeria; northern; northern nigeria; people; persecution; state", "summary": "Thus this paper examines Christians persecution in Northern Nigeria context (Lwati vol.9, NO1, 2012). It has resulted to leaving many as widows, widowers, childless, orphans, extinction and set back to the growth of Christianity in Northern Nigeria.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4353", "words": "5082", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "YUSUF J. LUXMAN, Ph.D.", "title": "NATIONAL GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: TOWARDS A NATIONAL RESPONSE TO POLITICAL RIVALRY IN THE CONTEXT OF NIGERIA", "date": "2024", "keywords": "development; goals; government; interest; national; nigeria; objectives; party; rivalry; system", "summary": "Other supporting discourses include an overview of the Nigerian context, Nigerian political system, national policies on national aspirations, political parties in Nigeria, political rivalry in Nigeria, scourge of political rivalry in Nigeria and national response to political rivalry in Nigeria. In contemporary Nigeria, political party rivalry was the order of the day.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4354", "words": "9451", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Bitrus Gando Isaac", "title": "THE FOLLY OF WORTHLESS ALLIANCE OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD IN ISAIAH 30:1-17 AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CHRISTIANS TODAY", "date": "2024", "keywords": "30:1; alliance; biblesoft; egypt; god; help; isaiah; israel; judah; lord; people; qal; translated; trust; verb; verse; word", "summary": "Abstract This paper employs the Grammatical-Historical approach to examine the folly of forming futile alliances of the people of God (Israel), as described in the prophetic book of Isaiah 30:1-17. Keywords: Folly, Worthless Alliance, People of God, Isaiah.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4355", "words": "5124", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "DANIEL JAMES TALI, Ph.D.", "title": "DRUGS COMMONLY ABUSED AROUND THE WORLD", "date": "2024", "keywords": "abuse; brecher; brunn; chinedu; countries; drug; drug abuse; ebie; matowo; ongwae; world", "summary": "The goal of this study is to find out the meaning of drug abuse, to investigate the theories of drug abuse and to examine the types of drugs that are commonly abused around the world. The study recommends that governments of different countries should have a way of checking to detect the abuse of drugs so as to prevent it, viable laws that would help to check mate the menace of drug abuse should be established and governments of different countries should punish culprits of drug abuse so as to deter them and discourage others from getting involved, among others.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-4356", "words": "3501", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Hyginus Chibuike EZEBUILO; Asso. Prof Chinyere T. OJIAKOR", "title": "THE HUMEAN VIEW ON MIRACLE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS", "date": "2024", "keywords": "hume; laws; miracle; nature; testimony; view", "summary": "Notably, the violations of truth are more common in the testimony concerning religious miracles than any other matter of fact. In response to the above, epistemological critics of miracle conceive the term as the violation of natural laws.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5028", "words": "6701", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "ONYIAH, Stephen Chukwuemeka; NDUBISI, Ejikemeuwa J. O.; KANU, Ikechukwu Anthony", "title": "NAVIGATING THE ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THROUGH CAROL GILIGHAN'S ETHICS OF CARE", "date": "2024", "keywords": "artificial; care; carol; development; ethics; gilligan; human; implications; intelligence; morality; women", "summary": "Just as drug companies undergo rigorous checks before releasing products, AI developments should be strictly regulated to ensure their safe interaction with society and prevent them from getting out of human control (Noah, 2023). In the context of AI development, this perspective underscores the significance of human-centered design principles that prioritize the well-being and agency of individuals affected by AI systems.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5029", "words": "8840", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "John Tor Tsuwa; Terver Akase", "title": "INTERROGATING THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON AFRICAN POLITICS", "date": "2024", "keywords": "access; africa; democracy; election; government; impact; information; internet; journal; media; nigeria; page; people; platforms; politics; president; society; twitter; use", "summary": "Keywords: Africa, social media, Politics, Internet, Democracy, Elections Introduction In recent years, the proliferation of social media platforms has revolutionized the way information is disseminated, opinions are formed, and political discourse is conducted worldwide. JUNE 2024.cdr Abstract This paper examines the impact of social media on African politics focusing on how these platforms have influenced political discourse, citizen engagement, and government responsibility and accountability.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5030", "words": "5771", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "ONAH, Aloysius Uchechukwu", "title": "ARCHITECTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT: AFRICAN CONSIDERATION OF SPATIAL AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT", "date": "2024", "keywords": "architecture; beings; building; construction; environment; house; human; igbo; nature; people; plan; use", "summary": "In any case, traditional African architecture envisaged communal life in the same way modern architecture is planning for a more cohesive society where provisions are made for the establishment of different sectors that will cater to the multiple needs of human beings. To achieve its purpose, authorities have provided development plans and building plans.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5031", "words": "6153", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Elijah Okon John, Prof.; Ekpema Udofia Nkanang, Ph.D", "title": "DEMOCRACY AND AFRICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS", "date": "2024", "keywords": "africa; citizens; democracy; development; freedom; government; language; people; politics; power; problems; society; system", "summary": "The work also establishes that African democracy ought to be modelled and influenced by African ideology of communalism, which entails egalitarianism. The nature of African democracy reflects the nature of African system and thought.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5032", "words": "4171", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "20", "author": "Ukegbu, Ezionyinye Ebere, PhD; Nwala, KenethTochukwu, PhD", "title": "THE ROLE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA, 1999 \u2013 2020", "date": "2024", "keywords": "data; decision; ict; information; management; monitoring; nigeria; systems; technology; water", "summary": "However, several challenges need to be addressed to fully harness the potential of ICT in environmental management in Nigeria such as technological challenges, infrastructure and connectivity issues, capacity building, and awareness require attention among others. The paper concludes by emphasizing the importance of ICT in environmental management in Nigeria and its future prospects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5033", "words": "8515", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Ahana Chukwuebuka E.", "title": "MORAL REALISM AND SAME SEX MARRIAGE DEBATE", "date": "2024", "keywords": "argument; children; couples; law; man; marriage; procreation; rights; sex; sex couples; sex marriage; union", "summary": "The Morality of Same Sex Marriage: A Moral Realist Position In this section effort is made to examine the stance of proponents of same sex marriage from the ethical standpoint of moral realism. This obnoxious practice is called same sex marriage.