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Papers by Nde Paul Ade
Science publishing group , 2022
Trends in scientific research and development , 2022
International journal of social sciences , 2020
This paper unveils the belief that there exist some natural duties that individuals are obliged t... more This paper unveils the belief that there exist some natural duties that individuals are obliged to fulfill. This permits one to abandon the hopeless question of sovereignty in the state. The various means to gain access to the content of natural law with complete certainty is also an indispensable preoccupation. First, the possibility of arriving at this knowledge is thanks to the dependence on the natural faculties of the individual. Second, by demonstrating that God exists while laying much emphasis on the argument from design. An omniscient God who is the creator of the universe and everything in it would not have created human beings without giving them certain objectives to attain or purposes in their lives to be fulfilled. Individuals are expected to refer to their natural duties. The content of our natural duties is deduced through a rational reflection on one's own human nature. These rational and inherent reflections are those that force people to act through three different natural duties. First, people always owe themselves the duty to ponder over the creations of God based on his knowledge that is manifested and evident in nature. The second duty is to be involved in praiseworthy activities involving God worship, adoration and honor which an omnipotent and benevolent God that he is deserves. Third, man must not only be concerned about the satisfaction of material needs as a prerequisite to a happy life but should equally partake in societal activities through speech, language, and the preservation of his life in particular and those of others in general.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Mar 20, 2023
This paper dwells on Locke's early contributions in the domain of natural philosophy, laying more... more This paper dwells on Locke's early contributions in the domain of natural philosophy, laying more emphasis on how nature operates as perceived through human observation. It equally focuses on specific stages, notably between the years 1658 to 1664, marked by exhaustive medical studies. These six years interval and more gave Locke the opportunity to meet some key figures and to be acquainted with significant personalities such as Robert Boyle, Thomas Sydenham, and Rene Descartes, who contributed remarkably in influencing Locke's thoughts on natural philosophy and medicine by providing him the possibility of writing semi essays on aspects like diseases, respiration, education, and many others in the subsequent years. The rationale revealed in this paper comprises a re-visitation, reconstruction, and scrutinizing Locke's earlier neglected works constituting the basis of natural philosophy, which have not yet been well investigated, not well interpreted, undigested, and improperly understood.
This paper portrays the necessity for a separation of powers between the civil government and the... more This paper portrays the necessity for a separation of powers between the civil government and the religious society, between this world and the other world beyond, between the body and the soul, in order to render Locke's political theory logical, intelligible and acceptable. In relation to this distinction, there is a twofold government in man. One is the spiritual, whereby, the conscience is instructed in piety and in God worship. The second aspect is political, which handles the duties of humanity and citizenship that should be maintained among men. The form of government that is temporal or public has to do with the concerns of the present life, property, commonwealth and external affairs on earth, for God cannot permit anyone but himself to rule over the soul. The duty of the magistrate sets in to tolerate any religious doctrine and practice within the society, provided that these religious practices do not in any means violate the rights of the citizens or disrupt their peace. The civil magistrate's duty is to secure the just possession of these worldly things such as lands, property, wealth, money. The magistrate's responsibility is considered to be entirely and only secular, designed to protect the public good which includes peace and security. Only a civil magistrate is empowered to respond to, and to punish whatever is criminal and intolerable. His coercive power must keep out of religious matters as long as the religious matters are not detrimental to the citizens' rights and the peace of the entire society.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Feb 25, 2022
This paper centers on the contributions and legacies of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan to political ph... more This paper centers on the contributions and legacies of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan to political philosophy and contemporary discourses. It addresses issues concerning the presocial and/or political situations experienced by mankind in the state of nature. Hobbes's version of a pre-socio political life is considered as short-lived, since it is characterized by pride, brutality, and anti-sociality, which contribute in disconnecting man from nature and affecting other fellow humans adversely. Persuasions and facts portrayed by proponents of the state of nature such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, among others, constitute tenable features of political philosophy. Using a Hobbesian approach, it thoroughly scrutinizes man's nature in the natural state, coupled with an exposure of the existential conditions prior to the establishment of a commonwealth or political society based on a social contract.
Journal of Advances in Education and Philosophy, 2022
This paper aims at uncovering and fragmenting the foundations of Locke’s theory of knowledge as a... more This paper aims at uncovering and fragmenting the foundations of Locke’s theory of knowledge as addressed in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Systematically, it reveals the origin of knowledge, develops and evaluates the limits of human knowledge and the extent of understanding, as well as critically examines what is knowable with more emphasis on certain and probabilistic grounds. Certainty is attainable through two principal means, comprising the use of the human senses and adoption of abstract reasoning. The sources of human knowledge are significant in easing and enhancing our knowledge of God as it facilitates the justification of his existence, portraying orderliness in the world, and positing mankind as part of God’s creatures expected to implement moral lifestyles through the appeal to reasoning as a law of nature even when in a state of nature. The value of this principle is evident for self-preservation, including an essential moral obligation for the preservation ...
