My 2016 Lenten Prayer

Pray with me in 2016 Lenten season

Grant O Lord, that through the observances of lent, I shall learn to see all creatures as one, from the womb of the same God. That I, and all Christians may see and experience the depth of God's mercy so much as to extend such mercy to all men without exception Christians and non-Christians alike.

May people of all religious inclinations be knowledgeable enough to know that judgement and condemnation is not for us but God's prerogative and as such live the life of neglecting what we may term evil in the lives of others and channel the resentment that would have gone with such categorisation into love for others and seeking good in everyone. By so doing, shall we deemphasize evil and emphasise your love and mercy and when death, the transformation of life comes, we would be very much ready to see you and enjoy the joys of seeing you facie a facie; the beatific vision.
Amen.

UNIBEN MADE

I'm still aesthetically appreciating this Emy-made fast food.

THE INTER-SUBJECTIVITY OF THE CONCEPT OF BEAUTY

                     

1.0.PREAMBLE:

The concept of beauty has constituted one of the principal disturbing issues in the history of Aesthetics. And because there has never been a consensus on the definition of the term, the concept of ‘beauty’ has consequently generated controversies among thinkers. For instance, Pythagoras argued that numbers, proportion and patterns constitute beauty.[1] Plato’s Formism ended up in metaphysical objectivism. For him, ‘Beauty’ resides in the world of Forms, and what we conceive as beautiful are only copies of the ideal Beauty. Moreover, according to Aristotle, beauty is nothing but goodness. Besides, David Hume maintained that beauty lies in our individual perception. As a result of these, it is worthy to note that the peculiar quality called ‘beautiful’ is not the same at all times and for all persons. Nevertheless, the fundamental questions remain: What is beauty? What is the nature of beauty? How can we identify someone who is beautiful? In other words, what makes somebody or a work of art beautiful? Is beauty objective or subjective? If I say that beauty lies in how I conceive of it, from where then did I know that it is beautiful? If I say that beauty is objective, how then do I explain the diversity in the conception of beauty? Following from the above, a philosophical investigation into the concept of beauty will solely occupy the interest of this work.

ISIS’ CATACLYSMISM: A PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL

By Dominic E.B. Anyalagbuna

1.0.ABSTRACT:

The very inhumane hazards of the so-called Islamic militant group named ISIS are indeed highly cataclysmic! However, this paper is faced with the problem of undertaking a philosophical examination of the named group. This, the paper does, using the critical-evaluative method by considering their history, aims and activities. Upon this examination, this work discovers that, among other relevant theories, this rebel group seems to be operating on the Transcendental Idealism of Immanuel Kant which states that ‘only ideas in the mind exist,’ though one cannot absolutely arrive at it. This theory follows from the militants’ idea of Muhammad’s prophecy that ‘there will be a time when the whole world will be subjected under a ‘caliphate,’ with a ‘caliph’ as their head. Nevertheless, in the end, this treatise highlights that the solution to ISIS’s crisis is mental and intellectual re-formation. In such-wise, this work adequately recommends an urgent mental re-configuration founded on re-interpretation of the Quran among these Islamic extremists, which