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5034", "words": "6066", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Nicholas Onyemechi Alumona, PhD", "title": "ON THE HEAVY BURDEN OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA", "date": "2024", "keywords": "african; alumona; burden; countries; cultures; development; market; people; philosophy; values; world", "summary": "Key Words: African development, Africa's development, heavy burden, ethnocentrism, syncretism, globalism Introduction The need to develop Africa has continued to generate ideas from scholars and policy makers alike. While the particularists who believe in African development see nothing wrong with an approach of development that is traditional to a people with certain peculiarities, the Universalists who are advocates of Africa's development support generality in addressing development problems confronting the entire human race, regardless of our different origins, cultures and orientations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5035", "words": "5865", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Mark Omorovie Ikeke, PhD", "title": "THE DUTY OF THE NIGERIAN STATE TO SAFEGUARD THE NIGERIAN ENVIRONMENT: AN ETHICAL PERSPECTIVE", "date": "2024", "keywords": "constitution; duty; environment; government; human; nigeria; people; rights; state", "summary": "In other countries of the world, there is an explicit provision for environmental rights and the government must safeguard it. The ACHPR which has been domesticated in Nigeria can give an opening for the implementation of environmental rights in Nigeria, but there is still a conflict as the Supreme Court states that the C h a r t e r i s n o t s u p e r i o r t o N", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5036", "words": "5353", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Ishaya, Brunu (Ph.D Fellow, UNN); Rev. Ngele, Omaka Kalu, PhD", "title": "BOKO-HARAMIZATION OF POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA: EXAMINING THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISTS IN LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE", "date": "2024", "keywords": "boko; corruption; governance; government; haramization; institutions; leadership; national; nigeria; people; religion; state", "summary": "Religion, politics and power in northern Nigeria. However, despite these constitutional stipulations, a cursory peep into the Nigerian political scene reveals that Nigerian political leaders have not lived up to the expectations of the citizens and the task which the constitution bestows on them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5037", "words": "10465", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Prof. Elijah Okon John; Godwin Adahada", "title": "AN EXAMINATION OF LEVINAS' NOTION OF RESPONSIBILITY AND HUMAN SITUATION IN NIGERIA", "date": "2024", "keywords": "contemporary; ethical; ethics; government; human; levinas; nigeria; notion; page; people; philosophy; relationship; responsibility; right; self; situation; subject; work", "summary": "To unpack this, this essay proceeds as follows: Section 2 introduces Emmanuel Levinas; Section 3 exposes Levinas' notion of responsibility; Section 4 investigates the human situation in Nigeria; Section 5 Juxtaposes Levinas' notion of responsibility and human situation in Nigeria; Section 6 makes a case for Levinas' notion of responsibility as an advocacy for better human situation in Nigeria; Section 7 evaluates Levinas' notion of responsibility and section 8 concludes the contemporary Nigeria needs Levinas' notion of responsibility as a model for reorientation of thinking and acting to ensure better social, economic and political situation. AQUINNO VOLUME 4 ISSUE 2 JUNE 2024.cdr AN EXAMINATION OF LEVINAS' NOTION OF RESPONSIBILITY AND HUMAN SITUATION IN NIGERIA Prof. Elijah Okon John & Godwin Adahada Department of Philosophy, University of Uyo PMB 1017, Uyo Phone: 07032878732 Email: elijahjohn@uniuyo.edu.ng Abstract This paper examines Levinas' notion of responsibility and human situation in Nigeria.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5038", "words": "5385", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "AKANDE Michael Aina, Ph.D", "title": "THE USE OF FEAR IN ANIMAL RIGHTS DISCOURSE: AN ETHICAL PRAGMATIST APPROACH", "date": "2024", "keywords": "animals; cruelty; fear; human; life; love; philosophy; rights; strategy; use; yoruba", "summary": "The use of rational fear in discourse is known as 'Fearism'. This is a philosophical theory that pertains to the use of rational fear rather than brute fear to create caution or overcome obstacles in human affairs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5039", "words": "6389", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Chinedu Nwadike; Florence Orabueze; Stella Okoye-Ugwu", "title": "FLIPSIDE CRITICISM OF THE PSYCHO-SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF OLUNDE AND PILKINGS IN WOLE SOYINKA'S DEATH AND THE KING'S HORSEMAN", "date": "2024", "keywords": "characters; criticism; death; horseman; king; olunde; pilkings; research; society; soyinka; theory", "summary": "This is because flipside literary theory only recently emerged as another tool of literary criticism. (c) Is the disposition of the flipside protagonist towards other flipside characters favourable and empowering, favourable and disempowering, unfavourable and empowering or unfavourable and disempowering?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5040", "words": "4589", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Fasiku, Gbenga Cornelius, PhD; Okwute, Dorcas", "title": "NAVIGATING THE COMPLEXITIES OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND THE SECURITY NEEDS OF THE STATE", "date": "2024", "keywords": "freedom; government; individual; liberty; press; rights; security; state; university", "summary": "This is why practical application often presents challenges, as the effectiveness of state security measures, the potential for abuses of power, and the impact on individual liberties may not align neatly with abstract moral ideals of individual liberty. Fundamental to this ethical discourse on individual liberty and state security need is the principle of human dignity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5041", "words": "4262", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Ikechukwu Monday OSEBOR, Ph.D.; Rev. Fr. Dr. J.F Mordi", "title": "SYNTHETIC TRANSLATIONS PREVENTING INDETERMINACY OF MEANING AND INSCRUTABILITY OF REFERENCE IN LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS", "date": "2024", "keywords": "language; language translation; meaning; philosophy; relations; source; synthetic; target; text; translation; web", "summary": "Language translations serve as intermediaries between the source and the target language text. Language translation (LT) is the manual or electronic conversion of a source language text to exactly match the target language text using signs and symbols.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5042", "words": "6364", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Dr. James N. Nnoruga", "title": "THE CONCEPT OF DEATH IN THE CHANGING WORLD OF AFRICAN WORLDVIEW", "date": "2024", "keywords": "african; burial; ceremonies; dead; death; funeral; people; person; world", "summary": "Kinds of Death The notion of death in Africa can also be understood clearly from the way the Africans clarify deaths. The Notion of Death: African Perspective The African people like other people in other continents of the world, fear or dread the occurrence of death at any time, and the causes of death are normally searched for especially when the explanation is not visible to members of the family, even when it is visible the intension behind it, is sought by the living members of the family.