This paper examines the clear cut separation and distinction of the role and business of the chur... more This paper examines the clear cut separation and distinction of the role and business of the church and the state. Social disorder, wars and conflicts of diverse natures have always resulted from the inefficient link between the church and the state. My focus in this paper is to justify that, without the establishment of a real boundary between the church and the state, there can be no certain end to the controversies that will be always arising. This principle of separation is geared toward the secularization of politics, as a means of putting the different sectors of the society in their right positions, by emphasizing on the fact that, the affairs of heaven do not have any business with those of the earth and restricting the temptation of power abuse by either the church or the state or both. I emphatically portray that, the church must be separated from the state exactly and absolutely because it is considered as the first method to resolve the different problems related to the ...
International and Public Affairs, 2021
The ideology and practice of patriarchy and female dominance in the twenty first century constitu... more The ideology and practice of patriarchy and female dominance in the twenty first century constitute a major impediment to women's enhancement and progress. This study unveils the origins, meanings, nature, implications, and perspectives of patriarchic societies on the female gender and how these aspects influence their attitudes and development. Various forms of economic, political, social, and religious discrimination were generated against women from the past decades till present day. The forms of domination range from male children preference to female children, household chores, food distribution, unequal educational opportunities, wife battering, sexual harassment, discrimination on inheritance issues and ownership of property such as lands, houses, titles. It explores the experiences of women considered as victims of patriarchy and subordinates to men. It is of primordial necessity to understand why and how female domination and subordination manifests in order to ensure women's development systematically. Feminism could be understood from varied view points since there exist a multifaceted structure of feminisms. Feminism motivates and rekindles the anxiety for one to develop more interests on how female power mongers, especially, manifest their desires to occupy posts of responsibility, politically, socially, culturally, historically, and even economically. In brief, it balances the perennial needs, theoretical frameworks and creates a more enabling environment for the understanding and functioning of various structures of the society in a gendered pattern, since it advances from theory to practice. Patriarchy is one of the setbacks for women's progress in the society, since it guarantees absolute power for men in particular and establishes an inferior status for the female gender as a whole.
International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences, 2020
This paper is a study of John Locke’s process of reasoning, defined as the investigation and disc... more This paper is a study of John Locke’s process of reasoning, defined as the investigation and discovery of the agreement or disagreement existing among ideas. Reason has four principal duties to fulfill which include: First, the highest goal of reason is the discov-ery of truths such as the existence of an eternal being. Second, in understanding, rea-soning eases the arrangement of ideas in order to portray and facilitate the agreement or disagreement among them. Third, reasoning perceives the connection of ideas in mental propositions. The fourth and final role of reason is that, it facilitates the mak-ing of right decisions and conclusions. Emphasizing on these four main functions of reason guarantees the basic objective of understanding which is geared towards the attainment of knowledge, judgment and truth. Through argumentation, reasoning fulfills the arrangement of ideas and operates through two major capacities being: First, it ascertains knowledge by determining intuitive or ...
International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences, 2020
Literature and society work hand in glove because literature is a reflection of the realities of ... more Literature and society work hand in glove because literature is a reflection of the realities of our society. This paper sets out to examine the pedagogic relevance of Literature in general and Prose in particular to Cameroonian High school students. It aims at presenting how and why The Death Certificate should be taught to Cameroonian High School Students. First, Students need to be informed about the society. Second, they should know what to do in face of various issues that arise in the society in general. Third, The Death Certificate handles themes such as love, power, domination and feminism which can conveniently be understood by High School Students. It is in this light that writers draw inspiration from the society to produce literary texts. Fourth, a work of art should not be limited; it should entertain, educate and inform us about our society. Fifth, Literature which reflects or acts as a mirror of life in society should be taught in schools because it shapes the student...
Cross-Currents: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal on Humanities & Social Sciences
This paper explores the conception of duties, rights, and forms of obligations as applied by poli... more This paper explores the conception of duties, rights, and forms of obligations as applied by political thinkers, theorists, lexicologists, jurists, and historiographers. The varied interpretations and dilemmas of obligations, duties, and rights, reflect the polysemy of the term thereby transmitting the necessity of rethinking and resituating the concepts in their etymological, original, moral, legal, lexical, and political contexts in order to grasp and digest their authentic significations. It is admitted that, obligations as thoroughly scrutinized in this paper, is difficult to situate clearly either in contemporary political discourses or in ancient political systems. In addressing the role and nature of political obligations, particular attention is worth according to political philosophers, historians, and linguists’ conceptions and interpretations of what obligations entail actually. The vital political implications are also examined in view of propounding a clearer understand...
