Category: Classical Philosophy

• Homily for Wednesday, 21st Week – Memorial of Saint Monica

  Woe to you, hypocrites! 1Thess 2:9-13, Psalm 138, Matthew 23:27-32 In today’s gospel, we come across a very important word used by Jesus. In the synoptic Gospels, he uses it at least 18 times. Such frequency means it was a special concern for Jesus. And in the gospel, we just listened to, He uses it…

  Valentine Umoh

  August 27, 2025

  Classical Philosophy, Exhortation, Motivational, Faith, Homily, Prayer, Worship

  authenticity, bible, christianity, Faith, genuine, God, hypocrisy, hypocrites, inauthenticity, Jesus, masking, Saint Monica, true love, unmask

• “Is an objective and absolute knowledge possible? What can we know?”: A NORMATIVE APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF EPISTEMOLOGY

      Introduction[1] There are various approaches to the epistemological treatment of knowledge: the normative approach, the descriptive approach and the moral approach or virtue epistemology. The normative approach is the historically dominant position which holds that for something to be knowledge, it must satisfy certain epistemic principles or criteria. In this approach, the attempt…

  Valentine Umoh

  May 18, 2018

  Classical Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophical Studies

  Epistemological Questions, Knowledge and Belief, Truth