ABSTRACT The study attempts to create a synthesis between two seemingly opposing ethical theories. The theories are Kant’s deontology and utilitarianism. Kant’s deontology urges that moral actions be assessed from the motive. In his view the motive for such an action is nothing else but the motive of duty. By duty, he means the necessity to act with respect for the moral law that is innate in all rational beings. Utilitarianism takes a consequentialist position on moral assessment. On uti...
ABSTRACT The duty of veracity or truth-telling, a condition in medical practice which requires that patients be told the truth at all times about their medical diagnosis has generated ethical challenges in modern medical practice. Previous studies have examined the problem of veracity using principle-based ethical theories like deontologism and teleologism. These theories, however, failed to provide a basis for resolving the dilemma of truth-telling because of the conflicting nature of the p...
ABSTRACT Ak[nauche, an ontological and intelligent component of the human person capable of mediating and unifying the individual‘s facets of existence, is central in maintaining social order in Igbo culture. Existing studies have addressed the idea of ak[nauche mainly from scientific and aesthetic perspectives, without adequate analysis of the concept in relation to the unity of the individual as a being of many parts, significant to the attainment of social order. This study, therefore, ...
ABSTRACT The making of conscious efforts to include women in political decision making at all levels has come to be seen as an integral part of development in contemporary times. Though this is not an absolutely new phenomenon. the last quarter of the twentieth century which began with the declaration of 1975 as the International Year of Women marked a watershed in the collectivization of hitherto singular efforts at women's empowerment. The United Nations and other gender-sensitive Non Gove...
ABSTRACT A challenge confronting the study of punishment in contemporary society is the justification of the institution concerned with the deliberate infliction of suffering on an offender. Most of these justifications have been anchored on either of two competing theories, namely the utilitarian and retributivist theories of punishment to the neglect of integrative notion of punishment found among the Yoruba. However, these theories fail to account for some elements necessary for an adequ...
Abstract: This paper explains how ethics and accountability are vital to good governance and the development of any country. It is the thrust of the paper that good governance requires ethical foundation and that government officials must not only be responsible and responsive to the masses, but, more importantly, they must be accountable for their actions and inactions. Nigeria is blessed with abundant natural and economic resources, as well as human resources, but she is also endowed with ...
Abstract There have been questions about the nature of philosophy. Some scholars are of the view that there is only and one philosophy. For them, philosophy is a universal discipline and all those who want to do philosophy must adhere strictly to the standards of doing philosophy. Philosophy anywhere is philosophy everywhere. On the other hands, some scholars have also argued that there are different philosophies. According to them, the method of philosophizing in one area or region may be d...
ABSTRACT The works of Aristophanes have caused some modern writers to refer to Euripides as a misogynist and, at the same time, Aristophanes has not been taken seriously when it comes to the presentation of women in a misogynistic or feministic perspective because he is a comic writer. Due to this, scholars have refused to put these two writers on the same platform to see the underlining intentions of their presentations. Even though Aristophanes’ works are comedies and every depiction cann...
ABSTRACT This thesis is a report on a comparative study of diagrams and models used as teaching aids in teaching atomic orbitals in senior secondary schools (SSS). An orbital represents a three-dimensional ,volume of space around an atomic nucleus, where electrons arc found. Diagrams of orbitals in textbooks and on teachers' chalkboards appear in two dimensions, making visualization difficult for students. Three second-year elective chemistry classes in different schools in the Cape Coast Mun...
ABSTRACT This thesis is an examination of epistemic injustice and how it legitimizes feminist epistemology. The argument is that the prevalence of epistemic injustice in mainstream epistemology has a positive implication for the legitimization of feminist epistemology as a sub-field of study. Epistemology, conventionally, has been construed as a discipline that deals with inquiries about knowledge devoid of social dimensions. These scholars hold the view that political power and other social ...
ABSTRACT The study examined Galatians 4:21-31 as a covenantal discourse. The research used the Hermeneutical theory of Ricoeur, which is a double dialectic movement from understanding to explanation to comprehension and then appropriation. The study also adapted Ricoeur’s theory to African biblical interpretation by creating an encounter between Ricoeur and West (2001) at the pre-understanding stage. The study considered covenantal discourse as that which appraised existing covenant event, ...
ABSTRACT One of the highlights of the twentieth century was the promulgation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the newly formed United Nations in 1948. Since this step was taken, however, the concept of human rights has become the topic of much debate. Also, current statistics indicate that human right violations are more frequent now than they were, prior to the world wars. To ensure that the UDHR achieves its aim of protecting human dignity, philosophers and other schol...
ABSTRACT This thesis examines Rorty’s pragmatic approach to epistemology. Rorty criticizes foundationalism for relying on the optical metaphor that sees knowledge as grounded in the given of sense impression. He also criticizes the enterprise for relying on absolute truth which is untenable. Sellar’s critique of the notion of the given and Quine’s attack on analytic synthetic dichotomy are by implication sufficient to show that foundationalism is misguided. According to Rorty, the idea ...
ABSTRACT: Starting from the assumption of the inadequate comprehension of the foundation and the ultimate purpose of law as Kant and Cicero observed in jurists, this paper looks at the positivist interpretation of law, critically analysing the tenets of legal positivism and how this approach to law upholds amoral laws. Dissociating morality from law has the tendency to derail society of ethical and moral values, plunging it on the slippery slope of the perversion of justice, something that un...
Forrest says that even stronger conclusions about these two (science and religion) are controversial (45). The view that science can be demarcated from religion in its methodological naturalism is more commonly accepted. Pennock argued that Intelligent Design, in its appeal to supernatural mechanisms, was not methodologically naturalistic, and that methodological naturalism is an essential component of science—though it is not a dogmatic requirement, it flows from reasonable evidential requ...