PHILOSOPHY AND THE SOCIETY

In joint publishing with ESSENCE LIBRARY (VOL. 10, NO.2)

EDITORIAL

Philosophy as a discipline is both substantive, thematic and specialized as much as it is encompassing and engulfing. Since philosophy became specialized in logic, metaphysics, epistemology and ethics in the advent of breakaway disciplines like sciences, astronomy and mathematics, its relevance to the society has re-affirmed cognitive and epistemological indispensability to moral and social order. As a second order private and public enquirer, it opens new vistas, channels of thinking in research and continue to push back the horizon of knowledge inexorably to higher limits. Volume 10 of ESSENCE and OJPP is on Adamic dilemma or the problem of mankind.

Philosophy is one unique means by which philosophy as a discipline converses and interrogates different problems  confronting humanity, either as ready-made problems resulting from sin and disobedience in the garden of Eden (Adamic existential problems) or problematic social order. Religion, sociology, psychology, politics, law, history and so on, as disciplines are both acknowledgement and resolve to search for solutions to human predicament. Hence philosophical enterprise is another dimension to phenomenological, existential and ontological enquiry. This special number or issue is therefore, on some of those problematic existential questions such as Socionomy, Psychonomy, ethno-philosophy, humanism, library science, moral and social order. The articles for this anthology of philosophical investigations are, Comparatives Introduction to Socionomy and Psychonomy by Ogundu Charles; Ethno-Philosophy and Public morality in an African tribe by Dike A. Uche. African Humanism in Achebe in relation to the West by Edeh P.D. Revisiting the Catalogue Cards in University libraries in Nigeria by Obiozor-Ekeze Roseline N.; Religion and Politics in Nigerian Society by Ogugua Ikechukwu and Effective Power of Music in Africa by Mbaegbu C.A.

Volume ten (10) is on the Adamic problem of sin and disobedience which is a philosophical problem or the problem of philosophy in general. Number one (1) is on Phenomenology and Adamic dilemma on the planet earth. Number two (2) is on Philosophy and society and number three (3) is on Philosophy and praxis all on the problem of Philosophy (Adamic disobedience) and mankind.

Open Journal of Philosophy (OJPP), Scientific Research Publishing

Journal website: http://www.scirp.org/journal/ojpp

And co-publisher:

Essence, Interdisciplinary International Journal

ESSENCE LIBRARY

(Cultural and Scientific Development Centre)

Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka and Lagos, Nigeria.