AFRICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE AND SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: AN ETHICAL PARADIGM By Alloy S. Ihuah PhD. Department of Religion and Philosophy Benue State University Makurdi. Nigeria. alloyihuah@yahoo.com 08034017856;08026242031 (i) Introduction African indigenous knowledge system expressed in proverbs‚ names and songs etc. are conscious reflections on specific situations‚ events and experiences in the lives of the people
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Distrustful‚ argumentative‚ creative and highly competitive‚ Michelangelo Buonarroti was a sculptor of genius. Ross King’s awe-inspiring book Michelangelo And The Pope’s Ceiling tells the story how this genius sculptor created one of the greatest treasures of The Renaissance‚ the ceiling frescos of the Sistine Chapel. King draws a written and interesting portrait of Michelangelo that includes family‚ his fellow artists‚ his chaotic life and times in a thirty-one chapter book. As King points out
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Modern age is considered to be the era of democracy tolerance and humanism. People all over the world are supposed to have equal conditions for living and‚ moreover‚ should be treated no matter what their religion or race are. It should be said that humanity needed two world wars to appreciated the price of human life‚ however‚ nowadays it tries to protect it. One can admit that society has already done a great number of steps which helped people all over the world to obtain their rights and freedoms
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style focused on the struggles included in the human experience. These two styles unite to represent Greek humanism through art. Architecture was built on the scale of Man‚ in an effort to complement humans‚ rather than dwarf them. Additionally‚ the columns themselves symbolized Man‚ in the idea that each plays a part in supporting the structure. Even the style of the columns suggested humanism‚ with a masculine and feminine style; Doric columns were sturdy‚ characterized by simple‚ undecorated tops
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I drew a parody of The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo to represent religious pluralism. Shown alongside the Christian God is Buddha‚ Ganesha‚ and Guru Granth Sahib‚ as an ode to the many other religions in the world that should be recognized. Many famous artwork is inspired from Christianity because that was the dominant faith in history. However‚ that does not diminish the validity of others. By putting religious figures from different culture in a Renaissance painting‚ it means that they too
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The Life of Michelangelo Michelangelo Buonarroti was a brilliant Italian artist from the 15th century. Author Ascanio Condivi wrote an interesting biography called The Life of Michelangelo‚ which talks about Michelangelo’s journey through life. Michelangelo came from a noble family‚ the counts of Canossa‚ who are from a part of Reggio‚ Italy. Michelangelo’s father realized at a young age that his son was brilliant. He wanted his son to study in the field of letter so he sent Michelangelo to an upscale
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this‚ when we first look between psychoanalysis and humanism‚ we can name the basic and drastic differences between these theories. For starters‚ the time frame between the development of each spans around fifty years‚ with Freud growing his idea of psychoanalysis in the 1890’s‚ and the humanistic view point not coming to the spotlight until the 1950’s. Another obvious difference between these two schools of thought lies within the basis of humanism as an optimistic philosophy‚ and by most accounts
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properly founded on human nature and experience alone.” The value of humanism can also be seen‚ because although the Moors were predominantly Muslim‚ they still did not try to suppress advances and achievements by non-Muslims‚ which represents the humanist ideal that humanity should work to improve as a whole‚ not just benefit from one single group of people‚ or in this example people of one religion or another. Lastly‚ humanism shows it’s face with the progressive nature of many techniques and procedures
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Behaviorism vs. Humanism Heather Murphy PSY331: Psychology of Learning Instructor Corey Pruitt September 1‚ 2014 Behaviorism vs. Humanism Behaviorism and humanism are two theories of learning. Both theories are very important‚ and have many good qualities‚ which makes it difficult to say that one is better than the other. When it comes to learning‚ behaviorism does not consider mental processes‚ rather it looks at our response to stimuli in our environment. Whereas‚ humanism sees learning
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Secular Humanism because of the meaning of the song that is implying that trying so hard to achieve the fame and glory people try to measure themselves by today’s society’s standards‚ because of their blindness to what really matters and to what is true‚ can ultimately destroy you really are a person. The term Secular Humanism cannot be simply defined just as you would search up a word in Google or in a dictionary. Leo Preffer‚ author of the journal article “The “Religion of Secular Humanism”‚ states
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