item: #1 of 173 id: aquino-1047 author: Hyginus Chibuike EZEBUILO title: POLITICAL EXCLUSION AND DOMESTIC TERRORISM IN AFRICA date: 2021 words: 8791 flesch: 43 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. keywords: africa; attacks; exclusion; experience; government; grievances; groups; inclusion; people; power; state; study; terrorism; violence cache: aquino-1047.pdf plain text: aquino-1047.txt item: #2 of 173 id: aquino-1048 author: Oreoluwa Idris ADESANYA title: REVIEWING MODERN SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE WITHIN THE SCOPE OF NIETZSCHE’S IRRATIONALISM date: 2021 words: 5010 flesch: 42 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’s 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. keywords: irrationalism; knowledge; life; nature; nietzsche; philosophy; rationality; reason; science cache: aquino-1048.pdf plain text: aquino-1048.txt item: #3 of 173 id: aquino-1049 author: Lukman Ademola LAWAL title: AGAINST METHODISM: A SOCIO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF SCIENCE date: 2021 words: 6562 flesch: 48 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. keywords: idea; knowledge; kuhn; method; philosophy; popper; science; scientists; theories; theory cache: aquino-1049.pdf plain text: aquino-1049.txt item: #4 of 173 id: aquino-1050 author: Zaria Ibrahim ABUBAKAR title: A CRITIQUE OF THE DIVINE COMMAND THEORY OF ETHICS FROM THE TEACHINGS OF THE ABRAHAMIC RELIGION date: 2021 words: 5931 flesch: 60 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. keywords: command; command theory; divine; ethics; god; good; morality; ockham; theory cache: aquino-1050.pdf plain text: aquino-1050.txt item: #5 of 173 id: aquino-1051 author: Charles C. NWEKE title: ON THE PHILOSPHIC FOUNDATION OF SCIENCE date: 2021 words: 3248 flesch: 36 summary: American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) maintain in their “History and Philosophy of Science” that: Until the 19th century, natural science was primarily known as “natural philosophy”, and contemporary philosophy still maintains deep connections with science. Spirkin avers to this effect that, “Many general guiding ideas that lie at the foundation of modern science were first enunciated by the perceptive force of philosophical thought.” keywords: century; foundation; history; knowledge; october; philosophy; science cache: aquino-1051.pdf plain text: aquino-1051.txt item: #6 of 173 id: aquino-1052 author: Stephen Timothy AKPAN; Michael BENEDICT title: EXCLUSIVE RATIONALISM AND EMPIRICISM: A DISSERVICE TO THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE date: 2021 words: 5377 flesch: 57 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. keywords: empiricism; experience; knowledge; philosophy; rationalism; reason; senses cache: aquino-1052.pdf plain text: aquino-1052.txt item: #7 of 173 id: aquino-1053 author: Clement Chimaobi EMEFU title: A NATION’S ECONOMY IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ERA: WHAT NIGERIA CAN LEARN FROM FRANCE date: 2021 words: 8484 flesch: 16 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. 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 cache: aquino-1053.pdf plain text: aquino-1053.txt item: #8 of 173 id: aquino-1054 author: Victoria OpenifOluwa AKOLEOWO title: A THOMISTIC INTERPRETATION OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FOR NATIONAL UNITY date: 2021 words: 5137 flesch: 44 summary: A closer analysis of Noelliste’s 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 ‘the common good’ as the basis of national unity. keywords: education; god; good; human; knowledge; religion; society; unity; world cache: aquino-1054.pdf plain text: aquino-1054.txt item: #9 of 173 id: aquino-1055 author: Justin Nnaemeka ONYEUKAZIRI title: A PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION ON PLOTINUS’ CONCEPT OF BEAUTY AS AN ECSTATIC EXPERIENCE OF THE SOUL date: 2021 words: 7100 flesch: 61 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’ Analysis and Critique of the General Concept of Beauty Plotinus’ concept of beauty is brilliantly exposed in his treatise entitled, On Beauty. keywords: beauty; form; intellect; person; plotinus; soul; world cache: aquino-1055.pdf plain text: aquino-1055.txt item: #10 of 173 id: aquino-1056 author: Barnabas Obiora IDOKO title: PHILOSOPHY, THE CHURCH AND QUEST FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIBERATION IN NIGERIA date: 2021 words: 5022 flesch: 47 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. keywords: church; country; justice; liberation; masses; nigeria; philosophy; society; state; system cache: aquino-1056.pdf plain text: aquino-1056.txt item: #11 of 173 id: aquino-1057 author: Anthony Ugochukwu NWOKOYE title: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE THEORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS date: 2021 words: 5136 flesch: 39 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. keywords: ecosystem; environmental; ethics; human; nature; new; nonhuman; philosophy; species; value cache: aquino-1057.pdf plain text: aquino-1057.txt item: #12 of 173 id: aquino-1058 author: Chukwunonso Vitalis OGBO title: FOSTERING INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN NIGERIA date: 2021 words: 6495 flesch: 54 summary: Interreligious dialogue “is 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 keywords: christians; church; dialogue; fults; god; islam; muslims; nigeria; ogbo; people; religions cache: aquino-1058.pdf plain text: aquino-1058.txt item: #13 of 173 id: aquino-1830 author: Ikechukwu Anthony KANU title: THE HELLENIZATION OF AFRICAN TRADITIONAL DEITIES: THE CASE OF EKWENSU AND ESU date: 2021 words: 3559 flesch: 54 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. keywords: african; deities; ekwensu; esu; greek; hellenization; religion; yoruba cache: aquino-1830.pdf plain text: aquino-1830.txt item: #14 of 173 id: aquino-1831 author: Columbus N. OGBUJAH Ph.D; Nympha U. NKAMA title: PANDEMICS AND THE FUTURE OF ETHICS IN DEMOCRACIES date: 2021 words: 8615 flesch: 17 summary: In his incisive article – “The elusive definition of pandemic influenza,” Peter Doshi (2011) uses the WHO pandemic influenza guidelines, 1999–2009 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. 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 cache: aquino-1831.pdf plain text: aquino-1831.txt item: #15 of 173 id: aquino-1832 author: Arinze ONWUZULIKE title: ETHICS WITH (OUT) SUCCESS: BETWEEN SCHELER AND KANT date: 2021 words: 5792 flesch: 53 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. keywords: action; ethics; person; scheler; success; tenor; value; willing cache: aquino-1832.pdf plain text: aquino-1832.txt item: #16 of 173 id: aquino-1833 author: Isaac Chidi IGWE Ph.D. title: OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF DEATH: A CLUE FROM AN ONTOLOGICAL ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN HEIDEGGER AND SARTRE date: 2021 words: 7944 flesch: 64 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. keywords: death; existence; fear; heidegger; human; life; man; meaning; possibility; sartre cache: aquino-1833.pdf plain text: aquino-1833.txt item: #17 of 173 id: aquino-1834 author: Gabriel ASUQUO title: JUXTAPOSITION OF WESTERN, ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN METAPHYSICAL ORIENTATIONS date: 2021 words: 4573 flesch: 46 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. keywords: african; metaphysics; oriental; orientations; philosophy; things; world cache: aquino-1834.pdf plain text: aquino-1834.txt item: #18 of 173 id: aquino-1835 author: M. E. ABAM, Ph.D. title: TOWARDS AN INCLUSIVE HUMANISM date: 2021 words: 4915 flesch: 55 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. keywords: african; community; ehusani; humanism; live; people; philosophy; sense; world cache: aquino-1835.pdf plain text: aquino-1835.txt item: #19 of 173 id: aquino-1836 author: Sirajudeen OWOSHO, Ph.D. title: TOWARDS AFRICA'S TRANSFORMATION IN THE TWENTY- FIRST CENTURY: A DIALECTICAL APPRAISAL OF AUTHENTIC NATIONHOOD date: 2021 words: 4553 flesch: 50 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. keywords: africa; development; dialectics; history; nation; new; process; self cache: aquino-1836.pdf plain text: aquino-1836.txt item: #20 of 173 id: aquino-1837 author: Samuel Otu ISHAYA, Ph.D. title: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF RATIONALISM AND CRITICAL RATIONALISM: IMPLICATIONS FOR GENERAL STUDIES AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT date: 2021 words: 4317 flesch: 50 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 “there are no ultimate sources of knowledge; every source, every suggestion is welcome; and every source; every suggestion is open to criticism” (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. keywords: courses; descartes; development; knowledge; philosophy; rationalism; studies cache: aquino-1837.pdf plain text: aquino-1837.txt item: #21 of 173 id: aquino-1838 author: Ratzinger NWOBODO, Ph.D. title: A BEFITTING LIVING OR BURIAL: PERSPECTIVES OF LIFE AND DEATH IN IGBO ONOTOLOGY date: 2021 words: 8211 flesch: 66 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. keywords: ancestors; burial; dead; death; igbo; life; living; man; people; person; spirit cache: aquino-1838.pdf plain text: aquino-1838.txt item: #22 of 173 id: aquino-1839 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 words: 6553 flesch: 60 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. keywords: africa; apartheid; azure; black; cents; characters; duiker; novel; race; south; tshepo; violence; white cache: aquino-1839.pdf plain