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Happiness through human work
In what follows, I analyze the nature of work as human action. From there I discuss the triple dimension of human perfectibility through man's operative powers: the intellect, will and affections or emotions. After that, ...
who benefits from African research?
The case spans over more than 20 years. It begins in the 1980s and is currently being debated. Between 1984 and 1986 a Ph. D. Botany student wanted to establish what kind of enzymes could be found in lakes of the Great ...
Business Ethics in Africa
Entry for Wiley Encyclopaedia of Business Ethics 3rd Ed.
The Beginnings of Kibondeni college, Nairobi : a historical and sociological overview
The theme of this article is Kibondeni College, a corporate work of Opus Dei in Kenya, East Africa. Its focus is the pre-history, the initial stages and the development of the school which started as a service unit ...
Teaching business ethics in Africa : what ethical orientation? the case of East and Central Africa
This paper starts off from what seems to be a difficulty of ethics in African Business today. For several
years now Transparency International has placed some African countries high on its list of most corrupt countries ...
Human nature/identity : the ubuntu world view and beyond
This paper is about the understanding of human nature and identity in the African context called Ubuntu. In the Introduction I explain the meaning of Ubuntu worldview. Following this I present the notion of Nature, and ...
Philosophy: 'What Is It All About?'
The number of students enrolling for philosophy courses in our public universities is dwindling. Philosophy,
the mother of all intellectual learning, is on the verge of being erased from Kenyan universities' curricula.
From ...
On Time. What is time?
This has been a central question in philosophy from time immemorial. And even to describe that long period, we have no other term to use but ‘time’. We find it discussed at some length by Aristotle, touched on somewhat by ...
el docente universitario ante los bienes de su práctica
We can recognize the teacher and his profession as the attempt to research or to
discover, recognize, promote and teach the truth to others. The scope of a
teacher’s quality is a topic still debated by those who tackle ...