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5043", "words": "3873", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Anas Elochukwu", "title": "NAPEP: A TRI-CAUSAL EXPLANATION OF WHY IT FAILED", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bank; country; development; eradication; napep; national; nigeria; poverty; programme; reduction; world", "summary": "Secondly, it involves embedment, whereby government station work teams in the rural areas to administer rural administration and monitor poverty reduction programmes. In contrast, many poverty reduction programmes in Nigeria are imposed upon the intended beneficiaries.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-5044", "words": "6079", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Victor Ogheneochuko Jeko., Ph.D; Odigie Ndidi Joseph", "title": "AN EVALUATION OF GLOBAL WARMING AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS", "date": "2024", "keywords": "ecologism; environment; environmentalism; ethics; graham; hoffman; human; nature; warming; world", "summary": "The findings of this paper are that international cooperation is fundamental in mitigating the challenges of global warming; nature is an integral part of human beings and sentient beings. In concurrence with Baradat's above theoretical position, Hoffman and Graham (2009, 363-364) further argued that \u201cwhereas environmentalists share a post-Enlightenment belief in the uniqueness of the human perspective on the world\u2014that is, they place human beings above, or outside, nature\u2014ecologists challenge that philosophical position, maintaining that human life only has value insofar as it is a 'knot' in the 'net' of life, a net which connects together not only non- human animals, but non-sentient entities, such as trees, rivers and mountains\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6114", "words": "6747", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Modestus Anyaegbu, PhD", "title": "JACQUES DERRIDAAND THE DECONSTRUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY IN SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA", "date": "2024", "keywords": "abiama; christianity; christians; chukwu; deconstruction; derrida; faith; god; jesus; new; nigeria; people; religion", "summary": "This teaching appeals and has appealed to thousands of young Christians who have followed and adhered to this new form of progressive Christianity. Proper Christianity is the Christianity that preaches Christ and him who is crucified.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6115", "words": "6660", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Idubamo Daniel Agbada", "title": "COMMUNITARIANISM IN ACHEBE'S ARROW OF GOD", "date": "2024", "keywords": "achebe; arrow; communitarianism; community; ezeulu; god; individual; people; society; umuaro", "summary": "Keywords: Arrow of GodCommunitarianism, individual, Achebe, community, INTRODUCTION \u201cCommunitarianism is a social philosophy that, in contrast to theories that emphasize the centrality of the individual, emphasizes the importance of society in articulating the good.\u201d Achebe expressed communitarian ideas in by showing the Arrow of God relationship between the individual and community as a good number of scholars have done; only that Achebe situates these ideas in Eastern Nigeria as a brilliant and entertaining work of literature.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6116", "words": "4555", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Laleye Solomon Akinyemi, Ph.D", "title": "ON THE COMPATIBILITY OF INTERNET FRAUD WITH MONEY RITUAL IN THE DOUBLE ACTS OF IMMORALITY IN CHACHERISM", "date": "2024", "keywords": "african; cybercrime; fraud; internet; money; murder; practices; ritual; wealth; yahoo", "summary": "AQUINNO VOLUME 4 ISSUE 3 DECEMBER 2024.cdr ON THE COMPATIBILITY OF INTERNET FRAUD WITH MONEY RITUAL IN THE DOUBLE ACTS OF IMMORALITY IN CHACHERISM Laleye Solomon Akinyemi, Ph.D Department of Philosophy AdekunleAjasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria laleyesolomon@gmail.com solomon.laleye@aaua.edu.ng ABSTRACT Contemporary human society faces numerous threats to peaceful coexistence, suggesting the vulnerability and possible extinction of the human species. More alarming is the rise of ritual murder as complement to internet fraud, which has heightened insecurity in modern-day Nigeria.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6117", "words": "3839", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Benjamin Chukwunonso Nwokocha; Nnatuanya, Emmanuel Chinedu", "title": "AFRICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE CHALLENGES OF EUROPEAN PERIODIZATION: SETTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT", "date": "2024", "keywords": "africa; continent; dike; european; historiography; history; past; periodization", "summary": "We shall look at the process of recreating African history and its precursors and look at the periodization of Africa's history and its shortcomings and make potent suggestions on the way forward. Writing African history in general has been challenging and mostly difficult, due to a lack of both comprehensive written records and holistic archaeological evidence that covers all the zones of Africa from past times.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6118", "words": "7987", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Barnabas Ekiegini Izegede", "title": "THE SOCIO-POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE IGBOS'S INDIFFERENTISM ST TH IN THE AUGUST 1 TO 10 2024 END BAD GOVERNANCE NATIONAL PROTEST: A COUNTER PROTEST, A POLITICAL REACTION OR MISTRUST FOR NATIONAL UNITY?", "date": "2024", "keywords": "biafra; country; eastern; federal; government; groups; igbo; indifferentism; national; nigeria; people; politics; region; socio; state; unity; war", "summary": "g. Deliberate Underuse of Seaports There is a well-considered perception that the seaports within the Igbo axis are deliberately underused when one considers the fact that Port Harcourt port was a bustling port prior to Nigeria independence, up until Nigeria Biafra civil war to (Information Service, 1956). Aduba (2017) argued in The Will newspaper, that Nigeria government deliberately imposed the \u00a320 flat rate policy without any circumspection.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6119", "words": "5726", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Celestine Edozie Anyaorah, Ph.; Solomon Eyesan, Ph.D", "title": "AUTONOMY'S DOMINION: RONALD DWORKIN'S ARGUMENTS ON ABORTION", "date": "2024", "keywords": "abortion; dworkin; foetus; god; human; law; life; right", "summary": "Instead, he suggests that these debates should be re-conceptualised to reflect a recognition that what propels them is an essentially religious disagreement about the intrinsic value of human life (Shiffrin, 2004, 195).With regard to abortion, John D. Inazu in his 2012 essay, \u201cThe Limits of Integrity,\u201d points out that Dworkin identifies three values at issue in the constitutional debate over abortion: (I) law as integrity; (II) the rights and interests of persons; and (III) the sacredness of human life. The last value that Dworkin regards in his interpretation of the problem of abortion is the sacredness of human life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6120", "words": "4330", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Justus Isaac Ph. D", "title": "MORALITY AND EDUCATION: THE PRECURSOR FOR SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION", "date": "2024", "keywords": "education; experience; good; morality; nigeria; people; reconstruction; society; values", "summary": "The act of educating people to acquire moral virtue in order to build or rebuild their lives and the society at large is known as moral education. It is an error to think that moral education is limited to the area of sexual relationship.