text: aquino-1839.txt item: #23 of 173 id: aquino-1840 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 words: 4076 flesch: 49 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. keywords: african; consensus; democracy; society; traditional; wiredu cache: aquino-1840.pdf plain text: aquino-1840.txt item: #24 of 173 id: aquino-1841 author: Barnabas TURMAN ; Philip ISANBOR title: ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS ON HUMAN HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE date: 2021 words: 5561 flesch: 56 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. keywords: actions; aristotle; ethics; good; happiness; human; isanbor; pleasure cache: aquino-1841.pdf plain text: aquino-1841.txt item: #25 of 173 id: aquino-1842 author: Yusuf DOGARA title: NIGERIA ON THE WHEEL OF DECAY: THE BOOK OF AMOS AND QUEST FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE date: 2021 words: 5652 flesch: 61 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. keywords: amos; god; injustice; israel; justice; message; nigeria; nigerians; people; society; socio; time cache: aquino-1842.pdf plain text: aquino-1842.txt item: #26 of 173 id: aquino-1843 author: Aanuoluwapo F. SUNDAY, Ph.D. title: RETHINKING THE PRIMITIVISM IN YORUBA ETHNOMEDICINE FOR CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE date: 2021 words: 4189 flesch: 51 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. keywords: african; culture; ethnomedicine; health; medicine; people; primitivism; yoruba cache: aquino-1843.pdf plain text: aquino-1843.txt item: #27 of 173 id: aquino-1844 author: Hyginus Chibuike EZEBUILO, Ph.D. ; Solomon Ewezuga NWANKWO title: KOLA NUT IN BONACHRISTUS UMEOGU'S IGBO METAPHYSICS date: 2021 words: 7093 flesch: 59 summary: As such, (Ogbalu, 1974:51) argues that, “kola nut is one of the fruits which cannot be removed by the people not even by the Whiteman from Igboland” 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. keywords: god; igbo; kola; kola nut; man; nature; nut; oji; reality; umeogu; world cache: aquino-1844.pdf plain text: aquino-1844.txt item: #28 of 173 id: aquino-2498 author: Rev Fr Gerald OHAERI, Cssp, Ph.D title: INVESTIGATING THE FOUNDATIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND MORALITY: A NIGERIAN PERSPECTIVE date: 2022 words: 3925 flesch: 52 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. keywords: foundation; issue; morality; nigeria; page; relationship; religion; society cache: aquino-2498.pdf plain text: aquino-2498.txt item: #29 of 173 id: aquino-2499 author: Bonaventure Chike ANETOH, Ph.D. title: AN EVALUATION OF PAUL FEYERABEND'S ANARCHICAL APPROACH IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE date: 2022 words: 4835 flesch: 41 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. keywords: anarchism; approach; feyerabend; investigation; philosophy; science; scientific cache: aquino-2499.pdf plain text: aquino-2499.txt item: #30 of 173 id: aquino-2500 author: Prof. Ikechukwu Anthony KANU, OSA. title: THE AMBIGUITIES OF OKOT P'BITEK'S DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICAN RELIGION date: 2022 words: 3804 flesch: 60 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. keywords: african; god; okot; p'bitek; people; philosophy; religion; scholars cache: aquino-2500.pdf plain text: aquino-2500.txt item: #31 of 173 id: aquino-2501 author: M.E. ABAM, Ph.D title: A CASE FOR CULTURAL RELATIVISM IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD date: 2022 words: 4644 flesch: 57 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. keywords: culture; language; philosophy; reality; relativism; rorty; truth; world cache: aquino-2501.pdf plain text: aquino-2501.txt item: #32 of 173 id: aquino-2502 author: Akinpelu A. OYEKUNLE, Ph.D title: RE-CONCEPTUALISING AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY AS DEVELOPMENTAL TOOL IN THE AGE OF GLOBALISATION date: 2022 words: 7298 flesch: 48 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. keywords: africa; challenges; dimension; factors; identity; life; objective; philosophy; view cache: aquino-2502.pdf plain text: aquino-2502.txt item: #33 of 173 id: aquino-2503 author: Charles B. BEREBON, Ph.D ; Judith G. GWATANA title: ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: REVISITING THE PARADIGM SHIFT AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION date: 2022 words: 3998 flesch: 33 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. keywords: activities; climate; degradation; environment; ethics; human; life; nature; philosophy cache: aquino-2503.pdf plain text: aquino-2503.txt item: #34 of 173 id: aquino-2504 author: Abubakar Zaria IBRAHIM, Ph.D title: VIRTUE IN THE DIVINE COMMAND THEORY OF ETHICS FROM THE SOKOTO CALIPHATE SCHOLARS date: 2022 words: 5931 flesch: 57 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. keywords: abdullahi; command; divine; ethics; god; human; morality; scholars; sokoto; theory; virtue cache: aquino-2504.pdf plain text: aquino-2504.txt item: #35 of 173 id: aquino-2505 author: Chinyere C. EMEDO, PhD; Johnkingsley N. EMEDO title: NEGLECT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THE BANE OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA date: 2022 words: 4759 flesch: 47 summary: “ 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. keywords: africa; countries; development; emedo; government; human; intelligence; technology; use; world cache: aquino-2505.pdf plain text: aquino-2505.txt item: #36 of 173 id: aquino-2506 author: Charles EHISIENMEN title: RE-MYTHOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF REINCARNATION IN BENIN TRADITION date: 2022 words: 3507 flesch: 55 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. keywords: benin; death; life; person; reincarnation; tradition cache: aquino-2506.pdf plain text: aquino-2506.txt item: #37 of 173 id: aquino-2507 author: Evaristus IFEANACHO, Ph.D title: THEO-PHILOSOPHICAL IMPORT OF “SUBDUE THE EARTH” (GEN.1,28): SUBDUING INSECURITY IN NIGERIA THROUGH CRITICAL THINKING date: 2022 words: 6965 flesch: 50 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. keywords: development; earth; education; environmental; fact; human; journal; page; people; public; reason; security; thinking; use cache: aquino-2507.pdf plain text: aquino-2507.txt item: #38 of 173 id: aquino-2508 author: Gabriel ASUQUO; Augustine Ibrahim MUSA title: KWASI WIREDU AND THE AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT QUAGMIRE: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS date: 2022 words: 6503 flesch: 46 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? keywords: african; contemporary; culture; development; kwasi; philosophy; project; self; society; traditional; wiredu cache: aquino-2508.pdf plain text: aquino-2508.txt item: #39 of 173 id: aquino-2509 author: Salaudin USMAN Ph.D; Benedict MICHAEL, Ph.D title: DEATH(ISU): SUSPENDED ANIMATION PROGRAMME IN EBIRA TAO THOUGHT date: 2022 words: 6841 flesch: 59 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. keywords: african; death; ebira; ebira tao; human; life; living; man; philosophy; print; tao; world cache: aquino-2509.pdf plain text: aquino-2509.txt item: #40 of 173 id: aquino-2510 author: Anthony Chikaeme ONWULIRI title: ETHICAL ISSUES AND THE BANE OF NIGERIA'S ECONOMY: A PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION. date: 2022 words: 6436 flesch: 42 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. keywords: behaviour; business; business ethics; employees; ethics; firm; journal; nepotism; nigeria; practices; principles; result; workers cache: aquino-2510.pdf plain text: aquino-2510.txt item: #41 of 173 id: aquino-2511 author: Mayokun Joyce OLOWONIYI title: PATRIARCHAL INFLUENCE ON THE RIGHT OF WOMEN OVER THEIR BODIES date: 2022 words: 3257 flesch: 50 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. keywords: african; culture; gender; proverbs; society; women; yoruba cache: aquino-2511.pdf plain text: aquino-2511.txt item: #42 of 173 id: aquino-2512 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 words: 5550 flesch: 59 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. keywords: character; destiny; efforts; failure; good; individual; life; ori; success; yoruba cache: aquino-2512.pdf plain text: aquino-2512.txt item: #43 of 173 id: aquino-2513 author: Glory Nse EDET; Blessing Ogechi EKEH title: EPISTEMOLOGICAL RE-EXAMINATION OF THE SOURCES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE date: 2022 words: 4173 flesch: 60 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. keywords: empiricism; knowledge; senses; sources cache: aquino-2513.pdf plain text: aquino-2513.txt item: #44 of 173 id: aquino-2514 author: Ratzinger E. E. NWOBODO, Ph.D title: THE ROLE OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY IN THE CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN SOCIETY date: 2022 words: 7454 flesch: 46 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). keywords: african; changes; children; culture; families; family; marriage; modernity; practices; role; society; values cache: aquino-2514.pdf plain text: aquino-2514.txt item: #45 of 173 id: aquino-2515 author: Chinyere T. ORJIAKOR, Ph.D title: RESISTANCE AND DEFLECTION TO THE CONTEMPT OF OTHERS: TONI MORRISON'S THE BLUEST EYES date: 2022 words: 7996 flesch: 70 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. keywords: african; american; beauty; black; eyes; girl; morrison; pauline; pecola; toni; white; women cache: aquino-2515.pdf plain text: aquino-2515.txt item: #46 of 173 id: aquino-2516 author: Gladys Oluwatosin OLUDARE title: AN EXAMINATION OF THE PRACTICE