Science publishing group , 2022
Trends in scientific research and development , 2022
International journal of social sciences , 2020
This paper unveils the belief that there exist some natural duties that individuals are obliged t... more This paper unveils the belief that there exist some natural duties that individuals are obliged to fulfill. This permits one to abandon the hopeless question of sovereignty in the state. The various means to gain access to the content of natural law with complete certainty is also an indispensable preoccupation. First, the possibility of arriving at this knowledge is thanks to the dependence on the natural faculties of the individual. Second, by demonstrating that God exists while laying much emphasis on the argument from design. An omniscient God who is the creator of the universe and everything in it would not have created human beings without giving them certain objectives to attain or purposes in their lives to be fulfilled. Individuals are expected to refer to their natural duties. The content of our natural duties is deduced through a rational reflection on one's own human nature. These rational and inherent reflections are those that force people to act through three different natural duties. First, people always owe themselves the duty to ponder over the creations of God based on his knowledge that is manifested and evident in nature. The second duty is to be involved in praiseworthy activities involving God worship, adoration and honor which an omnipotent and benevolent God that he is deserves. Third, man must not only be concerned about the satisfaction of material needs as a prerequisite to a happy life but should equally partake in societal activities through speech, language, and the preservation of his life in particular and those of others in general.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Mar 20, 2023
This paper dwells on Locke's early contributions in the domain of natural philosophy, laying more... more This paper dwells on Locke's early contributions in the domain of natural philosophy, laying more emphasis on how nature operates as perceived through human observation. It equally focuses on specific stages, notably between the years 1658 to 1664, marked by exhaustive medical studies. These six years interval and more gave Locke the opportunity to meet some key figures and to be acquainted with significant personalities such as Robert Boyle, Thomas Sydenham, and Rene Descartes, who contributed remarkably in influencing Locke's thoughts on natural philosophy and medicine by providing him the possibility of writing semi essays on aspects like diseases, respiration, education, and many others in the subsequent years. The rationale revealed in this paper comprises a re-visitation, reconstruction, and scrutinizing Locke's earlier neglected works constituting the basis of natural philosophy, which have not yet been well investigated, not well interpreted, undigested, and improperly understood.
This paper portrays the necessity for a separation of powers between the civil government and the... more This paper portrays the necessity for a separation of powers between the civil government and the religious society, between this world and the other world beyond, between the body and the soul, in order to render Locke's political theory logical, intelligible and acceptable. In relation to this distinction, there is a twofold government in man. One is the spiritual, whereby, the conscience is instructed in piety and in God worship. The second aspect is political, which handles the duties of humanity and citizenship that should be maintained among men. The form of government that is temporal or public has to do with the concerns of the present life, property, commonwealth and external affairs on earth, for God cannot permit anyone but himself to rule over the soul. The duty of the magistrate sets in to tolerate any religious doctrine and practice within the society, provided that these religious practices do not in any means violate the rights of the citizens or disrupt their peace. The civil magistrate's duty is to secure the just possession of these worldly things such as lands, property, wealth, money. The magistrate's responsibility is considered to be entirely and only secular, designed to protect the public good which includes peace and security. Only a civil magistrate is empowered to respond to, and to punish whatever is criminal and intolerable. His coercive power must keep out of religious matters as long as the religious matters are not detrimental to the citizens' rights and the peace of the entire society.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Feb 25, 2022
This paper centers on the contributions and legacies of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan to political ph... more This paper centers on the contributions and legacies of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan to political philosophy and contemporary discourses. It addresses issues concerning the presocial and/or political situations experienced by mankind in the state of nature. Hobbes's version of a pre-socio political life is considered as short-lived, since it is characterized by pride, brutality, and anti-sociality, which contribute in disconnecting man from nature and affecting other fellow humans adversely. Persuasions and facts portrayed by proponents of the state of nature such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, among others, constitute tenable features of political philosophy. Using a Hobbesian approach, it thoroughly scrutinizes man's nature in the natural state, coupled with an exposure of the existential conditions prior to the establishment of a commonwealth or political society based on a social contract.
Journal of Advances in Education and Philosophy, 2022
This paper aims at uncovering and fragmenting the foundations of Locke’s theory of knowledge as a... more This paper aims at uncovering and fragmenting the foundations of Locke’s theory of knowledge as addressed in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Systematically, it reveals the origin of knowledge, develops and evaluates the limits of human knowledge and the extent of understanding, as well as critically examines what is knowable with more emphasis on certain and probabilistic grounds. Certainty is attainable through two principal means, comprising the use of the human senses and adoption of abstract reasoning. The sources of human knowledge are significant in easing and enhancing our knowledge of God as it facilitates the justification of his existence, portraying orderliness in the world, and positing mankind as part of God’s creatures expected to implement moral lifestyles through the appeal to reasoning as a law of nature even when in a state of nature. The value of this principle is evident for self-preservation, including an essential moral obligation for the preservation ...