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6121", "words": "5967", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Rev. Fr. John Justice Nwankwo, Ph.D", "title": "METAPHYSICAL DUALISM IN EBOH: A PHILOSOPHICAL EXPOS\u00c9", "date": "2024", "keywords": "death; dualism; eboh; human; life; living; philosophy; soul", "summary": "Human life on earth is life at the stage of continuous becoming until it reaches its perfect state of living as a pure soul. In its dynamic nature, human life looks forward to a higher level of existence called transcendental life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6122", "words": "5912", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Benedict Michael, PhD", "title": "THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF DISAGREEMENT: HUME, KANT, AND THE CURRENT RELEVANCE ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "disagreement; epistemology; evidence; experience; hume; kant; reason", "summary": "Together, their perspectives highlight the complexity of addressing epistemic disagreements and the need to balance abstract principles with empirical considerations. These classical perspectives remain relevant as they inform contemporary discussions, which have expanded to address the nuanced dynamics of epistemic disagreements in today's polarized society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6123", "words": "3585", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Owere A. Ejidje ILIARO, PhD", "title": "PHILOSOPHY, POVERTY AND THE RE-MAKING OF THE NIGERIA NATION", "date": "2024", "keywords": "citizens; development; disciplines; economy; nigeria; philosophy; thinking", "summary": "NIGERIA'S QUAGMIRED ECONOMY AND POLITICS An average Nigerian, when confronted with issues bearing on Nigeria economy, politics and general development, will surely speak from the negative perspective. Keywords: Philosophy, poverty, development, exploitation, political systems, Nigeria.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6125", "words": "4889", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Dr. Christian Maduabuchi Umeanwe", "title": "EXPLORING THE INTERSECTIONS OF FAITH AND REASON: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTEGRATING RELIGION AND SCIENCE", "date": "2024", "keywords": "challenges; faith; knowledge; philosophy; press; religion; science; understanding; university; view", "summary": "Keywords: Exploring, Intersections, Faith, Reason, Challenges, Opportunities, Integrating, Religion, Science. Scholars have identified three primary perspectives on their relationship: i. Conflict: Religion and science are inherently at odds. ii.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6126", "words": "6817", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Mark Omorovie Ikeke, PhD", "title": "THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTIANITY AND THE SOCIO-SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION (ANIMATION) OF THE WORLD IN THE LIGHT OF GAUDIUM ET SPES (GS) 43", "date": "2024", "keywords": "catholic; christianity; church; god; jesus; life; people; spirit; work; world", "summary": "They are spirit, Christianity, socio- spiritual, transformation, animation, world, and Gaudium et Spes (GS). The final term that requires definition here is \u201cworld.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6127", "words": "4133", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Valentine Ojiegbe", "title": "RETHINKING JUSTICE IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS: A PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY", "date": "2024", "keywords": "development; enforcement; environmental; human; justice; laws; nature; regulations; rights; value", "summary": "Drawing upon theories of environmental justice and legal pluralism, it proposes a transformative framework centered on principles of distributive, procedural, and recognition justice. This critical juncture demands a paradigm shift in environmental justice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6128", "words": "4928", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Peter Iorhom Akunoko, Ph.D", "title": "UNDERSTANDING HEIDEGGER'S ONTOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE I N RELATION TO TEMPORALITY AND TIME", "date": "2024", "keywords": "beings; dasein; heidegger; temporality; time", "summary": "By and large, time is not the mere flowing time of the clock but the meaningful time of humans; human activity is what makes time time. It is onlywhen we understand ordinary time as a thinned out or reduced version of world-time, and we regard world time as a disconnected form of originary temporality that we can explain the continuity of time.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6129", "words": "5632", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Afunugo, Kenechi Nnaemeka", "title": "XENOPHOBIAAND NATIONAL IDENTITY: A STUDY AND MORAL EVALUATION OF CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN-NIGERIAN CONFLICTS ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS", "date": "2024", "keywords": "africa; africans; conflicts; identity; media; nigeria; nigerians; online; south; south africa", "summary": "NIGERIA'S NETIZENS EXTENDING ONLINE DISPUTE TO FRAUDULENT ORDERING OF ONLINE GOODS Zage (2024) records that the online conflict went beyond ride-hailing requests, with some Nigerians placing fake food orders from South Africa businesses, as illustrated in an X user's post (cited by Zage) to wit: \u201cSouth Africa has restaurants where you can order food and pay upon delivery. This was clearly exemplified in the focus of this research which is recent online tensions between Nigerians and South Africans regarding the booking and cancellation of ride-hailing services like Bolt and Uber, as well as the frustration caused by the increase in online purchases made by Nigerians in South Africa.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6130", "words": "6857", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "CN Ogugua; Ike Odimegwu", "title": "DOES INTERNATIONAL LAW BAN THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION? A PHILOSOPHICALAPPRAISAL", "date": "2024", "keywords": "charter; colonial; law; peace; right; secession; state; theory", "summary": "Objection from International law and Practice Another strong objection against the claim that international law prohibits SD is that such claim 158 Aquino Journal of Philosophy, Vol 4 Issue 3, December 2024. Similar point was made by Vidmar (2015, p. 370) who argues that the fact that international law prohibit secession outside the context of decolonization is evident in customary international law since 1945.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6132", "words": "3422", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Ikea, Chidimma S., Ph.D", "title": "THE ETHICS OF NUDITY AND WOMAN DIGNITY IN THE MEDIA", "date": "2024", "keywords": "body; dignity; female; issue; media; nudity; society; women; words", "summary": "Abstract This paper looks at the ethics of nudity and woman dignity in the contemporary society. Keywords: Nudity, woman, woman dignity, ethics, media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6133", "words": "8375", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Jude I. Onebunne; Sylvia Chinazom Ezeaka", "title": "CRITICALAPPRECIATION OF AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AND AFRICAN LITERATURE", "date": "2024", "keywords": "african; appreciation; god; handwriting; history; literacy; literature; movement; n.d; onebunne; philosophy; religion; theology; tradition; works; writing", "summary": "Scheub and Gunner (2022) opined that African literature in versions of oral literature, pre- colonial African literature, colonial African literature, and post-colonial literature is sourced from all the nations of continental Africa can be complicated for any attempt at its definition as each nation has its own unique history, culture, tribes, and traditions. Keywords: African philosophy, African literature, African religion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6796", "words": "6271", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Modestus Anyaegbu, PhD ", "title": "WHAT IS IN A (SUR)NAME? IGBOS AND THE GRADUAL OBLITERATION OF THEIR IDENTITY: A CAUSE FOR CONCERN", "date": "2025", "keywords": "change; child; culture; family; identity; igbo; language; lineage; people; surnames; titles", "summary": "Those titles had Igbo names and meanings attached to them through which they conveyed the conviction, the traditional values and history of the people. It must not be forgotten that Igbo names are self-explanatory and self-identifying.