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156The Environmental Crisis and Its Root CauseChintan Research Journal 8 (32): 639-644. 2018.This paper attempts to identify the root cause of the current environment crisis. Although there have been strong debates between scholars about what has caused this environmental crisis, there is a strong agreement that the causes of the environmental crisis are mainly anthropogenic rather than natural. There are certainly a number of important factors, added together, that have contributed to the present day massive environmental crisis. However, all these different factors that have led…Read more
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490A Critical Analysis of Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of MoralsInternational Journal of Research and Review 4 (3): 54-75. 2017.Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), the German philosopher, is considered as the father of modern ethics and one of the great philosophers in the history of philosophy. He wanted to establish a firm foundation for moral philosophy. He contributed something new to modern ethics which was not attempted by earlier ethicists. He wanted to show by using reason that morality is based on a single supreme universal principle, which is binding to all rational beings. Precisely, Kant wanted to establish the first …Read more
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12095THE CONCEPT OF MODERNITY: A BRIEF REVIEWInternational Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews (IJRAR) 6 (1): 111-114. 2019.This paper explores the concepts of modernity as interpreted by classical theorists of modernity such as Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and contemporary theorists of modernity such as Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck. All of the three classical theorists of modernity introduce a single dominant force which is the basic dynamic of transformation for understanding the inherent features of modernity. For Marx, the major transformative power shaping the modern world is capitalism. As a result, …Read more
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721A Critical Reflection on W.V.O. Quine’s Naturalized EpistemologyInternational Journal of Research and Analytical Review (IJRAR) 6 (2): 39-43. 2019.W. V. O. Quine is the prominent advocate of naturalized epistemology, a collection of philosophical views that employ scientific methods, results, and practices to solve epistemological problems. In this paper, I explore whether Quine’s argument to replace epistemology by science is convincing. In naturalized epistemology, Quine totally rejects the normative aspect of epistemology; he focuses on the descriptive part of epistemology. Other thinkers such as Kim, Stroud, Almedir, Rorty argues that …Read more
Abraham Tsehay Jemberie
Debre Berhan University
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Debre Berhan UniversityAssistant Professor
Areas of Interest
Environmental Ethics |