OF MOTHERHOOD AND SURROGACY IN YORUBA CULTURE date: 2022 words: 4089 flesch: 46 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. keywords: child; gestational; motherhood; pregnancy; surrogacy; surrogate; woman cache: aquino-2516.pdf plain text: aquino-2516.txt item: #47 of 173 id: aquino-2517 author: Francis TETE title: AN ECOCENTRIC PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL OF UNEP'S ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF OGONILAND date: 2022 words: 5619 flesch: 40 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. keywords: assessment; community; ecocentrism; environmental; ethics; land; leopold; nature; philosophy; press; unep; university; value cache: aquino-2517.pdf plain text: aquino-2517.txt item: #48 of 173 id: aquino-3182 author: Nyuykongi John Paul (Ph.D) title: The Vienna Circle and the Consolidation of Scientific Superiority over Metaphysics date: 2022 words: 5862 flesch: 47 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. keywords: approach; circle; epistemic; epistemology; experience; knowledge; metaphysics; philosophy; science; vienna; vienna circle cache: aquino-3182.pdf plain text: aquino-3182.txt item: #49 of 173 id: aquino-3183 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 words: 4197 flesch: 40 summary: In this connection, their major, rather unique contribution in philosophy of science is what is today known as Duhem – Quine thesis. However, this case is not applicable to the Duhem – Quine thesis. keywords: duhem; knowledge; philosophy; quine; science; theory; thesis cache: aquino-3183.pdf plain text: aquino-3183.txt item: #50 of 173 id: aquino-3184 author: Justin Nnaemeka ONYEUKAZIRI, (PhD) title: “Eudaimonism” in Classical West and East as Philosophy of Education Today date: 2022 words: 6930 flesch: 56 summary: Eudaimonistic Nature of Confucian Education The Confucian Analects (���Z), begins with the question of 「�W��」 (studying and learning/practice). From, the loving experience among family members and kin, 「�塾H」, as it could be found in the text 《��Z》 and 《左��》, to「��人」(“love humanity or human love”). keywords: education; end; good; human; life; person; philosophy; soul; � � cache: aquino-3184.pdf plain text: aquino-3184.txt item: #51 of 173 id: aquino-3185 author: ETUK, Anthony R., Ph.D. title: THE CHALLENGE OF ETHNOCENTRISM IN NIGERIAAND THE YIN-YANG PRINCIPLE OF COMPLEMENTARITY date: 2022 words: 6079 flesch: 52 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 “those 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” (2008, p.165). keywords: country; ethnocentrism; existence; groups; mindset; nature; nigeria; people; philosophy; politics; principle; yang; yin cache: aquino-3185.pdf plain text: aquino-3185.txt item: #52 of 173 id: aquino-3186 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 words: 4359 flesch: 57 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. keywords: hope; intersubjectivity; life; love; man; marcel; philosophy; relationship; thou; world cache: aquino-3186.pdf plain text: aquino-3186.txt item: #53 of 173 id: aquino-3187 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 words: 5982 flesch: 54 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. keywords: citizens; countries; global; order; pogge; poor; poverty; world cache: aquino-3187.pdf plain text: aquino-3187.txt item: #54 of 173 id: aquino-3189 author: Fabidun Francis Kayode; Bade-Afuye Toyin Beatrice title: CULTURAL INTERACTION AND YORÙBÁ TRADITIONAL EPISTEME date: 2022 words: 5268 flesch: 49 summary: They also signify numerous themes, events, occasions, and places in Yorùbá 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 Yorùbá encyclopedia of knowledge through the interpretation of these texts, and scholars are now examining many deep- seated values and concerns in Yorùbá culture and society (Wande, 1976). keywords: culture; episteme; ifa; interaction; knowledge; life; people; religion; society; way; yoruba; yorùbá cache: aquino-3189.pdf plain text: aquino-3189.txt item: #55 of 173 id: aquino-3190 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 words: 6978 flesch: 61 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. keywords: children; education; ego; igbo; kpa; life; mbute; money; nigeria; parents; people; wealth; work; yahoo cache: aquino-3190.pdf plain text: aquino-3190.txt item: #56 of 173 id: aquino-3191 author: Dr. Dinebari David Vareba; Dr. Charles Barivule Berebon title: Ecofeminism Reconceives Feminism in Potential Ecological Feminism date: 2022 words: 5355 flesch: 42 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). keywords: domination; ecofeminism; environmental; ethic; feminist; human; logic; nature; women cache: aquino-3191.pdf plain text: aquino-3191.txt item: #57 of 173 id: aquino-3192 author: Rev. Fr. John Justice Nwankwo title: ACHIEVING AUTHENTIC POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA: A KWAME NKRUMAH'S PHILOSOPHICALAPPROACH. date: 2022 words: 4818 flesch: 55 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. keywords: africa; colonialism; countries; development; imperialism; nkrumah; philosophy; united; unity cache: aquino-3192.pdf plain text: aquino-3192.txt item: #58 of 173 id: aquino-3193 author: EMMANUEL UGBEDEOJO AMEH, PhD title: IMPACTS OF INSURGENCY ON NIGERIA'S DEMOCRACY date: 2022 words: 5622 flesch: 53 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 “between 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.” keywords: boko; country; democracy; development; government; haram; insurgency; journal; nigeria; people; properties; state; system cache: aquino-3193.pdf plain text: aquino-3193.txt item: #59 of 173 id: aquino-3194 author: INYAMIGIM, Austin Ntol; John Paul ENEMUO, Ph.D. title: THE PROBLEM OF ONE AND MANY: ITS RELATIONSHIP TO AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY. date: 2022 words: 5351 flesch: 62 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. keywords: african; appearance; change; man; philosophy; problem; reality; things; world cache: aquino-3194.pdf plain text: aquino-3194.txt item: #60 of 173 id: aquino-3195 author: OKPANACHI, Elijah Ojochonu title: TERRORISM IN NIGERIAAND THE QUESTION OF RELIGION date: 2022 words: 5104 flesch: 45 summary: Huffman further argued that “those 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” (43). According to Omomia, the current spate of religious terrorism in Nigeria is concealed by the perpetrators as a desire to “fight for God”. keywords: acts; attacks; boko; government; groups; haram; nigeria; page; people; religion; state; terrorism cache: aquino-3195.pdf plain text: aquino-3195.txt item: #61 of 173 id: aquino-3196 author: Stephen Azubuike Oguji, PhD title: A PHILOSOPHICAL INTERROGATION OF THE RATIONALITY OF RELIGIOUS PRAYERS date: 2022 words: 7028 flesch: 52 summary: Keywords: Philosophical, Interrogation, Rationality, Religious prayers Introduction The Concept of Prayer One common feature in most religions, especially the Abrahamic religions – 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. keywords: attributes; change; divine; essence; god; good; nature; petitionary; prayer; way; world cache: aquino-3196.pdf plain text: aquino-3196.txt item: #62 of 173 id: aquino-3197 author: Ikeagwuchi Ikechukwu UKWUOMA; Anayochukwu Kingsley UGWU title: COVID-19 VACCINES, BOOSTERS AND DOSES AND THE QUESTION OF ADDICTION date: 2022 words: 5058 flesch: 58 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. keywords: addiction; boosters; covid-19; disease; doses; effects; taking; vaccinated; vaccines cache: aquino-3197.pdf plain text: aquino-3197.txt item: #63 of 173 id: aquino-3198 author: Omotayo, O. A.; Fasoro, J.O. title: MORAL ISSUES IN GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN YORUBA CULTURE date: 2022 words: 5440 flesch: 56 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. keywords: children; female; gender; human; male; practices; society; widowhood; women; yoruba cache: aquino-3198.pdf plain text: aquino-3198.txt item: #64 of 173 id: aquino-3199 author: AGAMA, Christian Sunday, (PhD); OBIAGWU, Victor Obinna, (PhD) title: PHILOSOPHY, LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SOCIETY IN NIGERIA date: 2022 words: 4503 flesch: 39 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. keywords: digital; information; information society; knowledge; librarianship; libraries; library; nigeria; philosophy; society cache: aquino-3199.pdf plain text: aquino-3199.txt item: #65 of 173 id: aquino-3200 author: Osawaru, Osamede Christopher title: BEAUTY AND COMMUNITY LIVING: AN INSIGHT INTO THE ONTOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF EMOTAN SCULPTED ARTFORM date: 2022 words: 5795 flesch: 49 summary: The saying that states that “uyinmwen o gho ose” 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. keywords: aesthetics; african; art; beauty; benin; character; emotan; oba; ose; people; person; philosophy cache: aquino-3200.pdf plain text: aquino-3200.txt item: #66 of 173 id: aquino-3201 author: Mbachu A. Austin, (PhD) title: GOOD GOVERNANCE, PHILOSOPHY AND LEADERSHIP: A PROSPECTIVE TO AFRICAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT date: 2022 words: 7436 flesch: 45 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. keywords: african; development; good; governance; human; leadership; life; orientation; people; philosophers; philosophy; poverty; society; violence cache: aquino-3201.pdf plain text: aquino-3201.txt item: #67 of 173 id: aquino-3202 author: Orimsan Agboifo PhD; Augusta Ainerhonmiton title: MONOLOGUE AND DIALOGUE AS A SUSTAINABLE INSTRUMENT FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING