Department: Department of Philosophy

A Critical Appraisal Of Joel Feinberg’s Moral Limits Of Criminal Law.

Almost everyone would agree that liberty is the goal every state should aspire for. However, before ...

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A Study Of The Concept Of Liberty In John Locke’s Political Philosophy

The influence of John Locke on early modern political society is widely recognized. His ideas regard...

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Karl Popper’s Democratic Ideals And Democracy In Nigeria: A Critical Hermeneutic

Much of Africa in general and Nigeria in particular is in a precarious state with numerous developme...

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John Locke’s Theory Of Personal Identity: An Appraisal

The critical issue in personal identity is hinged on the continuity of the self or the identity cond...

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A Phenomenalysis Of David Hume’s Epistemology

Hume’s phenomenalistic epistemology poses some fundamental problems such as the philosophica...

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Communicative Action In Jurgen Habermas’ Political Philosophy: An Appraisal

ABSTRACT This dissertation critically examines the Theory of Communicative Action in Habermas&rsquo...

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Truth As Social Practice In Richard Rorty’s Philosophy: A Hermeneutical Investigation

This dissertation attempts a hermeneutical investigation into Richard Rorty’s postmodern claim...

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Nyerere’s Ujamaa And Fukuyama’s Megalothymia In Africa: A Dialectical Approach

What should constitute the ideal social order is an age-old philosophical problem. Hence virtually e...

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Merleau-ponty’s Political Ethos Of Violence: A Critical Examination

Maurice Merleau-Ponty has argued that society is created by violence and exists continually throug...

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Machiavellianism In Nigerian Politics: A Philosophical Appraisal

Since Nigeria’s Political independence till date, she has not faired very well as a country ...

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Kant’s Metaphysics And An African Metaphysics: A Comparative Analysis

Man has always been curious about the causes of nature and existence of things. This made him to won...

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Kant’s Categorical Imperative And The Challenges Of Climate Change A Critical Analysis

This work takes a look at the current challenges that humans are facing as a result of climate chang...

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John Stuart Mill’s Concept Of Individual Liberty A Critical Analysis

Mill’s concern in his theory was the preservation of individual liberty within a democratic s...

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Institutional Development As A Paradigm For African Development: A Hermeneutical Study Of Olusegun Oladipo

This work sets out to interrogate the challenge of African development. Africa is endowed with col...

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Husserl’s Transcendental Phenomenology: A Hermeneutical Investigation Into The Possibility Of Evolving A New Global Social Consciousness.

Though the alignment of the world between the West and America and their people on one hand and the ...

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Hermeneutics Of Death In Igbo World View And Its Socio-anthropological Implications

Death is a universal phenomenon common to all temporal beings. Man is born into life, grows, dies an...

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Globalization And Development In The Third World: A Critical Appraisal Of Economic Liberalism’s Approach To African Development

ABSTRACT Human quest for development can be traced back to the onset of human existence. This expla...

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A Philosophical Investigation Into The Possibility Of World Peace In The Philosophy Of Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant in his political essays titled Idea of History with a Cosmopolitan aim and Towards Per...

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A Philosophical Investigation Of The Concept Of Law In H.l.a Hart

Hart falls under the category of the legal positivists that approach the study of law from the persp...

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Ayn Rand’s Political Objectivism: An Appraisal

Ayn Rand’s Objectivism is a philosophy based on objective reality. It holds that reality exist...

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Doubting: A Bridge To Certainty In Rene Descartes’ Meditations (a Critical Analysis)

This work deal s on the Rene Descartes hyperbolic doubt, that gives rise to ultimate certainty in hu...

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Truth As Social Practice In Richard Rorty’s Philosophy: A Hermeneutical Investigation

This dissertation attempts a hermeneutical investigation into Richard Rorty’s postmodern claim...

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Communalism And Globalization In Contemporary Africa: A Philosophical Investigation

Human quest for sustainable development can be traced back to the very onset of human existence. Phi...

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A Comparative Analysis Of Force In African And Western Worldviews

The concept of force is a reality with a flip side representing African explanation, particularly (B...

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The Challenges Of Child Adoption: A Socio-religious Discourse On The Ebonyi Christian Couples’ Experience

The work dealt with the challenges experienced by Christians who hail from Ebonyi State, in search o...

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Thearab Spring In The Dialectic Of Hegel’s Philosophy Of History

Hegel with his triadic movement called the ‘dialectic’developed one of the enduring achi...

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The Dialogics Of Legal Method In The Philosophies Of Law Of H.l.a. Hart Andronald Dworkin

One of the critical problems in philosophy of law for two decades is the clash between Hart’s ...

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Hermeneutics Of The Problem Of God And Evil In Augustine And Whitehead

The issue of how there can be so much unearned suffering in a world created and sustained by a God ...

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Liberty In The Philosophy Of John Stuart Mill: Implication For The Arab Spring, 2010-2017

Liberty is the most crucial value intrinsic in the human being. There are many factors that contribu...

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An Analytical Study Of Time In African Philosophy

Time is an integral aspect of life because life itself means understanding and experiencing the dura...

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Concept Of Love In Martin Luther King Jr

The search for peace, love, cooperation and mutual existence in the world has made the research on M...

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Liberalization Of Abortion: A Philosophical Appraisal

The problem this dissertation attempts to resolve is the question bothering on whether a woman has t...

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