Abstract This work is a search for the basis of intersubjectivity in the African worldview conceptualized in Igwebuike philosophy. This piece found the basis of intersubjectivity of the African reality in Chi, which carries a variety of meanings among the Igbo-African people. However, the nuance of Chi that is employed here is that which understands it as the divinity in every huma...
Abstract Contrary to the opinion of some scholars which holds that science is independent of particular worldviews in its presuppositions and method, this paper argues that although the presuppositions of science have no worldview content, science may provide evidence that has bearing on a certain worldview belief. This dependence on a worldview is what gives science some level of political autonomy, that is, some kind of ...
Abstract Human beings are by nature enshrined in an inescapable world-hood web called language. As a symbolic construction and human agenda setting in semantic space, language ensures the application of social meaning, control, culture and social knowledge. As a result o...
Abstract Among the Igbo of eastern Nigeria, symbols are not only important, but have become indispensable in their daily lives. Several symbols used include: Ofo, which is a symbol of authority; Ogu, the symbol of innocence; Ikenga, a symbol of strength, uprightness, success, integrity and ancestry; Mbari, the symbol of culture and aesthetic...
Abstract The relationships in the African universe point to the fact of the dynamics of a personal and universal world, and the reality that the human person is a composition of lived embodiment with the world while at the same time experiencing his/her own body. This interaction between the personal world of the human person and the universal world is possible because, just as the heart of the human...
Abstract African traditional political systems are often categorized as monarchical or aristocratic, as such, as having no place for democracy. European and African political thinkers see democracy as a system of government that began in Greece and was imported from Europe to Africa. Contrary to this opinion, this piece ar...
Abstract A cursory glance at the different developments in the different epochs in the history of philosophy reveals the continuous resurfacing of the problem of superiority in the scientific community of knowledge. In Plato we see an exaltation of the discipline of&nbs...
Abstract Every philosophical position has an origin and the principles that guide or gives value to the pattern of thought in question. The origin is usually the result of a reaction to a particular circumstance that is either real or conceptual. This work is a response to the question...
Abstract The organic and departmental nature of reality calls for a method of research that both respects the organicness and departmentalness of realty. It is in this regard that this work introduces the Igwebuike research methodology, in an attempts at widening the scope of research methodologies. It is an indigenous, first because it has its origin in an African word- Igwebuike which literally means “there is strength in number” but speaks...
Abstract It has been argued that Aristotle’s Philosophy of Essence is linked to the crisis of relationship and global disorder. In politics, economy and religion, his theory of substance and accidents has been argued as a bivalent metaphysics that draws a line between what is and what is not. This paper argues that, this thesis has wider implication not only in metaphysics but also in all the sciences of human relations because the same line runs through race, faith, gender and ethnicity, ...
ABSTRACT An important aspect of general quality assurance program for brachytherapy dosimetry is source calibration. Vendors assign large uncertainties of up to ±10 % for the stated source calibrated values. It is thus important to check the vendor stated calibration. There are three main methods of calibrating brachytherapy sources and they are the “Free- in – air” method, using a re-entrant(well ) type chamber and using a thimble (Farmer) type ionization chamber in a phantom. The ma...
ABSTRACT The thermal–hydraulics and neutronics parameters of GHARR-1 control systems were assessed for its reliability after 18 years of operation using the Micro-Computer Closed Loop System (MCCLS) and original Control Console (CC). The MCCLS and some components that control the sensitivity and the reading mechanism of the meters on the control systems have been replaced with new ones over the years, due to ageing, repairs and obsolescence. The results show that when reactor is operated a...
ABSTRACT The issue of transnational justice was made popular in the 20th century by the American liberal philosopher, John Bordley Rawls, who tries to evolve a conception of justice that would be applicable at the transnational level. Unfortunately, his liberal prescription for transnational justice does not provide for any principle of redistributive justice that would be morally obligatory at the international level and, as such, fails to adequately address the question of justice at that ...
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 The issue of price deregulation in the downstream oil sector of Nigeria through gradual subsidy withdrawal has generated a heated debate in the country with the government claiming that it will guarantee long term stability in produ� supply and price. This will translate into economic growth and development Others/ especially the organised labour; claim that deregulation will lead to higher product prices/ higher cost of production/ and cut of jobs and will bring about recession i...