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6797", "words": "4401", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Okewu Michael Peter ", "title": "THE DIGNITY OF LIFE IN THE LIGHT OF ALBERT SCHWEITZER\u2019S PHILOSOPHY OF REVERENCE FOR LIFE ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "beings; life; living; philosophy; reverence; schweitzer", "summary": "As Western civilization moved toward industrialization and technological progress, Schweitzer believed that humanity began to view life, including human life, through a mechanistic lens. This calls for a rethinking of practices like factory farming, animal experimentation, and environmental destruction, all of which involve the exploitation and suffering of non-human life (Schweitzer, 1954).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6798", "words": "5706", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Remigius Achinike Obah PhD; Victor Chizi Ihunda PhD", "title": "IS TRADITIONAL EPISTEMOLOGY ANDROCENTRIC? A QUESTION AND RESPONSE IN THE LIGHT OF JANE DURAN\u2019S FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGY ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "duran; epistemology; feminist; knowledge; nature; philosophy; women", "summary": "Moreover, while some of these feminist scholars work in epistemology are aimed at exposing the masculinity of different areas of knowledge (Lennon & Whitford, 1994, p. 1), others are concerned with articulating a way of knowing that pertains to women\u2014feminist epistemology. ISSN: 2786-9792 22 Some of the feminist scholars who have worked in the area of epistemology and have shaped the discourse of feminist epistemology include Evelyn Fox Keller (in her work, Reflections on Gender and Science and", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6799", "words": "5364", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Jude Chibuzo Udenkwo ", "title": "OCHICHI NCHIGBU AND SIT-TIGHTISM IN CONTEMPORARY LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA: A PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATION ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "africa; democracy; dictatorship; leaders; nchigbu; ochichi; philosophy; politics; power; sit; society; states; tightism", "summary": "African states thus became battlegrounds where ethnic groups of varying sizes and strengths contended for political power and economic dominance. Over the years, the question as to \u2018why and how\u2019 African dictators continue to have a stronghold to political power against the will of the ruled has been recurring in a consistent consistency.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6800", "words": "6348", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Sampson Edodi; Musa Ibori", "title": "CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF NONRECIPROCAL FRAMEWORKS IN GEOPOLITICAL SHIFTS AND THE PROSPECTS OF AFRICAN EXPORTS: THE CASE OF THE AFRICAN GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ACT (AGOA) ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "access; african; agoa; countries; economic; ecowas; exports; growth; market; products; states; trade; west", "summary": "The implication is that because AGOA failed to eliminate pre-existing quotas as observed by Asmah and Taiwo (2016), it does not pose a significant challenge to West African exports. AGOA increased export diversity in West Africa: AGOA has played a crucial role in diversifying West African exports.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6801", "words": "4430", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Aguinam, Callistus C. ; Asadu, Godfrey C. PhD. ", "title": "EPISTEMICIDE AND THE CHALLENGES OF DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: RETHINKING KNOWLEDGE FOR PROGRESS ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "african; development; epistemicide; knowledge; level; nations; people; way", "summary": "The next section would examine how this mentality was developed through destruction of African knowledge. African knowledge was greatly disfigured with its contact with the West.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6802", "words": "5587", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Evaristus Ifeanacho, PhD ", "title": "\u201cENTERING THROUGH THE NARROW GATE\u201d (MATT. 7:13): TOWARDS REINVIGORATING THE SPIRITUAL COMMITMENT OF THE NIGERIAN CATHOLIC KNIGHTS", "date": "2025", "keywords": "catholic; christ; church; faithful; holy; knights; laity; life; order; way", "summary": "According to the Catechism of Catholic Church, \u201cthe way of Christ \u2018leads to life\u2019; a contrary way \u2018leads to destruction\u2019 (Mt 7:13). Keywords: Laity, Catholic Church, knighthood, spiritual commitment, evangelization.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6803", "words": "4008", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Stephen Emmanuel; Fasiku, Gbenga Cornelius PhD ", "title": "THE MEDIA, TRUTH AND THE ETHICS OF PUBLIC OPINION IN THE AGE OF PROPAGANDA ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "information; media; news; opinion; platforms; public; truth", "summary": "From news broadcasts to social media platforms, the media has the capacity to inform, persuade, and sometimes manipulate public views, often serving as the primary source through which individuals understand and interpret the world around them. Social media platform have further amplified the media\u2019s role in shaping public opinion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6804", "words": "4861", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Dr. Uchenna Nympha Nkama", "title": "NAVIGATING THE INTERSECTION OF CULTURAL NORMS AND FEMINIST IDEALS IN CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE\u2019S \u2018WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS\u2019: LESSONS FOR NIGERIAN FEMINISTS", "date": "2025", "keywords": "adichie; equality; feminist; gender; male; nigeria; norms; roles; women; work", "summary": "The findings emphasize the need for an inclusive feminist framework that engages both local traditions and global discourses to promote gender equality effectively. Chimamanda Adichie has emerged and contributed significantly to contemporary feminist discourse, particularly in African contexts and presents a compelling argument for gender equality while acknowledging the cultural and social realities that shape gender relations in Nigeria and beyond (Adichie, 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6805", "words": "7249", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi, Ph.D. ", "title": "ENGAGING THE IDEA OF SUSTAINABLE WELL-BEING THROUGH THE IDEA OF RELATIONAL WELL-BEING ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "demands; group; human; idea; individual; life; personality; psychological; society; wellbeing", "summary": "But being well is a concept that is applied to human beings, whereas well-being is a wider concept Lawrence Ogbo Engaging the Idea of Sustainable well-being through the Idea\u2026 96 that needs a broad interpretation and categorisation to explain it sufficiently. A particular way of locating this is to locate the variations in the psychological make-up of human beings.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6806", "words": "6161", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Ishaya rBunu (Ph.D Fellow, UNN) ; Habila Katuka, Ph.D; Ibrahim Sersinyang ", "title": "THE PARADIGM OF TERRORISTS\u2019OPERATIONS IN TARABA STATE, THE PROMISSORY NOTE OF THE LAW, THE FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE ROLE OF RELIGION ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "activities; banditry; boko; government; haram; national; nigeria; people; security; state; taraba; taraba state; terrorism; vol", "summary": "107 THE PARADIGM OF TERRORISTS\u2019OPERATIONS IN TARABA STATE, THE PROMISSORY NOTE OF THE LAW, THE FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE ROLE OF RELIGION Ishaya rBunu (Ph.D Fellow, UNN) Lecturer Department of Christian Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Taraba State Univeristy, Jalingo (ishayabrunu@gmail.com) & Habila Katuka, Ph.D Lecturer Department of Christian Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Taraba State Univeristy, Jalingo (katukashock@gmail.com) & Ibrahim Sersinyang Department of Christian Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Taraba State Univeristy, Jalingo ABSTRACT Hitherto, terrorists in Taraba State have engaged in the nefarious act of bombing of facilities, leading to the loss of many lives and destruction of property. However, in recent times, there has been a growing concern over the changing dynamism and paradigm shift in the trends and patternsof terrorist activities, especiallyin Taraba State.