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Item Human rights in a moderate communitarian political framework(South African Journal of Philosophy, 2015-12) Ajei, M.O.The International Bill of Human Rights (IBHR) enjoys universal acclaim as the source of the best standards and definition of human rights. This paper argues that the IBHR is inspired by liberalism and harbours ambiguities that open the door to a neoliberal seizure of the rights agenda; and that this effectively destabilises the focus on the IBHR on socio-economic and community rights, and therefore its stated ideal of the equal value of all human rights. I argue that Kwame Gyekye's moderate communitarian political philosophy affords a viable philosophical basis for justification of a more balanced conception of human rights than the theoretical basis of the IBHR does. Human rights in a moderate communitarian political framework. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287392565_Human_rights_in_a_moderate_communitarian_political_framework [accessed Sep 11 2018].Item The Paranormal: African Philosophy questions Science(Legon Journal of the Humanities (20): 23–44, 2010) Ajei, M.O.: Modern science and its underlying philosophical doctrine, physicalism, have persistently denied reality and the rationality of belief in a set of phenomena they refer to as “paranormal”. However, belief in the occurrence of these events is commonly and strongly held by many persons in several cultures. This essay examines the question of the rationality of these beliefs and advances the view proceeding from its own current theories and methodologies, science will refute itself by sustaining the denial the reality of the paranormal, or it can maintain the denial by irrational dogma.Item From “Man is the Measure of all things” to Money is the Measure of all things: A dialogue between Protagoras and African Philosophy(Journal of the South African Society for Greek Philosophy. 9(1): 22–40, 2008) Ajei, M.O.; Ramose, M. D.Protagoras declaration that “man is the measure of all things” is conventionally discussed in the context of epistemology. There was, however, a communal or social dimension to this which, in the process of time, assumed greater intensity and expanded systematically into all aspects of human relations. The centrality of money in these relations speaks to the transition from “man is the measure of all things” to money is the measure of all things. The article proposes to defend this thesis in the context of conceptual orientation of NEPAD and the global economic order.