Philosophy Unlimited
FOUR STANDARD FORM CATEGORICAL PROPOSITIONS Categorical propositions tell us about the relationship between classes. They tell us whether a particular class is included in another class or it is excluded from it, wholly or partially. A class is a collection of objects with the same features(s) or characteristic(s). So, there is hardly an object that […]
AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY By: Sylvester I. ODIA INTRODUCTION The existence of African Philosophy is no more a subject for debate in contemporary times. African philosophers are currently involved in doing African Philosophy using various methods and approaches. In this section on African Philosophy, I do not intend to overflog the whole issue of whether or not […]
PHILOSOPHY OF LAW By: Peter OMONZEJELE This is the use of Philosophy in critically evaluating the principles of Law. The first question that comes to the mind of the Philosopher is that asked by Dennis Lloyd: Is Law necessary? According to D. Lloyd this may seem a simple perhaps unnecessary question but on further reflection, […]
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY By: Peter OMONZEJELE Political Philosophy is a second-order discipline to Political science. There is the need to clarify the difference between Political Science and Political Philosophy. The Political scientist would ask questions such as: What is authority, democracy and sovereignty etc in empirical terms? The Political philosopher is interested in the conceptual […]
PHILOSOPHY AS A SECOND ORDER DISCIPLINE By: Peter OMONZEJELE INTRODUCTION The role of Philosophy as a second order discipline is to critically evaluate the concepts, methods, etc, or other academic disciplines. The effort is not primarily to detect the shortcomings and problems inherent in the methodologies and practices of such disciplines. It is actually […]
Axiology and Logic as other Branches of Philosophy AXIOLOGY This is the study of values: the good (ethics) and the beautiful (aesthetic). Ethics is from the Greek work ‘Ethika,’ meaning ‘manners.’ It changed its meaning in English (in the 17th century) to the study of Science of moral, or more widely, the Science of human […]
EPISTEMOLOGY People often disagree over many issues in religion, politics ethics, sociocultural and so on. This then raises the fundamental question “what can I know?” The branch of Philosophy that treats knowledge claims in general is known as Epistemology. Etymologically, Epistemology, is frk two Greek words: “Episteme”, meaning ” knowledge” and “logos”, meaning ” thought” […]
By: Sylvester I. Odia INTRODUCTION Philosophy as a discipline, has four main branches. They are: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Axiology, and Logic. Here Philosophy is, as it were, at home trying to solve problems and resolve puzzles that can be said to be philosophical in nature. Some of the problems it solves and the puzzles it resolves […]
Philosophy like any other discipline has a history, one that is rich, illustrious and interesting. Generally, there seems to be many reasons behind the historical approach to any field. Mankind and the visible world are the products of the past in terms of e.g. genealogy, paleontology, astronomy, etc. The world did […]
E. PHILOSOPHY AS FOUNDATION OF OTHER DISCIPLINES This definition sees Philosophy as the only Science, which is the science of itself as well as the science if other sciences. It is, so to speak, the mother of all disciplines. Originally, Scientific Cognition was identified with Philosophical Cognition. Over the course of time, the tree of […]