Philosophy and logic as inescapable organon for human development

Abstract

Philosophy which is not possible without logic just as it is impossible to imagine life devoid of logic. Philosophy is a clearing house or a store house, a kind of museum of all field of human knowledge. It is equally an imperialist colonizing all fields of human endeavors. As a store keeper of knowledge, it is frugal in distributing its commodities but once distributed, philosophy assigns independence and autonomy to these  commodities while they are still being existentially subordinated to it. As a colonizer it assigns territories out without giving warrant of possession to these territories. As a neo-colonialist, it finds another way, albeit disguised, of claiming these territories back in terms of exercising control over disintegrated disciplines. This paper is intended to articulate “a fortiori” the inescapability of “lumen naturale intellectus”1 as man‟s imperative for human development. At the end of this research we shall have succeeded in presenting philosophy as the home of, and always at home with, those problems with which other fields cannot cope. Thus philosophy remains a “medicina mentis,”2 a „terminus a quo et terminus ad quem‟3 of all disciplines and is thus a „ratio essendi‟ for human development. We used expository method of approach in this paper.