A REVIEW OF IGWEBUIKE AND THE QUESTION OF SUPERIORITY OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY OF KNOWLEDGE

Abstract

This paper was published in 2017. It tends to place Igwebuike within the ambience of proper identity. To know is very natural and in congruence with the natural identity of man since man by nature desires to know. To know is congenital to man as homo cogitans. Hence, to the ancient Greek aphorism know thyself, Socrates, an Athenian moral philosopher was popular in his use of the Delphic maxim Man Know thyself. By implication, it seems very much true that man’s sojourn on earth is within the bounds of knowledge. This knowledge, which is either empirical or rational (ideological), and according to Francis Bacon is power has Universal application. Man’s quest for knowledge has been as old as humanity. In the chequered history of man, there is this old desire to know and then become which go hand in hand. At the dawn of creation in this quest for the superior knowledge, the quest to know and become will continue placing humanity with Divinity and it has brought us to where we are now as mortal-finite beings. The episode at the building of the tower of Babel remains a pointer. Looking at the history of knowledge and powers of knowledge, Kanu discovers a kind of silent but healthy rivalry which is very necessary for scientific progress and functional scholarship. Each epoch of human development shows this manifestation of the universal application of knowledge over time. This, of course, can lead to or become an avenue for healthy competition.