Browsing by Author "Mimbi Paul,"

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    Discourse on method: Questions on Polo’s method of the abandonment of the limit
    (Miscelanea Poliana, ) Mimbi Paul,
    After studying a few authors of the 'System Philosophies' —the family of views that draw inspiration from Descartes— an aspiring young philosopher remarks: why are these people obsessed with the theory of knowledge instead of tackling the real issues? The youngster could have been wrong in his observation, yet all agree that the obsession for the method over thematic questions is the hallmark of the modern thinkers...with Kant marking the so-called critique/dogmatic divide… Is it any wonder then that they seem to be quickly running out of line? Consider the following example: after seeing a slithering cobra coiled up in a corner of your tent on waking up in the morning in a camping expedition would you first stop to think of whether the eyes are reliable enough to be taken on their face value? Would you not rather be more inclined to think that the matter in hand is weightier than a consideration of the conditions for the possibility of seeing it? What is more important: the disease causing organism under observation or the electron microscope the researcher is using to observe it? Why the obsession for method with the consequent relegation of the real topics to a distant second place? We know that thinking is important but should we stay the course of our inquiry just in the thought process? Would the following expose provide an answer to this puzzle?
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    Towards an economics methodology: exploring the philosophical foundations of Economics
    (International Journal of Research in Education and Applied Sciences, ) Mimbi Paul,
    Concerned with the contradicting approaches to ethics and economics in business management, the author examines the decision-making patterns of workers and managers of a construction firm. The drive behind the workers (and managers) falls roughly into three categories of incentives. The incentives coincide with the three tendencies in man which define the Plato-Aristotelian psychograph. When the tendencies are in accord with the Aristotelian bonum rationis (good of practical reasonableness), there is synergy in the incentives. The alignment of incentives calls for fundamental behavioral postulates which should underpin ethico-economic systems