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Uyi-Ekpen Ogbeide, Lambert Uyi EdiginPages 83-92DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0005-0 ABSTRACT Based on the fact that military establishments have historically played a major role in the transformation of societies, this paper argues that the Nigerian Armed Forces need to be credible and modernized in order to be able to fulfil their constitutional responsibilities. They can do this by […]

Elvis ImafidonPages 93-110DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0006-z ABSTRACT The paper challenges the dominant view of the individual’s place in an African (Esan) structure of Being or culture as one cast in the midst, and subject to the operations of (spiritual) forces, which are independently real and existent and can make or mar the individual’s existence based on the

Francis Xavier GichuruPages 111-126DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0007-y ABSTRACT The article is a bold extraction of the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) value of traditional African education, attempting to capture the essence of what education made a young person be when he/she qualified for marriage. At the marriage stage an adult was given the green light to become the

Solomon A. LaleyePages 127-142DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0008-x ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the problem of conflicts that are sociopolitical in nature. It thus agrees that conflict is a product of human interaction, but its degeneration into violence is avoidable and consequently detestable. The repressive, depressive and destructive functions of socio-political conflict are seen as products of the

Jim I. UnahPages 143-158DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0009-9 ABSTRACT Self-discovery leads to the development of the ethics of self-mastery. Many ethical systems prescribe how the individual could attain self-mastery by means of critical self-examination or self-analysis. Once such critical self-examination or self-analysis is successfully carried out, the individual begins to use himself, his personal preferences, as the standard

Seungbae ParkPages 159-170DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0010-3 ABSTRACT I attempt to rebut the following standard objections against cultural relativism: 1. It is self-defeating for a cultural relativist to take the principle of tolerance as absolute; 2. There are universal moral rules, contrary to what cultural relativism claims; 3. If cultural relativism were true, Hitler’s genocidal actions would be

Simona ModreanuPages 171-186DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0011-2 ABSTRACT The well-known label of “theater of the absurd” is based on the Aristotelian logic of the nonincluded middle, the common interpretation being that of the chaotic and irrational character of the universe, human destiny, and language. However, we propose another view on the subject, relying on the discoveries of quantum

Mario PerniolaPages 187-212DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0012-1 ABSTRACT In order to properly understand the period which begins at the end of the ’60s last century, this must not be described anymore using the traditional categories of culture and politics. Facing events like those in May ’68 in France, the Italian revolution in 1979, the fall of the Berlin

Simona MitroiuPages 213-222DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0013-0 ABSTRACT Following the distinctions made by Susan Pearce between souvenir collections, fetishism collections and systematic collections, the present study will underline the idea that, for Walter Benjamin, collection was a way to reconnect with the past and to reconstruct an image of what was destroyed. Every object collected by Benjamin was

Radu Vasile ChialdaPages 223-235DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0014-z ABSTRACT In order to redefine barbarism, a hermeneutical framework is needed. The contemporary socio-cultural context and the transformations that have occurred during the last decades represent the premises for a new barbarism. In redefining barbarism, its relationship with civilization and culture should be first considered. Cultural mutations, together with the