IN NIGERIA SCHOOLS date: 2022 words: 3372 flesch: 51 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. keywords: curriculum; dialog; education; learning; monolog; student; teacher cache: aquino-3202.pdf plain text: aquino-3202.txt item: #68 of 173 id: aquino-4231 author: Anthony Raphael Etuk, Ph.D.; Emmanuel Akaninyene Okon, PhD; Inwang, Solomon Christopher title: VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE GETTIER CHALLENGE date: 2023 words: 6608 flesch: 45 summary: Virtue epistemology insists that the problem of guaranteeing valid knowledge “can be solved by reference to the possession and application of intellectual virtue” (Ozumba 2015: 172). In simple terms, for virtue epistemology, “a belief is justified, just in case it is has its source in intellectual virtue (Sosa 1991: 189). keywords: belief; epistemology; gettier; intellectual; knowledge; sosa; truth; virtue; virtue epistemology cache: aquino-4231.pdf plain text: aquino-4231.txt item: #69 of 173 id: aquino-4232 author: Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu, PhD; Mike Boni Bazza, PhD title: RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE AND CO-EXISTENCE IN NIGERIA date: 2023 words: 6706 flesch: 52 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. keywords: christians; existence; journal; kanu; muslims; nigeria; peace; people; press; religion; state; sulaiman; university; violence cache: aquino-4232.pdf plain text: aquino-4232.txt item: #70 of 173 id: aquino-4233 author: Marcellinus Chigozie Obi title: A PHILOSOPHICAL RECONSIDERATION OF NIETZSCHEAN WILL-TO-POWER AS WILL-TO-WIN date: 2023 words: 4608 flesch: 65 summary: For instance, in The Will to Power, he says that “Life is will to power” and that “the only reality is the will to grow stronger of every center of force – not self-preservation, but the will to appropriate, dominate, increase, grow stronger” (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. keywords: beings; desire; drive; nietzsche; power; win cache: aquino-4233.pdf plain text: aquino-4233.txt item: #71 of 173 id: aquino-4234 author: Ejinike Emmanuel Umeh; Ifechi J. Ndianefo, PhD title: THOMAS HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR NIGERIA STATE date: 2023 words: 5055 flesch: 54 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 – 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. keywords: citizens; hobbes; leviathan; leviathan state; nature; nigeria state; power; security; state cache: aquino-4234.pdf plain text: aquino-4234.txt item: #72 of 173 id: aquino-4235 author: Aloysius Uchechukwu ONAH title: THE PHILOSOPHER AND REVOLUTIONARY ATTEMPTS IN NIGERIA date: 2023 words: 5175 flesch: 53 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. keywords: attempts; change; human; lamb; new; nigeria; order; people; philosopher; political; revolution; society cache: aquino-4235.pdf plain text: aquino-4235.txt item: #73 of 173 id: aquino-4236 author: Peter Iorhom Akunoko PhD title: THE ALTRUISTIC QUESTION AND ALFRED SCHULTZ'S DEFINITION OF HUMAN ACTION date: 2023 words: 4201 flesch: 59 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. keywords: action; altruism; altruistic; comte; rand; schutz; self cache: aquino-4236.pdf plain text: aquino-4236.txt item: #74 of 173 id: aquino-4237 author: Innocent I. Enweh title: WOMANHOOD AND PANDEMICS: THE AFRICAN CASE date: 2023 words: 6288 flesch: 49 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 “a gender policy to direct its actions on handling gender related health concerns” (National Gender Policy: 2015, 11). keywords: africa; covid-19; gender; health; impact; outcomes; pandemic; policy; resilience; roles; socio; womanhood; women cache: aquino-4237.pdf plain text: aquino-4237.txt item: #75 of 173 id: aquino-4238 author: Omorovie Ikeke; Toma Brume title: THE CHALLENGE OF CHRISTIAN FEMINISM IN URHOBOLAND date: 2023 words: 8568 flesch: 61 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. keywords: bible; christian; culture; discrimination; education; feminism; gender; human; jesus; paper; rights; society; urhoboland; women cache: aquino-4238.pdf plain text: aquino-4238.txt item: #76 of 173 id: aquino-4239 author: Nkereuwem Dominic Ekpo title: CAN DESCARTES EPISTEMOLOGY JUSTIFIABLY ANSWER THE SKEPTICS' ARGUMENTS? date: 2023 words: 5175 flesch: 60 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 “any philosophical attitude which expresses doubt as to the possibility of certain knowledge”. keywords: arguments; cogito; descartes; dream; foundation; knowledge; philosophy; skepticism cache: aquino-4239.pdf plain text: aquino-4239.txt item: #77 of 173 id: aquino-4240 author: Nnajiofo Osita; Unadike Chimezie title: IMMANUEL KANT'S CONCEPT OF HUMAN DIGNITY: A PANECEA FOR POLICE BRUTALITY IN NIGERIA date: 2023 words: 4471 flesch: 59 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. keywords: beings; brutality; dignity; end; force; human; kant; nigerian; police cache: aquino-4240.pdf plain text: aquino-4240.txt item: #78 of 173 id: aquino-4241 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 words: 171 flesch: -92 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 keywords: page cache: aquino-4241.pdf plain text: aquino-4241.txt item: #79 of 173 id: aquino-4242 author: C. N. Ogugua; P. C. Okoli, PhD title: APPLICATION OF STATE-CENTRIC SECURITY APPROACH TO THE SECURITY CHALLENGES IN THE SOUTHEAST date: 2023 words: 5820 flesch: 50 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. keywords: government; herdsmen; nigeria; people; rights; security; southeast; sovereignty; state; theory; zone cache: aquino-4242.pdf plain text: aquino-4242.txt item: #80 of 173 id: aquino-4243 author: Ikechukwu Monday Osebor, PhD title: IS PET-KEEPING A VIOLATION OF ANIMAL RIGHTS? A CONSEQUENTIALIST STANDPOINT date: 2023 words: 3960 flesch: 50 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. keywords: animals; ethics; keeping; monday; pet; pets; philosophy; rights; telos; utilitarianism cache: aquino-4243.pdf plain text: aquino-4243.txt item: #81 of 173 id: aquino-4244 author: Jude Chibuzo Udenkwo, PhD. title: GLOBALIZATION AND AFRICAN COMMON NORMS: A PHILOSOPHICAL INTROSPECTION date: 2023 words: 3421 flesch: 52 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…' (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. keywords: africa; globalization; language; norms; page; societies; trade; women; world cache: aquino-4244.pdf plain text: aquino-4244.txt item: #82 of 173 id: aquino-4245 author: Suleiman Mohammed Evuti title: AN APPRAISAL OF THE IMPACT OF INSURGENCY ON THE CHANGING PATTERN OF NIGERIA FOREIGN POLICY date: 2023 words: 6863 flesch: 47 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. keywords: africa; arms; boko; conflict; country; government; group; haram; insurgency; international; military; nigeria; policy; state; terrorism cache: aquino-4245.pdf plain text: aquino-4245.txt item: #83 of 173 id: aquino-4342 author: Ike Odimegwu; Christopher Ogugua title: WHAT DO WE DO WITH AFRICAN COMMUNALISM? date: 2024 words: 5417 flesch: 45 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. keywords: african; communalism; community; people; philosophy; scholars; societies; society cache: aquino-4342.pdf plain text: aquino-4342.txt item: #84 of 173 id: aquino-4343 author: Prof. Chiedozie Okoro; Sirajudeen Owosho, Ph.D. title: AN ANALYSIS OF THE KANTIAN FOUNDATION OF HUSSERLIAN TRANSCENDENTAL PHENOMENOLOGY date: 2024 words: 5267 flesch: 47 summary: Although, it is possible to interpret Kantian “things in themselves” in a way compatible with Husserl transcendental philosophy, there is still the strong suggestion that they have a causal role in Kant’s epistemology, which Husserl thinks is obscured. With regards to transcendental phenomenology, this paper aims to analyse Kant and Husserl’s 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’s transcendental phenomenology. keywords: husserl; kant; knowledge; phenomenology; philosophy; transcendental; world cache: aquino-4343.pdf plain text: aquino-4343.txt item: #85 of 173 id: aquino-4344 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 words: 5384 flesch: 47 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. keywords: country; democracy; democratic; development; dichotomy; ethnicity; issue; nigeria; politics; religion; state cache: aquino-4344.pdf plain text: aquino-4344.txt item: #86 of 173 id: aquino-4345 author: Ebo, Henry Obinze, PhD; Okewu, Michael Peter title: JEAN PAUL SARTRE’S ABSOLUTE FREEDOM AND ITS ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS date: 2024 words: 6597 flesch: 67 summary: Human freedom is seen by Sartre in terms of negation, nihilation and nothingness. 