Browsing Research Articles (Philosophy) by Author "Ben, Patrick Effiong"

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Browsing Research Articles (Philosophy) by Author "Ben, Patrick Effiong"

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  • The paradox of ambivalent human interest in innocent Asouzu’s complementary ethics 
    Ben, Patrick Effiong (Calabar School of Philosophy, 2022)
    In this paper, I argue that the cause of morally self-defeating acts at the collective level is greed and, at the individual level, an unrestrained impulse for pleasure beyond Innocent Asouzu’s primordial instinct for ...
  • Predeterminism as a category error : why Aribiah Attoe got it wrong 
    Ben, Patrick Effiong (Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group) and NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2023-10)
    I aim to establish in this article why Aribiah Attoe, like other determinists before him, got it wrong in arguing for the possibility of predeterminism in a materially evolving universe. I will do this by proving two things: ...