Volume 8, Issue 1, 2011

Anton Carpinschi, Bilakani TonyemePages 7-26DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0001-4 ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to demonstrate that globalization, as it proceeds today, will only lead to a clash of civilizations and to the destruction of the fragile cultural identities. This leads to folds of the cultural minorities and the seeking of their recognition that can be […]

Jacob Ale AigbodiohPages 27-48DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0002-3 ABSTRACT The phenomenon of widespread stigmatization of victims of deadly, or previously incurable, diseases in African traditional societies would appear to pragmatically contradict the humanistic values of communalism associated with those societies. However, the implied contradiction of the phenomenon, which borders on irrationality and injustice, seems amenable to a rational

Justina O. EhiakhamenPages 49-62DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0003-2 ABSTRACT The act of discrimination against the female sex is an undeniable phenomenon in virtually all human societies, though the severity varies from one society to another. It is against this backdrop that this paper is aimed at exposing the inadequate nature of the primogeniture rule of inheritance towards the

Nicolito A. GiananPages 63-82DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0004-1 ABSTRACT The article aims to delve into the ethical dimension of Ubuntu philosophy, which is an African philosophy that reverberates in other cultures and in various forms, thus exemplifying its universality and universalizability. In this dimension, it tries to re-examine the notion of ethics in relation to morals/morality, including “is”

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