40 Absolutism of Freedom in Sartre’s Existentialism Sartre is usually misunderstood as having an exaggerated view of human freedom, no doubt because of the claims in the “Existentialism and Humanism” lecture that there is no determinism; we are free, we are freedom, we are condemned to be free. keywords: euthanasia; existence; freedom; god; life; man; paul; sartre; suicide cache: aquino-4345.pdf plain text: aquino-4345.txt item: #87 of 173 id: aquino-4346 author: TITUS ALIYU, Ph.D. title: CHRISTIANITY AND MARXISM: THE CHURCH’S VIEW date: 2024 words: 4906 flesch: 61 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. keywords: christianity; church; god; humanism; life; man; marxism; religion; world cache: aquino-4346.pdf plain text: aquino-4346.txt item: #88 of 173 id: aquino-4347 author: Ratzinger E. E. Nwobodo, PhD title: KARL POPPER’S PRINCIPLE OF VERISIMILITUDE: A PANACEA TO ISLAMIC FANATICISM IN NIGERIA date: 2024 words: 8151 flesch: 56 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. keywords: faith; fanaticism; islamic; journal; karl; knowledge; nigeria; popper; religion; truth; verisimilitude cache: aquino-4347.pdf plain text: aquino-4347.txt item: #89 of 173 id: aquino-4348 author: Florence Eke Adejoh; Anthony Chukwudi Areji, Ph.D.; Jetty Joe Odey title: AN APPRAISAL OF KWASI WIREDU’S CONCEPTUAL DECOLONIZATION date: 2024 words: 5582 flesch: 36 summary: The study establishes that the negative programme of Wiredu’s 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 “resources” of African conceptual frameworks in philosophical exercises or reflections. keywords: african; curriculum; decolonization; injustice; language; philosophy; thought; universities; wiredu cache: aquino-4348.pdf plain text: aquino-4348.txt item: #90 of 173 id: aquino-4349 author: Agu, Anthony Maria; Rev. Fr. Prof. Bonachristus Umeogu title: COSMOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF RELIGION AND SCIENCE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS date: 2024 words: 8604 flesch: 48 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’s expanding universe evolved asymptotically from a closed Einstein’s universe and so did not have a definite origin in time. keywords: bang; big; christian; cosmology; creation; god; infinite; matter; religion; science; theory; universe; world cache: aquino-4349.pdf plain text: aquino-4349.txt item: #91 of 173 id: aquino-4350 author: Emenike PeterSixtus; Anthony Izuchukwu Ezeobele title: POLITICAL AWARENESS AND PARTICIPATION IN DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS: A BEDROCK FOR SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY? date: 2024 words: 7455 flesch: 38 summary: Political awareness leads to readiness for political participation. Keywords: Political Awareness, Political Participation, Rendering Technical, Social Sustainability, Inclusion. keywords: awareness; community; development; individual; intervention; journal; knowledge; participation; people; politics; social; society; understanding cache: aquino-4350.pdf plain text: aquino-4350.txt item: #92 of 173 id: aquino-4351 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 words: 7594 flesch: 42 summary: Women apprenticeship in recent times has been converted to “Imu Olu aka”. Gender Dynamics in the Igbo Apprenticeship System: Exploring Women's … - 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. keywords: apprenticeship; apprenticeship system; business; dynamics; entrepreneurship; gender; igbo; knowledge; nigeria; opportunities; people; skills; system; trade; women cache: aquino-4351.pdf plain text: aquino-4351.txt item: #93 of 173 id: aquino-4352 author: AWINGS YUSUF SULE title: IMPACT OF CHURCH PERSECUTION IN NORTHERN PART OF NIGERIA date: 2024 words: 4978 flesch: 50 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. keywords: boko; christians; church; government; haram; impact; nigeria; northern; northern nigeria; people; persecution; state cache: aquino-4352.pdf plain text: aquino-4352.txt item: #94 of 173 id: aquino-4353 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 words: 5082 flesch: 39 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. keywords: development; goals; government; interest; national; nigeria; objectives; party; rivalry; system cache: aquino-4353.pdf plain text: aquino-4353.txt item: #95 of 173 id: aquino-4354 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 words: 9451 flesch: 65 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. keywords: 30:1; alliance; biblesoft; egypt; god; help; isaiah; israel; judah; lord; people; qal; translated; trust; verb; verse; word cache: aquino-4354.pdf plain text: aquino-4354.txt item: #96 of 173 id: aquino-4355 author: DANIEL JAMES TALI, Ph.D. title: DRUGS COMMONLY ABUSED AROUND THE WORLD date: 2024 words: 5124 flesch: 66 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. keywords: abuse; brecher; brunn; chinedu; countries; drug; drug abuse; ebie; matowo; ongwae; world cache: aquino-4355.pdf plain text: aquino-4355.txt item: #97 of 173 id: aquino-4356 author: Hyginus Chibuike EZEBUILO; Asso. Prof Chinyere T. OJIAKOR title: THE HUMEAN VIEW ON MIRACLE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS date: 2024 words: 3501 flesch: 51 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. keywords: hume; laws; miracle; nature; testimony; view cache: aquino-4356.pdf plain text: aquino-4356.txt item: #98 of 173 id: aquino-5028 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 words: 6701 flesch: 54 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. keywords: artificial; care; carol; development; ethics; gilligan; human; implications; intelligence; morality; women cache: aquino-5028.pdf plain text: aquino-5028.txt item: #99 of 173 id: aquino-5029 author: John Tor Tsuwa; Terver Akase title: INTERROGATING THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON AFRICAN POLITICS date: 2024 words: 8840 flesch: 49 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. keywords: access; africa; democracy; election; government; impact; information; internet; journal; media; nigeria; page; people; platforms; politics; president; society; twitter; use cache: aquino-5029.pdf plain text: aquino-5029.txt item: #100 of 173 id: aquino-5030 author: ONAH, Aloysius Uchechukwu title: ARCHITECTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT: AFRICAN CONSIDERATION OF SPATIAL AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT date: 2024 words: 5771 flesch: 53 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. keywords: architecture; beings; building; construction; environment; house; human; igbo; nature; people; plan; use cache: aquino-5030.pdf plain text: aquino-5030.txt item: #101 of 173 id: aquino-5031 author: Elijah Okon John, Prof.; Ekpema Udofia Nkanang, Ph.D title: DEMOCRACY AND AFRICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS date: 2024 words: 6153 flesch: 42 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. keywords: africa; citizens; democracy; development; freedom; government; language; people; politics; power; problems; society; system cache: aquino-5031.pdf plain text: aquino-5031.txt item: #102 of 173 id: aquino-5032 author: Ukegbu, Ezionyinye Ebere, PhD; Nwala, KenethTochukwu, PhD title: THE ROLE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA, 1999 – 2020 date: 2024 words: 4171 flesch: 20 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. keywords: data; decision; ict; information; management; monitoring; nigeria; systems; technology; water cache: aquino-5032.pdf plain text: aquino-5032.txt item: #103 of 173 id: aquino-5033 author: Ahana Chukwuebuka E. title: MORAL REALISM AND SAME SEX MARRIAGE DEBATE date: 2024 words: 8515 flesch: 55 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. keywords: argument; children; couples; law; man; marriage; procreation; rights; sex; sex couples; sex marriage; union cache: aquino-5033.pdf plain text: aquino-5033.txt item: #104 of 173 id: aquino-5034 author: Nicholas Onyemechi Alumona, PhD title: ON THE HEAVY BURDEN OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA date: 2024 words: 6066 flesch: 43 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. keywords: african; alumona; burden; countries; cultures; development; market; people; philosophy; values; world cache: aquino-5034.pdf plain text: aquino-5034.txt item: #105 of 173 id: aquino-5035 author: Mark Omorovie Ikeke, PhD title: THE DUTY OF THE NIGERIAN STATE TO SAFEGUARD THE NIGERIAN ENVIRONMENT: AN ETHICAL PERSPECTIVE date: 2024 words: 5865 flesch: 52 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 keywords: constitution; duty; environment; government; human; nigeria; people; rights; state cache: aquino-5035.pdf plain text: aquino-5035.txt item: #106 of 173 id: aquino-5036 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 words: 5353 flesch: 53 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. keywords: boko; corruption; governance; government; haramization; institutions; leadership; national; nigeria; people; religion; state cache: aquino-5036.pdf plain text: aquino-5036.txt item: #107 of 173 id: aquino-5037 author: Prof. Elijah Okon John; Godwin Adahada title: AN EXAMINATION OF LEVINAS' NOTION OF RESPONSIBILITY AND HUMAN SITUATION IN NIGERIA date: 2024 words: 10465 flesch: 47 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. keywords: contemporary; ethical; ethics; government; human; levinas; nigeria; notion; page; people; philosophy; relationship; responsibility; right; self; situation; subject; work cache: aquino-5037.pdf plain text: aquino-5037.txt item: #108 of 173 id: aquino-5038 author: AKANDE Michael Aina, Ph.D title: THE USE OF FEAR IN ANIMAL RIGHTS DISCOURSE: AN ETHICAL PRAGMATIST APPROACH date: 2024 words: 5385 flesch: 56 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. keywords: animals; cruelty; fear; human; life; love; philosophy; rights; strategy; use; yoruba cache: aquino-5038.pdf plain text: aquino-5038.txt item: #109 of 173 id: aquino-5039 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 words: 6389 flesch: 57 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? keywords: characters; criticism; death; horseman; king; olunde; pilkings; research; society; soyinka; theory cache: aquino-5039.pdf plain text: aquino-5039.txt item: #110 of 173 id: aquino-5040 author: Fasiku, Gbenga Cornelius, PhD; Okwute, Dorcas title: NAVIGATING THE COMPLEXITIES OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND THE SECURITY NEEDS OF THE STATE date: 2024 words: 4589 flesch: 45 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. keywords: