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Creative Writing 1

Author: Kalu Uka

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG212

Topics: Creative Writing, Fiction Writing techniques, Story Selection, story, Projection, Structure of Plots, Characterization, Thought, Idea, drama, Language, Dialogue, poetry, Creative Blocks, imagery, Allusion, Glossary of Terms, Poetic Language, Prosaic Language, Character building

An introduction to ethics

Author: Deigh John

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHL204

Topics: ethics, Socrates, Thrasymachus, ethical theory, deontology, Ethical theories, moral ideals, egoism, happiness, Psychological egoism, Psychological hedonism, Hobbesian program, Eudaimonism, Plato's ethics, Rationalism, naturalism, Aristotle's naturalism, Utilitarianism, Rule utilitarianism, Moral law, Divine command theory, Rational intuitionism, Personal autonomy, Existentialist ethics, excesses of existentialism, Practical reason, Meta-ethics, Meta-ethical disputes, Hume's meta-ethics, freedom, reason

Fundamentals of Marxism

Author: Adeolu Oluwaseyi Oyekan

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHL202

Topics: Marxism, socialism, scientific socialism, Karl Marx‘s scientific socialism, Marx on Human Nature, Theses on Feuerbach, Dialectical Materialism, Understanding Historical Materialism, Labor, Alienation, Commodity Fetishism, Surplus Value, Revolution, Marx’s Scientific Socialism critical examination, Hayek Critical Objections, Karl Popper‘s Criticism, Friedman Milton Detractions, Utopian Socialism, Democratic socialism, Hegel‘s idealism, Hegel‘s dialectical method, Hegel‘s conception of history, capitalist world system, History of capitalism

A Comparative History of World Philosophy From the Upanishads to Kant

Author: Ben-Ami Scharfstein

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHL242

Topics: Metaphysical Philosophy, moral philosophy, Logical Relativism, Skepticism, Absolutism Mahavira, Early Rational Synthesis, Atomism Democritus, Hierarchical Idealism, Plotinus, Developed Skepticism, Sextus Empiricus, Religio-Philosophical Synthesis, Methodological Metaphysics, Immanent-Transcendent Holism, Spinoza, Fideistic Neo-Skepticism, Perceptual Analysis

Social and Political Philosophy

Author: Oyekunle Adegboyega

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHL253

Topics: Social Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Contract Theory, political science, Western Political Thoughts, Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Niccolo Machiavelli, Karl Marx, Robert Nozick, Justice, Idea of Justice, Communalism, socialism, capitalism, democracy, Anarchism

Creative Writing 2

Author: Onyeka Iwuchukwu

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG312

Topics: Creative Writing, germinal idea, Myth, legend, history, Characterisation, plot, story, language, setting, Imagination, Stage Direction, production effects, Playlet, Writing Habit

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