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6807", "words": "4900", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Habila Katuka, Ph.D; John Moses Maikomo, Ph.D ", "title": "MACABRE DANCE OF MASQUERADES IN OUR POLITICAL SQUARE: AN EXPLORATION OF THE INTERSECTION OF RELIGION AND POLITICS IN NORTHEASTERN NIGERIA ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "candidates; christian; council; leaders; leadership; muslim; needs; nigeria; northeastern; politicians; region; religion", "summary": "Notably, the needs of these religious leaders appear to align more closely with the aspirations of political leaders, thereby fostering a connection between the two groups. This situation highlights the necessity of investigating the reasons behind the endorsement of political candidates by religious leaders, who are often perceived as mere instruments in the political arena.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6808", "words": "2621", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "JOHNSON UGOCHUKWU OFOEGBU PHD ", "title": "RETHINKING THE IMPERATIVE OF TEACHERS' COMPETENCES IN INCLUSIVE EDUCATION: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH", "date": "2025", "keywords": "development; education; experiences; learning; needs; phenomenology; teachers", "summary": "Teacher education for inclusion: Profile of inclusive teachers. Rethinking the imperative of teachers' competences in... 133 COMPETENCES FOR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION Ainscow (2012) affirms the essence of teacher education in promoting inclusive education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6809", "words": "4155", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Emmanuel Adetokunbo OGUNDELE", "title": "ETHNIC CHAUVINISM AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: AN APPRAISAL.", "date": "2025", "keywords": "chauvinism; conflict; development; ethnicity; group; individuals; national; nigeria; patriotism", "summary": "In these cases, individuals or groups take up arms to attack and kill members of opposing ethnic groups. However, the structural development of Nigeria is hindered by the persistence of ethnic chauvinism, which impedes equitable access to developmental opportunities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6810", "words": "3092", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "OKAFOR, GABRIEL OGECHI Ph.D", "title": "PEACE EDUCATION IN NIGERIA, A PRACTICAL ANTIDOTE TO VIOLENCE APPROACH IN SCHOOLS AND THE SOCIETY AT LARGE ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "education; nigeria; peace; peace education; schools; society; violence; war", "summary": "Peace education in nigeria, a practical antidote to violence\u2026 149 Another challenge facing peace education in Nigerian schools is inadequate funding of both materials and human resources on the part of government for effective teaching and learning. Interesting issues such as the meaning of peace, challenges of peace education and peace educators were studied.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6811", "words": "5278", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Omorovie Ikeke; Kenneth N Agetue", "title": "ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AS A THREAT TO HUMAN SECURITY IN URHOBOLAND ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "delta; environmental; gas; health; life; nigeria; oil; people; pollution; security; urhoboland", "summary": "Environmental pollution is the injection into the atmosphere, land, or marine bodies of poisonous or unhealthy substances or elements. Some of the negative effects of environmental pollution are that it can lead to health problems, environmental degradation, climate change, degradation of social infrastructure, occupational hazards, and impede human security, which is necessary for people to obtain an optimal good life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6812", "words": "5126", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Isaac Iorember Keryongu. ; Benedict Michael Ph.D ", "title": "THE ROLE OF BOUNDARY SITUATIONS IN KARL JASPERS' EPISTEMOLOGY AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN UNDERSTANDING ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "boundary; existence; existential; individuals; jaspers; situations", "summary": "Isaac & Benedict The Role Of Boundary Situations In Karl Jaspers' Epistemology\u2026 169 THE IMPLICATIONS OF JASPERS\u2019 BOUNDARY SITUATIONS FOR HUMAN UNDERSTANDING Karl Jaspers' concept of boundary situations (Grenzsituationen) holds significant implications for human understanding, particularly for how individuals confront the ultimate limitations and possibilities inherent in human existence. The implications of boundary situations for human understanding are profound: reveal the essential incompleteness and contingency of human knowledge.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6813", "words": "6763", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Victor Ogheneochuko JEKO., Ph.D ", "title": "THE NEXUS OF PHILOSOPHY AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR NIGERIA\u2019S DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENCE ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "corruption; country; development; good; governance; human; journal; leadership; national; national development; nigeria; philosophy; society", "summary": "Nigeria should create the atmosphere for an economically enabling environment through the instrumentality of national philosophy. Philosophy plays a critical role in galvanizing any country\u2019s quest for national development.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6814", "words": "7736", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "IKORO, ONYINYECHI STELLA Ph.D ", "title": "ICONS, INDEXES AND SYMBOLS IN CHIMAMANDAADICHIE\u2019S PURPLE HIBISCUS: A SEMIOTIC APPROACH", "date": "2025", "keywords": "family; father; fear; figurines; hibiscus; icons; indexes; jaja; kambili; mama; papa; red; signs; symbols", "summary": "Examples of symptomatic indexical are: Papa\u2019s voice was low, very low, \u2026 face looked swollen already, with pus-tipped rashes spread across (pp. 14, 23), \u2026shocked eyes begged him to seal his mouth (p. 14), Papa swayed from side to side (p. 15), Papa\u2019s breathing was always noisy, but now he panted as if he were out of breath (p. 23), \u2026startling me although her Igbo words were low and calming. 11, 14, 15), \u2026the water-colour painting of a woman with a child\u2026the Virgin and Child oil Painting (p. 126), Jaja turned to the statue of the preening lion (p. 140), \u2026and I saw her, the Blessed Virgin: an image in the pale sun, a red glow on the back of my hand (p. 278), \u2026 the mask (p. 94).\u2026Fela, Osadebe and Onyeka (musical icons) (p. 126 ), \u2026huge rosary with blue beads and a metal crucifix (p. 132).