freedom; government; individual; liberty; press; rights; security; state; university cache: aquino-5040.pdf plain text: aquino-5040.txt item: #111 of 173 id: aquino-5041 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 words: 4262 flesch: 39 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. keywords: language; language translation; meaning; philosophy; relations; source; synthetic; target; text; translation; web cache: aquino-5041.pdf plain text: aquino-5041.txt item: #112 of 173 id: aquino-5042 author: Dr. James N. Nnoruga title: THE CONCEPT OF DEATH IN THE CHANGING WORLD OF AFRICAN WORLDVIEW date: 2024 words: 6364 flesch: 67 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. keywords: african; burial; ceremonies; dead; death; funeral; people; person; world cache: aquino-5042.pdf plain text: aquino-5042.txt item: #113 of 173 id: aquino-5043 author: Anas Elochukwu title: NAPEP: A TRI-CAUSAL EXPLANATION OF WHY IT FAILED date: 2024 words: 3873 flesch: 51 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. keywords: bank; country; development; eradication; napep; national; nigeria; poverty; programme; reduction; world cache: aquino-5043.pdf plain text: aquino-5043.txt item: #114 of 173 id: aquino-5044 author: Victor Ogheneochuko Jeko., Ph.D; Odigie Ndidi Joseph title: AN EVALUATION OF GLOBAL WARMING AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS date: 2024 words: 6079 flesch: 39 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 “whereas environmentalists share a post-Enlightenment belief in the uniqueness of the human perspective on the world—that is, they place human beings above, or outside, nature—ecologists 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”. keywords: ecologism; environment; environmentalism; ethics; graham; hoffman; human; nature; warming; world cache: aquino-5044.pdf plain text: aquino-5044.txt item: #115 of 173 id: aquino-6114 author: Modestus Anyaegbu, PhD title: JACQUES DERRIDAAND THE DECONSTRUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY IN SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA date: 2024 words: 6747 flesch: 53 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. keywords: abiama; christianity; christians; chukwu; deconstruction; derrida; faith; god; jesus; new; nigeria; people; religion cache: aquino-6114.pdf plain text: aquino-6114.txt item: #116 of 173 id: aquino-6115 author: Idubamo Daniel Agbada title: COMMUNITARIANISM IN ACHEBE'S ARROW OF GOD date: 2024 words: 6660 flesch: 59 summary: Keywords: Arrow of GodCommunitarianism, individual, Achebe, community, INTRODUCTION “Communitarianism 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.” 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. keywords: achebe; arrow; communitarianism; community; ezeulu; god; individual; people; society; umuaro cache: aquino-6115.pdf plain text: aquino-6115.txt item: #117 of 173 id: aquino-6116 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 words: 4555 flesch: 46 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. keywords: african; cybercrime; fraud; internet; money; murder; practices; ritual; wealth; yahoo cache: aquino-6116.pdf plain text: aquino-6116.txt item: #118 of 173 id: aquino-6117 author: Benjamin Chukwunonso Nwokocha; Nnatuanya, Emmanuel Chinedu title: AFRICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE CHALLENGES OF EUROPEAN PERIODIZATION: SETTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT date: 2024 words: 3839 flesch: 50 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. keywords: africa; continent; dike; european; historiography; history; past; periodization cache: aquino-6117.pdf plain text: aquino-6117.txt item: #119 of 173 id: aquino-6118 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 words: 7987 flesch: 42 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 £20 flat rate policy without any circumspection. keywords: biafra; country; eastern; federal; government; groups; igbo; indifferentism; national; nigeria; people; politics; region; socio; state; unity; war cache: aquino-6118.pdf plain text: aquino-6118.txt item: #120 of 173 id: aquino-6119 author: Celestine Edozie Anyaorah, Ph.; Solomon Eyesan, Ph.D title: AUTONOMY'S DOMINION: RONALD DWORKIN'S ARGUMENTS ON ABORTION date: 2024 words: 5726 flesch: 59 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, “The Limits of Integrity,” 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. keywords: abortion; dworkin; foetus; god; human; law; life; right cache: aquino-6119.pdf plain text: aquino-6119.txt item: #121 of 173 id: aquino-6120 author: Justus Isaac Ph. D title: MORALITY AND EDUCATION: THE PRECURSOR FOR SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION date: 2024 words: 4330 flesch: 51 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. keywords: education; experience; good; morality; nigeria; people; reconstruction; society; values cache: aquino-6120.pdf plain text: aquino-6120.txt item: #122 of 173 id: aquino-6121 author: Rev. Fr. John Justice Nwankwo, Ph.D title: METAPHYSICAL DUALISM IN EBOH: A PHILOSOPHICAL EXPOSÉ date: 2024 words: 5967 flesch: 69 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. keywords: death; dualism; eboh; human; life; living; philosophy; soul cache: aquino-6121.pdf plain text: aquino-6121.txt item: #123 of 173 id: aquino-6122 author: Benedict Michael, PhD title: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF DISAGREEMENT: HUME, KANT, AND THE CURRENT RELEVANCE date: 2024 words: 5912 flesch: 43 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. keywords: disagreement; epistemology; evidence; experience; hume; kant; reason cache: aquino-6122.pdf plain text: aquino-6122.txt item: #124 of 173 id: aquino-6123 author: Owere A. Ejidje ILIARO, PhD title: PHILOSOPHY, POVERTY AND THE RE-MAKING OF THE NIGERIA NATION date: 2024 words: 3585 flesch: 54 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. keywords: citizens; development; disciplines; economy; nigeria; philosophy; thinking cache: aquino-6123.pdf plain text: aquino-6123.txt item: #125 of 173 id: aquino-6125 author: Dr. Christian Maduabuchi Umeanwe title: EXPLORING THE INTERSECTIONS OF FAITH AND REASON: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTEGRATING RELIGION AND SCIENCE date: 2024 words: 4889 flesch: 38 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. keywords: challenges; faith; knowledge; philosophy; press; religion; science; understanding; university; view cache: aquino-6125.pdf plain text: aquino-6125.txt item: #126 of 173 id: aquino-6126 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 words: 6817 flesch: 65 summary: They are spirit, Christianity, socio- spiritual, transformation, animation, world, and Gaudium et Spes (GS). The final term that requires definition here is “world.” keywords: catholic; christianity; church; god; jesus; life; people; spirit; work; world cache: aquino-6126.pdf plain text: aquino-6126.txt item: #127 of 173 id: aquino-6127 author: Valentine Ojiegbe title: RETHINKING JUSTICE IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS: A PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY date: 2024 words: 4133 flesch: 32 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. keywords: development; enforcement; environmental; human; justice; laws; nature; regulations; rights; value cache: aquino-6127.pdf plain text: aquino-6127.txt item: #128 of 173 id: aquino-6128 author: Peter Iorhom Akunoko, Ph.D title: UNDERSTANDING HEIDEGGER'S ONTOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE I N RELATION TO TEMPORALITY AND TIME date: 2024 words: 4928 flesch: 51 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. keywords: beings; dasein; heidegger; temporality; time cache: aquino-6128.pdf plain text: aquino-6128.txt item: #129 of 173 id: aquino-6129 author: Afunugo, Kenechi Nnaemeka title: XENOPHOBIAAND NATIONAL IDENTITY: A STUDY AND MORAL EVALUATION OF CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN-NIGERIAN CONFLICTS ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS date: 2024 words: 5632 flesch: 37 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: “South 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. keywords: africa; africans; conflicts; identity; media; nigeria; nigerians; online; south; south africa cache: aquino-6129.pdf plain text: aquino-6129.txt item: #130 of 173 id: aquino-6130 author: CN Ogugua; Ike Odimegwu title: DOES INTERNATIONAL LAW BAN THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION? A PHILOSOPHICALAPPRAISAL date: 2024 words: 6857 flesch: 45 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. keywords: charter; colonial; law; peace; right; secession; state; theory cache: aquino-6130.pdf plain text: aquino-6130.txt item: #131 of 173 id: aquino-6132 author: Ikea, Chidimma S., Ph.D title: THE ETHICS OF NUDITY AND WOMAN DIGNITY IN THE MEDIA date: 2024 words: 3422 flesch: 46 summary: Abstract This paper looks at the ethics of nudity and woman dignity in the contemporary society. Keywords: Nudity, woman, woman dignity, ethics, media. keywords: body; dignity; female; issue; media; nudity; society; women; words cache: aquino-6132.pdf plain text: aquino-6132.txt item: #132 of 173 id: aquino-6133 author: Jude I. Onebunne; Sylvia Chinazom Ezeaka title: CRITICALAPPRECIATION OF AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AND AFRICAN LITERATURE date: 2024 words: 8375 flesch: 42 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. keywords: african; appreciation; god; handwriting; history; literacy; literature; movement; n.d; onebunne; philosophy; religion; theology; tradition; works; writing cache: aquino-6133.pdf plain text: