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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53805#.VNR0iCzQrzE Author(s)   Ani Casimir 1 , Ejiofor Samuel 2   Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Philosophy, Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria . 2 Department of Social Work, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria . ABSTRACT Ethics in social work will be the extension of the philosophical work in the welfare discipline known as social work. The transformation of social work as a profession flows from the pleadings of social philosophy for a deeper humanitariannization and valuation of social work. It is the marriage of the wise ones with the kind ones. Philosophy being seen as a disciple that creates professionally wise ones while social work is seen as the discipline that creates human welfare workers that help to alleviate the personal and societal problems of man. Ethical education will lead to ethicalization o...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=48986#.VJd8ycCAM4 Author(s) Muhammad Faisol Chowdhury Affiliation(s) School of Business, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh . ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to critically discuss the extent of interpretivism to understand the contemporary social world. This paper firstly highlights the roots of interpretivism which can be traced back in the ancient history of philosophy. It then discusses the concept of interpretivism and gives a critical commentary on the Weber’s construction of ideal types to help explore the contemporary social world. The paper then further discusses the concept of “verstehen” and explains how it can...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51210#.VFw7NmfHRK0 Author(s) Patricia Costa , Laura Rónai Affiliation(s) Graduation Program in Music (PPGM), Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil . ABSTRACT The present article focuses on the experiences of this researcher while working with a youth chorus in Rio de Janeiro. With the goal of commemorating twenty years of activity as director of the choruses at the Colégio S ? o Vicente de Paulo (Cosme Velho\RJ) in 2013, this researcher chose, for the annual concert presented by the youth choir SVEM, a repertoire of songs dealing with aspects of time; using this subject, it was possib...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51209#.VFw7MmfHRK0 Author(s) Celestine Chukwuemeka Mbaegbu Affiliation(s) Department of Philosophy, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria . ABSTRACT The problems of social and political ideologies in North Africa have reached its apogee in the year 2011 thereby demanding urgent philosophical investigation. What is propelling this current change? What kind of scepter has been haunting North Africa for many decades now? What kind of political system could guarantee their rights since their hard-line monarchies have failed them and they are jostling for liberation? This value is antithetical to the prevailing ideologies that sta...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51167#.VFgp1WfHRK0 Author(s) Celestine Chukwuemeka Mbaegbu Affiliation(s) Department of Philosophy, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria . ABSTRACT Any philosophy is closely tied to and truly inseparable from culture. This paper specifically examines the ontological status of any culture. In its full stretch, it focuses on whether or not there is any “philosophy” in a people’s culture and if in the affirmative, what type of philosophy it is, and how it relates to scientific or strictly academic philosophy in vogue of nearly all the academic institutions of higher learning in Africa and in many other foreign nations as well. ...