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-6815", "words": "5788", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu, PhD", "title": "IGBO-AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY OF BEING AND CATEGORIES OF BEING ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "african; concept; edeh; force; god; igbo; kanu; metaphysics; philosophy", "summary": "Emmanuel Edeh, in his work Towards an Igbo Metaphysics, was one of the earliest Nigerian thinkers from the Igbo-speaking area who tried to articulate Igbo metaphysics, in which he tried to define being, using Igbo categories. Njoku forgets here that what we are looking for in Igbo metaphysics is not a name for a thing that is contained in everything in the Igbo world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7647", "words": "5044", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Modestus Anyaegbu PhD", "title": "HEIDEGGER AND THE EFFECTS OF WESTERN TECHNOLOGY ON AFRICAN VALUES", "date": "2025", "keywords": "african; heidegger; human; man; nature; technology; values; world", "summary": "Drawing primarily from his seminal work The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, it will be discovered that modern technology is a revealing in the sense of challenging that unlocks what is hidden in nature to transform, store and control it. This means that modern technology is using nature as a \u201creserve,\u201d a \u201cstanding-reserve\u201d ready at hand.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7648", "words": "7241", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Ovwata Success Onojieruo", "title": "METAMODERNISM THROUGH THE LENSES OF EPISTEMOLOGY", "date": "2025", "keywords": "culture; epistemology; form; human; idea; knowledge; metamodernism; new; philosophy; postmodernism; reality; social", "summary": "Whether in the form of artificial intelligence, or virtual realities; the metamodern ideology draws its rooting deep into these salient yet less engaged areas of human reality. This meant that philosophy had to deal with the world as it were, rather than appeal to some abstract and metaphysical phenomenon which had no bearing on human reality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7649", "words": "7713", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Ovwata Success Onojieruo; Idubamo Daniel Agbada", "title": "METAMODERNISM AND THE QUESTION OF PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE", "date": "2025", "keywords": "confidentiality; data; digital; government; individual; information; metamodernism; privacy; private; question; right; social; society", "summary": "On this note, private information which falls as confidential data when handled by an organisation, company, group, or government must only be released with the obtained consent of the individual holding such privacy right, or a duly obtained waiver, subject to specific usage and restricted from public access. Privacy rights.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7650", "words": "4107", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Jude Emeka Odoh, PhD; Florence Eke Adejoh, PhD; Jetty Joe Odey, PhD", "title": "JUDITH BUTLER'S GENDER PERFORMATIVITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT A CRITICAL ANALYSIS", "date": "2025", "keywords": "algorithms; butler; gender; identities; identity; performativity; press; space; systems; technology", "summary": "This co-production of gender identity and digital technology is a mix of how digital technology influences the expression and perception of gender identities and how social practices form the development and use of digital systems. Going forward, digital gender identity depends on both performative agency and collective rethinking of technological systems that enhance different expressions of self.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7651", "words": "4246", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Uchenna Ofondu E.", "title": "PENSION PAYMENT IN NIGERIA CHALLENGES AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS", "date": "2025", "keywords": "government; nigeria; payment; pension; pensioners; people; retirees; service; worker", "summary": "Pension laws have been codified and enacted by the appropriate arm of government. More stringent law against non-remittance of deductions: Pension laws should be tightened, especially, with regard to non-remittance of deductions by MDAs and other corporate bodies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7652", "words": "5821", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Philip Osarobu ISANBOR; Paul Olorunsola FOLORUNSO", "title": "NIGERIAN SURVIVAL IN THE EMERGING \u2018SAPA\u2019 CULTURE AND ADMINISTRATION THE MARXIAN INTERROGATION", "date": "2025", "keywords": "class; culture; isanbor; marx; nigeria; philosophy; production; sapa; society; struggle; youths", "summary": "Marxism\u2019s focus on economic systems does not sufficiently address how corruption and weak institutions amplify economic inequality and perpetuate poverty. Keywords: Class struggle, Capitalism, Development, Economic inequality, Marxism, Sapa.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7653", "words": "4579", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Justus Isaac Ph. D", "title": "DEMOCRACY AS A SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA A CRITICAL ANALYSIS", "date": "2025", "keywords": "democracy; democratic; governance; nigeria; people; power; rule; system", "summary": "Democracy is difficult to define, not every political system claims to be a socialist system, but even communist systems claim to be democracies (International encyclopedia of social science 1972). Democracy system is dynamic but attainable.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7654", "words": "7923", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "KENECHI NNAEMEKA AFUNUGO; CHUKWUKAMMA, KINGSLEY .E.", "title": "DEFORESTATION IN AWKA METROPOLIS VIOLATING AFRICAN ECO-THEOLOGY AND HUMAN WELLBEING", "date": "2025", "keywords": "african; anambra; awka; deforestation; earth; eco; environment; erosion; forests; health; igbo; land; loss; metropolis; nature; nigeria; state; theology", "summary": "Integrating tree preservation into urban development plans will promote environmental health and align Awka Metropolis with global standards of sustainable real estate management. Costanza et al. (2007) also assert that a person's relationship with their environment, natural and built, is vital to HWB, as ecological health directly supports human health and productivity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7655", "words": "5200", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Iwunze Davidson Chimezie (Ph.D)", "title": "OPEN WOUND AND THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR A METAPHORICAL READING OF KAINENE\u2019S LOSS IN CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE\u2019S HALF OF A YELLOW SUN.", "date": "2025", "keywords": "adichie; civil; half; igbos; kainene; loss; nigerian; people; trauma; war; wound", "summary": "There is a notion that some parts of the nation are marginalized which is attributed to the effects of Nigerian civil war. ISSN: 2786-9792 93 eventually metamorphosed into civil war with its attendant trauma.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7656", "words": "2402", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Dr. Christian Maduabuchi Umeanwe", "title": "DIVINE CREATION VERSUS HUMAN INNOVATION CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE", "date": "2025", "keywords": "christian; creation; human; innovation; intelligence", "summary": "Human innovation, including AI development, is seen as a reflection of God's creative spirit. This discussion explores the theological implications of AI development, examining how Christian religious perspectives inform our understanding of AI's potential, limitations, and ethical considerations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7657", "words": "3347", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Modupe Ola Jumoke Adu", "title": "STOICISM ORIGINS, EVOLUTION, AND RELEVANCE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY", "date": "2025", "keywords": "control; life; philosophy; reason; stoicism; stoics; things", "summary": "He is credited with organizing Stoic philosophy into three interrelated fields of ethics, physics and logic. \uf0b7 Ethics: Eudaimonia, or human flourishing, attained by leading a life of virtue (aret\u0113), was the ultimate goal of Stoic philosophy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7658", "words": "5325", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Ushingio, Peter Ushingio,; Chukwu, Paul Ogbonna", "title": "PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION A PARADIGM FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "date": "2025", "keywords": "conflict; development; human; ibuanyidanda; mind; nation; noetic; peace; people; philosophy; propaedeutic", "summary": "This paper points out that even though there are many attempts made, and methods employed to resolve conflict, and great efforts have been made in our climes regarding global peace, world peace, conflict avoidance, conflict management and conflict resolutions, we still experience disasters, mayhem, acrimony, wars which have taken a toll on many nations\u2019 development. Keywords: Peace, Conflict resolution, Ibuanyidanda noetic propaedeutic, National development.