DEPARTMENT OFPHILOSOPHY

This project explores the debate between the idea that abortion is morally wrong (impermissible) and the belief that women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. It focuses on feminist arguments that support women's freedom and equality, showing how access to abortion can be essential for these rights. The project also includes the views of philosopher Immanuel Kant, who believed that human life has special value because of our ability to reason. From Kant's perspective, abortion might be seen as wrong because it ends a potential rational life. However, the feminist view argues that a woman's right to control her body should be respected, especially when her health, freedom, or future is at stake. The project compares these views to help understand both sides of the issue.

This study was carried out on the distorted images of African continent: a Heideggerian interpretation. To achieve this significant research objectivewere formulated, which is to showcase and bring to “more” conscious awareness the varied distorted images with which Africans are labeled. The study covered the whole of African continent, especially the black Africans, bearing in mind that some Africans like Egyptians are white in complexion. The history of African is relevant to the history of Black people throughout the world, and partly because of the general derogatory image “Africans” and Black people everywhere have inherited from Western history. The study adopted the expository, analytical and hermeneutical design. Hence the study analyzed the Martin Heidegger: The Question Of “Being”, the fundamental ontology: Dasein analytic, his methodology, and Heidegger’s concept of phenomenology and interpretation. The study in the chapter four analyzed African Distorted Images, the causes of African predicament which include; Geographico, Historico, and Colonialism. Additionally, phenomenological interpretations of African distorted images was also part of the study. In conclusion, the study indicated that the distorted images about Africa, in the light of Heideggerian interpretations, are born out of prejudice, and cannot withstand the sledgehammer of logical criticisms.

This Project presents a critical examination of Aristotle's concept of gender essentialism, which posits that women's biology determines their social roles and capacities. Through a liberal feminist lens, this analysis challenges Aristotle's hierarchical and binary view of gender, arguing that it perpetuates harmful stereotypes, limits women's potential, and reinforces patriarchal norms