Abstract Philosophers have been intrigued by the problem of evil for centuries: How can God and coexist? This article tries to answer this question using Kongolese religious thought from sixteenth seventeenth centuries. I contend that view gleaned historical sources complemented contemporary African philosophical scholarship contains sufficient resources reply coherently. Particularly, argue th...

Political theorists have paid too little attention to the role of literature and the arts in the shaping of political ideals, and of no period is this more true than Rousseau’s. This is a great shame, for “conceptions of the nature and purpose of art closely parallel man’s conceptions of himself and of his destiny,”1 and they speak to us in ways far more compelling than abstract theory can do. ...

This article explores Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as an “object of care” for use in examining the relationship between creativity and responsibility in the sciences and beyond. Through three short sketches from different disciplinary lenses—literature, science and technology studies, and feminist studies—readers get a sense of the different ways scholars might consider Shelley’s text as an obje...

“Class Consciousness and Socio-Economical Conflict: A Cognition of Katherine Mansfield’s “The Doll’s House”” is an attempt to explore class consciousness socio-economical conflict prejudice insinuated in short story, Hose”. Mansfield lived between 14th October 1888 9th January 1923 New Zealand Zealand’s famous writer. The present research paper investigates the notion seen society through socio...

The strategic shifts in Labour's attempt to dominate the center ground of British politics started under the leadership of Neil Kinnock, strengthened with John Smith, but only received its apotheosis under Tony Blair. Like Thatcherism in the early 1980s, the project continued to evolve and take concrete shape in the early years of the Labour government. In a series of subsequent speeches Blair ...

TWO GENERATIONS have passed since Louis Wirth (1938) published his influential and controversial piece, &dquo;Urbanism as a Way of Life,&dquo; which attempted to specify the universal features of urban places. Since then his effort has often been criticized, yet the question of whether there are universals of urbanism continues to fascinate urban sociologists (see, for example, Duncan 1957; Dew...