aquino-6133.txt item: #133 of 173 id: aquino-6796 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 words: 6271 flesch: 63 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. keywords: change; child; culture; family; identity; igbo; language; lineage; people; surnames; titles cache: aquino-6796.pdf plain text: aquino-6796.txt item: #134 of 173 id: aquino-6797 author: Okewu Michael Peter title: THE DIGNITY OF LIFE IN THE LIGHT OF ALBERT SCHWEITZER’S PHILOSOPHY OF REVERENCE FOR LIFE date: 2025 words: 4401 flesch: 34 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). keywords: beings; life; living; philosophy; reverence; schweitzer cache: aquino-6797.pdf plain text: aquino-6797.txt item: #135 of 173 id: aquino-6798 author: Remigius Achinike Obah PhD; Victor Chizi Ihunda PhD title: IS TRADITIONAL EPISTEMOLOGY ANDROCENTRIC? A QUESTION AND RESPONSE IN THE LIGHT OF JANE DURAN’S FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGY date: 2025 words: 5706 flesch: 39 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—feminist 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 keywords: duran; epistemology; feminist; knowledge; nature; philosophy; women cache: aquino-6798.pdf plain text: aquino-6798.txt item: #136 of 173 id: aquino-6799 author: Jude Chibuzo Udenkwo title: OCHICHI NCHIGBU AND SIT-TIGHTISM IN CONTEMPORARY LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA: A PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATION date: 2025 words: 5364 flesch: 49 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 ‘why and how’ African dictators continue to have a stronghold to political power against the will of the ruled has been recurring in a consistent consistency. keywords: africa; democracy; dictatorship; leaders; nchigbu; ochichi; philosophy; politics; power; sit; society; states; tightism cache: aquino-6799.pdf plain text: aquino-6799.txt item: #137 of 173 id: aquino-6800 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 words: 6348 flesch: 37 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. keywords: access; african; agoa; countries; economic; ecowas; exports; growth; market; products; states; trade; west cache: aquino-6800.pdf plain text: aquino-6800.txt item: #138 of 173 id: aquino-6801 author: Aguinam, Callistus C. ; Asadu, Godfrey C. PhD. title: EPISTEMICIDE AND THE CHALLENGES OF DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: RETHINKING KNOWLEDGE FOR PROGRESS date: 2025 words: 4430 flesch: 52 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. keywords: african; development; epistemicide; knowledge; level; nations; people; way cache: aquino-6801.pdf plain text: aquino-6801.txt item: #139 of 173 id: aquino-6802 author: Evaristus Ifeanacho, PhD title: “ENTERING THROUGH THE NARROW GATE” (MATT. 7:13): TOWARDS REINVIGORATING THE SPIRITUAL COMMITMENT OF THE NIGERIAN CATHOLIC KNIGHTS date: 2025 words: 5587 flesch: 66 summary: According to the Catechism of Catholic Church, “the way of Christ ‘leads to life’; a contrary way ‘leads to destruction’ (Mt 7:13). Keywords: Laity, Catholic Church, knighthood, spiritual commitment, evangelization. keywords: catholic; christ; church; faithful; holy; knights; laity; life; order; way cache: aquino-6802.pdf plain text: aquino-6802.txt item: #140 of 173 id: aquino-6803 author: Stephen Emmanuel; Fasiku, Gbenga Cornelius PhD title: THE MEDIA, TRUTH AND THE ETHICS OF PUBLIC OPINION IN THE AGE OF PROPAGANDA date: 2025 words: 4008 flesch: 38 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’s role in shaping public opinion. keywords: information; media; news; opinion; platforms; public; truth cache: aquino-6803.pdf plain text: aquino-6803.txt item: #141 of 173 id: aquino-6804 author: Dr. Uchenna Nympha Nkama title: NAVIGATING THE INTERSECTION OF CULTURAL NORMS AND FEMINIST IDEALS IN CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S ‘WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS’: LESSONS FOR NIGERIAN FEMINISTS date: 2025 words: 4861 flesch: 33 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). keywords: adichie; equality; feminist; gender; male; nigeria; norms; roles; women; work cache: aquino-6804.pdf plain text: aquino-6804.txt item: #142 of 173 id: aquino-6805 author: Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi, Ph.D. title: ENGAGING THE IDEA OF SUSTAINABLE WELL-BEING THROUGH THE IDEA OF RELATIONAL WELL-BEING date: 2025 words: 7249 flesch: 48 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… 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. keywords: demands; group; human; idea; individual; life; personality; psychological; society; wellbeing cache: aquino-6805.pdf plain text: aquino-6805.txt item: #143 of 173 id: aquino-6806 author: Ishaya rBunu (Ph.D Fellow, UNN) ; Habila Katuka, Ph.D; Ibrahim Sersinyang title: THE PARADIGM OF TERRORISTS’OPERATIONS IN TARABA STATE, THE PROMISSORY NOTE OF THE LAW, THE FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE ROLE OF RELIGION date: 2025 words: 6161 flesch: 53 summary: 107 THE PARADIGM OF TERRORISTS’OPERATIONS 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. keywords: activities; banditry; boko; government; haram; national; nigeria; people; security; state; taraba; taraba state; terrorism; vol cache: aquino-6806.pdf plain text: aquino-6806.txt item: #144 of 173 id: aquino-6807 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 words: 4900 flesch: 38 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. keywords: candidates; christian; council; leaders; leadership; muslim; needs; nigeria; northeastern; politicians; region; religion cache: aquino-6807.pdf plain text: aquino-6807.txt item: #145 of 173 id: aquino-6808 author: JOHNSON UGOCHUKWU OFOEGBU PHD title: RETHINKING THE IMPERATIVE OF TEACHERS' COMPETENCES IN INCLUSIVE EDUCATION: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH date: 2025 words: 2621 flesch: 33 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. keywords: development; education; experiences; learning; needs; phenomenology; teachers cache: aquino-6808.pdf plain text: aquino-6808.txt item: #146 of 173 id: aquino-6809 author: Emmanuel Adetokunbo OGUNDELE title: ETHNIC CHAUVINISM AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: AN APPRAISAL. date: 2025 words: 4155 flesch: 39 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. keywords: chauvinism; conflict; development; ethnicity; group; individuals; national; nigeria; patriotism cache: aquino-6809.pdf plain text: aquino-6809.txt item: #147 of 173 id: aquino-6810 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 words: 3092 flesch: 50 summary: Peace education in nigeria, a practical antidote to violence… 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. keywords: education; nigeria; peace; peace education; schools; society; violence; war cache: aquino-6810.pdf plain text: aquino-6810.txt item: #148 of 173 id: aquino-6811 author: Omorovie Ikeke; Kenneth N Agetue title: ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AS A THREAT TO HUMAN SECURITY IN URHOBOLAND date: 2025 words: 5278 flesch: 44 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. keywords: delta; environmental; gas; health; life; nigeria; oil; people; pollution; security; urhoboland cache: aquino-6811.pdf plain text: aquino-6811.txt item: #149 of 173 id: aquino-6812 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 words: 5126 flesch: 43 summary: Isaac & Benedict The Role Of Boundary Situations In Karl Jaspers' Epistemology… 169 THE IMPLICATIONS OF JASPERS’ 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. keywords: boundary; existence; existential; individuals; jaspers; situations cache: aquino-6812.pdf plain text: aquino-6812.txt item: #150 of 173 id: aquino-6813 author: Victor Ogheneochuko JEKO., Ph.D title: THE NEXUS OF PHILOSOPHY AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR NIGERIA’S DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENCE date: 2025 words: 6763 flesch: 43 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’s quest for national development. keywords: corruption; country; development; good; governance; human; journal; leadership; national; national development; nigeria; philosophy; society cache: aquino-6813.pdf plain text: aquino-6813.txt item: #151 of 173 id: aquino-6814 author: IKORO, ONYINYECHI STELLA Ph.D title: ICONS, INDEXES AND SYMBOLS IN CHIMAMANDAADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS: A SEMIOTIC APPROACH date: 2025 words: 7736 flesch: 67 summary: Examples of symptomatic indexical are: Papa’s voice was low, very low, … face looked swollen already, with pus-tipped rashes spread across (pp. 14, 23), …shocked eyes begged him to seal his mouth (p. 14), Papa swayed from side to side (p. 15), Papa’s breathing was always noisy, but now he panted as if he were out of breath (p. 23), …startling me although her Igbo words were low and calming. 11, 14, 15), …the water-colour painting of a woman with a child…the Virgin and Child oil Painting (p. 126), Jaja turned to the statue of the preening lion (p. 140), …and I saw her, the Blessed Virgin: an image in the pale sun, a red glow on the back of my hand (p. 278), … the mask (p. 94).