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7659", "words": "5298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "EKENEDILICHUKWU A. OKOLO, PhD; OZIEZI CHRISTIAN, PhD", "title": "THE SETTLEMENT OF THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL IN THE LAND OF CANAAN LESSON FOR THE NIGERIA NATION", "date": "2025", "keywords": "control; country; interest; israel; land; nation; nigeria; resource; restructuring; tribes", "summary": "Evidently, understanding, brotherliness, accommodation and patriotism are the hallmark for peaceful and harmonious coexistence among people from different ethnicity and tribe. National unity emphasizes the oneness and acceptance of other parts of the country and other ethnic groups as part and parcel of the country.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7660", "words": "3074", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Lilian IjeomaAmaechi Ph.D", "title": "SCHOOL CLIMATE AS CORRELATES TO TEACHERS\u2019 JOB PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN LAGOS STATE NIGERIA", "date": "2025", "keywords": "climate; job; lagos; performance; school; secondary; teachers", "summary": "Specifically, this study was to examine the relationship between school climate and teachers\u2019 job performance in public senior secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria RESEARCH QUESTION Q1. Is there any relationship between school climate and teachers\u2019 job performance in public senior secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7661", "words": "4491", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "22", "author": "Prof. Ogundare, Z. B.; Dr. (Mrs) Owoyemi, D. O.", "title": "BETWEEN RECOGNITION AND INCLUSION RETHINKING MULTICULTURALISM IN NIGERIA\u2019S DEMOCRATIC LANDSCAPE", "date": "2025", "keywords": "cultural; democracy; governance; inclusion; multiculturalism; nigeria; recognition; state", "summary": "owoyemi.deborah@eksu.edu.ng ABSTRACT Multicultural democracy often promises political recognition for diverse cultural groups, yet such recognition rarely translates into substantive inclusion within state institutions. These deficiencies call for a fundamental rethinking of multiculturalism, one that moves beyond recognition to structurally embedded forms of political inclusion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7662", "words": "3185", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "23", "author": "Oviemuno Wilfred EGARA; Vincent Gerald ONWUDINJO; Isaac Ikechukwu ONOYIMA; Blessing OBOLI (PhD)", "title": "TRANSCOLONIALISM AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN AFRICA A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY", "date": "2025", "keywords": "africa; knowledge; philosophy; power; production; systems; transcolonialism; university", "summary": "This dynamic reinforces a hierarchy where knowledge produced in the Global North is deemed universal, while African knowledge is relegated to the status of the particular or untrustworthy. Philosophically, transcolonialism highlights the contested terrain of African knowledge systems and the struggle for epistemic sovereignty in the face of hegemonic global knowledge structures.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7663", "words": "5850", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Hyginus Chibuike Ezebuilo; Peter Sixtus Emenike", "title": "GENDER, LAND OWNERSHIP, AND DEVELOPMENT A SOCIAL RELATIONS ANALYSIS OF WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES IN IGBOLAND, NIGERIA.", "date": "2025", "keywords": "development; economic; gender; igboland; inequality; institutions; kabeer; land; nigeria; ownership; policies; relations; social; women", "summary": "Enhancing the role of women in crop production: A case study of Igbo women in Nigeria. However, women face structural barriers that limit their access to land financing and ownership: \uf0b7 Limited access to credit: Women are less likely to secure loans for land purchase due to lack of collateral, as most family properties are registered under male names (Adegoke et al., 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7664", "words": "5196", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu, PhD", "title": "INTERSECTION OF AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND CHRISTIANITY THOUGHTS FOR THE PROMOTION OF MUTUAL RELATIONS", "date": "2025", "keywords": "african; christianity; culture; god; journal; kanu; life; religion; respect; values", "summary": "The adage \u201cA single tree cannot make a forest\u201d finds a potent expression in the Communal character of African life. And because of the place honesty occupies in African life, some elders have conferred titles based on their truthfulness and their ability to dispense justice without fear or favour, and any injustice or unfairness destroyed confidence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7665", "words": "7037", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Jude I. Onebunne, PhD", "title": "EXPLORING BELONGINGNESS AS A COMMON STRAND IN AFROMODALS", "date": "2025", "keywords": "afromodals; belongingness; community; existence; human; identity; iroegbu; onebunne; philosophy; reality; strand", "summary": "It offers an epistemic lens through which African identity is not only affirmed but dynamically cultivated within community contexts (Gyekye, 1997). It provides an epistemic perspective in which African identity is both confirmed and actively developed in the context of community (Gyekye, 1997).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7666", "words": "5272", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Titus Awukane Afatang; Stephen Chibuikem Okeke", "title": "QUESTIONING GOD\u2019S OMNIPOTENCE A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF LEIBNIZ\u2019S THEODICY", "date": "2025", "keywords": "evil; existence; god; good; leibniz; problem; reason; world", "summary": "Undoubtedly, the problem of evil and the question of human suffering in the world have a whole lot of implications for the existence of God, and for the traditional attributes of God. While theists, aside believing in God uphold some fundamental attributes as being essential to God\u2019s nature (such as goodness), some philosophers argue that Titus & Stephen Questioning God\u2019s Omnipotence: A Critical Appraisal\u2026 196 noticeable pain and suffering in the world is inconsistent with the nature of God as described by theists, and so, the reality of evil could even go beyond denying God and or a total dismissal of his existence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aquino-7667", "words": "5714", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Dr. Emmanuel Ukata", "title": "HANS JONAS\u2019 ETHICS OF LIFE A PANACEA TO MODERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CRISES", "date": "2025", "keywords": "crises; ethics; future; hans; jonas; life; nature; responsibility", "summary": "These developments, while beneficial in some respects, have outpaced ethical reflection, resulting in what Jonas describes as a Promethean gap between human power and moral responsibility (Jonas, 1984, pp. First, it emphasizes anticipation: the moral agent must consider not just the immediate consequences of an action but its long-term effects on the viability of human life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}]