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A CRITIQUE OF EMILY CANNON’S PAPER: “ANIMALS MIGHT HAVE RATIONAL SOULS: INSIGHTS FROM CHIMPANZEE COLONY” (Published in International Journal of Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 5 December, 2017)

A CRITIQUE OF EMILY CANNON’S PAPER: “ANIMALS MIGHT HAVE RATIONAL SOULS: INSIGHTS FROM CHIMPANZEE COLONY” Charles Kenechukwu Okoro Department of Philosophy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The Merits of the paper In the paper, “Animals might have Rational Souls: Insights from Chimpanzee Colony,” Emily Cannon advances a view that apparently supports the contemporary course for the promotion of animal rights. Drawing largely from Frans de Waal’s study of animal behaviour, using especially Chimpanzees, she advances this course with greater vigour by ascribing rational souls to animals. Systematically raising interesting philosophical questions, the paper is undoubtedly as thought-provoking as it is intellectually enriching. Its philosophical interest in the possibility of non-human animal consciousness makes for a re-assessment of man’s unique nature and privileged status in the universe, especially through comparison and contrast with those animals whose actions could approxi...
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CHRISTIAN MOTHERS: TREASURES OF INESTIMABLE VALUE IN THE FAMILY, THE CHURCH AND THE HUMAN SOCIETY. (Article Published in: WOMEN ECHO: THE VOICE OF CATHOLIC WOMEN OF NIGERIA Vol.1 N0. 24, 2019 Pages 44-47)

google scholar google scholar CHRISTIAN MOTHERS: TREASURES OF INESTIMABLE VALUE IN THE FAMILY, THE CHURCH AND THE HUMAN SOCIETY. REV. FR. CHARLES KENECHUKWU OKORO Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Charles.okoro@unn.edu.ng ; kenecharles@yahoo.com 07032712275 1.0   INTRODUCTION The dignity and nobility of womanhood find special expression in the person and unique roles of the Christian mother. The Christian mother shoulders enormous responsibilities in the family, the Church and the society. She is expected to attend to these duties with every sense of purpose, commitment, sacrifice, and the fear of God, especially in the knowledge that by means of these she works out her salvation. In his book, Anatomy of Female Power , a popular Nigerian social critic Chinweizu Ibekwe expressed the view that human civilization has fundamentally always been matriarchal, even though it has worn a patriarchal mask. For him, while men appeared to be...
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