…Fela, Osadebe and Onyeka (musical icons) (p. 126 ), …huge rosary with blue beads and a metal crucifix (p. 132). keywords: family; father; fear; figurines; hibiscus; icons; indexes; jaja; kambili; mama; papa; red; signs; symbols cache: aquino-6814.pdf plain text: aquino-6814.txt item: #152 of 173 id: aquino-6815 author: Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu, PhD title: IGBO-AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY OF BEING AND CATEGORIES OF BEING date: 2025 words: 5788 flesch: 66 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. keywords: african; concept; edeh; force; god; igbo; kanu; metaphysics; philosophy cache: aquino-6815.pdf plain text: aquino-6815.txt item: #153 of 173 id: aquino-7647 author: Modestus Anyaegbu PhD title: HEIDEGGER AND THE EFFECTS OF WESTERN TECHNOLOGY ON AFRICAN VALUES date: 2025 words: 5044 flesch: 52 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 “reserve,” a “standing-reserve” ready at hand. keywords: african; heidegger; human; man; nature; technology; values; world cache: aquino-7647.pdf plain text: aquino-7647.txt item: #154 of 173 id: aquino-7648 author: Ovwata Success Onojieruo title: METAMODERNISM THROUGH THE LENSES OF EPISTEMOLOGY date: 2025 words: 7241 flesch: 42 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. keywords: culture; epistemology; form; human; idea; knowledge; metamodernism; new; philosophy; postmodernism; reality; social cache: aquino-7648.pdf plain text: aquino-7648.txt item: #155 of 173 id: aquino-7649 author: Ovwata Success Onojieruo; Idubamo Daniel Agbada title: METAMODERNISM AND THE QUESTION OF PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE date: 2025 words: 7713 flesch: 40 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. keywords: confidentiality; data; digital; government; individual; information; metamodernism; privacy; private; question; right; social; society cache: aquino-7649.pdf plain text: aquino-7649.txt item: #156 of 173 id: aquino-7650 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 words: 4107 flesch: 43 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. keywords: algorithms; butler; gender; identities; identity; performativity; press; space; systems; technology cache: aquino-7650.pdf plain text: aquino-7650.txt item: #157 of 173 id: aquino-7651 author: Uchenna Ofondu E. title: PENSION PAYMENT IN NIGERIA CHALLENGES AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS date: 2025 words: 4246 flesch: 60 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. keywords: government; nigeria; payment; pension; pensioners; people; retirees; service; worker cache: aquino-7651.pdf plain text: aquino-7651.txt item: #158 of 173 id: aquino-7652 author: Philip Osarobu ISANBOR; Paul Olorunsola FOLORUNSO title: NIGERIAN SURVIVAL IN THE EMERGING ‘SAPA’ CULTURE AND ADMINISTRATION THE MARXIAN INTERROGATION date: 2025 words: 5821 flesch: 49 summary: Marxism’s 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. keywords: class; culture; isanbor; marx; nigeria; philosophy; production; sapa; society; struggle; youths cache: aquino-7652.pdf plain text: aquino-7652.txt item: #159 of 173 id: aquino-7653 author: Justus Isaac Ph. D title: DEMOCRACY AS A SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA A CRITICAL ANALYSIS date: 2025 words: 4579 flesch: 55 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. keywords: democracy; democratic; governance; nigeria; people; power; rule; system cache: aquino-7653.pdf plain text: aquino-7653.txt item: #160 of 173 id: aquino-7654 author: KENECHI NNAEMEKA AFUNUGO; CHUKWUKAMMA, KINGSLEY .E. title: DEFORESTATION IN AWKA METROPOLIS VIOLATING AFRICAN ECO-THEOLOGY AND HUMAN WELLBEING date: 2025 words: 7923 flesch: 27 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. keywords: african; anambra; awka; deforestation; earth; eco; environment; erosion; forests; health; igbo; land; loss; metropolis; nature; nigeria; state; theology cache: aquino-7654.pdf plain text: aquino-7654.txt item: #161 of 173 id: aquino-7655 author: Iwunze Davidson Chimezie (Ph.D) title: OPEN WOUND AND THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR A METAPHORICAL READING OF KAINENE’S LOSS IN CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE’S HALF OF A YELLOW SUN. date: 2025 words: 5200 flesch: 55 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. keywords: adichie; civil; half; igbos; kainene; loss; nigerian; people; trauma; war; wound cache: aquino-7655.pdf plain text: aquino-7655.txt item: #162 of 173 id: aquino-7656 author: Dr. Christian Maduabuchi Umeanwe title: DIVINE CREATION VERSUS HUMAN INNOVATION CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE date: 2025 words: 2402 flesch: 37 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. keywords: christian; creation; human; innovation; intelligence cache: aquino-7656.pdf plain text: aquino-7656.txt item: #163 of 173 id: aquino-7657 author: Modupe Ola Jumoke Adu title: STOICISM ORIGINS, EVOLUTION, AND RELEVANCE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY date: 2025 words: 3347 flesch: 56 summary: He is credited with organizing Stoic philosophy into three interrelated fields of ethics, physics and logic.  Ethics: Eudaimonia, or human flourishing, attained by leading a life of virtue (aretē), was the ultimate goal of Stoic philosophy. keywords: control; life; philosophy; reason; stoicism; stoics; things cache: aquino-7657.pdf plain text: aquino-7657.txt item: #164 of 173 id: aquino-7658 author: Ushingio, Peter Ushingio,; Chukwu, Paul Ogbonna title: PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION A PARADIGM FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT date: 2025 words: 5325 flesch: 48 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’ development. Keywords: Peace, Conflict resolution, Ibuanyidanda noetic propaedeutic, National development. keywords: conflict; development; human; ibuanyidanda; mind; nation; noetic; peace; people; philosophy; propaedeutic cache: aquino-7658.pdf plain text: aquino-7658.txt item: #165 of 173 id: aquino-7659 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 words: 5298 flesch: 50 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. keywords: control; country; interest; israel; land; nation; nigeria; resource; restructuring; tribes cache: aquino-7659.pdf plain text: aquino-7659.txt item: #166 of 173 id: aquino-7660 author: Lilian IjeomaAmaechi Ph.D title: SCHOOL CLIMATE AS CORRELATES TO TEACHERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN LAGOS STATE NIGERIA date: 2025 words: 3074 flesch: 40 summary: Specifically, this study was to examine the relationship between school climate and teachers’ job performance in public senior secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria RESEARCH QUESTION Q1. Is there any relationship between school climate and teachers’ job performance in public senior secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria? keywords: climate; job; lagos; performance; school; secondary; teachers cache: aquino-7660.pdf plain text: aquino-7660.txt item: #167 of 173 id: aquino-7661 author: Prof. Ogundare, Z. B.; Dr. (Mrs) Owoyemi, D. O. title: BETWEEN RECOGNITION AND INCLUSION RETHINKING MULTICULTURALISM IN NIGERIA’S DEMOCRATIC LANDSCAPE date: 2025 words: 4491 flesch: 22 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. keywords: cultural; democracy; governance; inclusion; multiculturalism; nigeria; recognition; state cache: aquino-7661.pdf plain text: aquino-7661.txt item: #168 of 173 id: aquino-7662 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 words: 3185 flesch: 23 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. keywords: africa; knowledge; philosophy; power; production; systems; transcolonialism; university cache: aquino-7662.pdf plain text: aquino-7662.txt item: #169 of 173 id: aquino-7663 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 words: 5850 flesch: 34 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:  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). keywords: development; economic; gender; igboland; inequality; institutions; kabeer; land; nigeria; ownership; policies; relations; social; women cache: aquino-7663.pdf plain text: aquino-7663.txt item: #170 of 173 id: aquino-7664 author: Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu, PhD title: INTERSECTION OF AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND CHRISTIANITY THOUGHTS FOR THE PROMOTION OF MUTUAL RELATIONS date: 2025 words: 5196 flesch: 59 summary: The adage “A single tree cannot make a forest” 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. keywords: african; christianity; culture; god; journal; kanu; life; religion; respect; values cache: aquino-7664.pdf plain text: aquino-7664.txt item: #171 of 173 id: aquino-7665 author: Jude I. Onebunne, PhD title: EXPLORING BELONGINGNESS AS A COMMON STRAND IN AFROMODALS date: 2025 words: 7037 flesch: 47 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). keywords: afromodals; belongingness; community; existence; human; identity; iroegbu; onebunne; philosophy; reality; strand cache: aquino-7665.pdf plain text: aquino-7665.txt item: #172 of 173 id: aquino-7666 author: Titus Awukane Afatang; Stephen Chibuikem Okeke title: QUESTIONING GOD’S OMNIPOTENCE A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF LEIBNIZ’S THEODICY date: 2025 words: 5272 flesch: 63 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’s nature (such as goodness), some philosophers argue that Titus & Stephen Questioning God’s Omnipotence: A Critical Appraisal… 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. keywords: evil; existence; god; good; leibniz; problem; reason; world cache: aquino-7666.pdf plain text: aquino-7666.txt item: #173 of 173 id: aquino-7667 author: Dr. Emmanuel Ukata title: HANS JONAS’ ETHICS OF LIFE A PANACEA TO MODERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CRISES date: 2025 words: 5714 flesch: 33 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. keywords: crises; ethics; future; hans; jonas; life; nature; responsibility cache: aquino-7667.pdf plain text: aquino-7667.txt