This paper examines the clear cut separation and distinction of the role and business of the chur... more This paper examines the clear cut separation and distinction of the role and business of the church and the state. Social disorder, wars and conflicts of diverse natures have always resulted from the inefficient link between the church and the state. My focus in this paper is to justify that, without the establishment of a real boundary between the church and the state, there can be no certain end to the controversies that will be always arising. This principle of separation is geared toward the secularization of politics, as a means of putting the different sectors of the society in their right positions, by emphasizing on the fact that, the affairs of heaven do not have any business with those of the earth and restricting the temptation of power abuse by either the church or the state or both. I emphatically portray that, the church must be separated from the state exactly and absolutely because it is considered as the first method to resolve the different problems related to the ...
International and Public Affairs, 2021
The ideology and practice of patriarchy and female dominance in the twenty first century constitu... more The ideology and practice of patriarchy and female dominance in the twenty first century constitute a major impediment to women's enhancement and progress. This study unveils the origins, meanings, nature, implications, and perspectives of patriarchic societies on the female gender and how these aspects influence their attitudes and development. Various forms of economic, political, social, and religious discrimination were generated against women from the past decades till present day. The forms of domination range from male children preference to female children, household chores, food distribution, unequal educational opportunities, wife battering, sexual harassment, discrimination on inheritance issues and ownership of property such as lands, houses, titles. It explores the experiences of women considered as victims of patriarchy and subordinates to men. It is of primordial necessity to understand why and how female domination and subordination manifests in order to ensure women's development systematically. Feminism could be understood from varied view points since there exist a multifaceted structure of feminisms. Feminism motivates and rekindles the anxiety for one to develop more interests on how female power mongers, especially, manifest their desires to occupy posts of responsibility, politically, socially, culturally, historically, and even economically. In brief, it balances the perennial needs, theoretical frameworks and creates a more enabling environment for the understanding and functioning of various structures of the society in a gendered pattern, since it advances from theory to practice. Patriarchy is one of the setbacks for women's progress in the society, since it guarantees absolute power for men in particular and establishes an inferior status for the female gender as a whole.
International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences, 2020
This paper is a study of John Locke’s process of reasoning, defined as the investigation and disc... more This paper is a study of John Locke’s process of reasoning, defined as the investigation and discovery of the agreement or disagreement existing among ideas. Reason has four principal duties to fulfill which include: First, the highest goal of reason is the discov-ery of truths such as the existence of an eternal being. Second, in understanding, rea-soning eases the arrangement of ideas in order to portray and facilitate the agreement or disagreement among them. Third, reasoning perceives the connection of ideas in mental propositions. The fourth and final role of reason is that, it facilitates the mak-ing of right decisions and conclusions. Emphasizing on these four main functions of reason guarantees the basic objective of understanding which is geared towards the attainment of knowledge, judgment and truth. Through argumentation, reasoning fulfills the arrangement of ideas and operates through two major capacities being: First, it ascertains knowledge by determining intuitive or ...
International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences, 2020
Literature and society work hand in glove because literature is a reflection of the realities of ... more Literature and society work hand in glove because literature is a reflection of the realities of our society. This paper sets out to examine the pedagogic relevance of Literature in general and Prose in particular to Cameroonian High school students. It aims at presenting how and why The Death Certificate should be taught to Cameroonian High School Students. First, Students need to be informed about the society. Second, they should know what to do in face of various issues that arise in the society in general. Third, The Death Certificate handles themes such as love, power, domination and feminism which can conveniently be understood by High School Students. It is in this light that writers draw inspiration from the society to produce literary texts. Fourth, a work of art should not be limited; it should entertain, educate and inform us about our society. Fifth, Literature which reflects or acts as a mirror of life in society should be taught in schools because it shapes the student...
Cross-Currents: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal on Humanities & Social Sciences
This paper explores the conception of duties, rights, and forms of obligations as applied by poli... more This paper explores the conception of duties, rights, and forms of obligations as applied by political thinkers, theorists, lexicologists, jurists, and historiographers. The varied interpretations and dilemmas of obligations, duties, and rights, reflect the polysemy of the term thereby transmitting the necessity of rethinking and resituating the concepts in their etymological, original, moral, legal, lexical, and political contexts in order to grasp and digest their authentic significations. It is admitted that, obligations as thoroughly scrutinized in this paper, is difficult to situate clearly either in contemporary political discourses or in ancient political systems. In addressing the role and nature of political obligations, particular attention is worth according to political philosophers, historians, and linguists’ conceptions and interpretations of what obligations entail actually. The vital political implications are also examined in view of propounding a clearer understand...