“We cannot feel that we understand a thing until we can give an account of the causes and its modus operandi” Aristotle. The purpose of higher education in society is amongst others to give ‘a person a clear conscious view of his opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them’ [1] ; in short manufacture intellectuals. The above purpose is a synoptic recapitulation of scholarship’s wholeness, it captures the essence of how the continued vitality and greatness of human philosophic traditions are fundamental to academic teaching, scientific and scholarly research, and creative cultural life. This imbues on a field of study or discipline the role of claiming scientific status only when it produces such persons, and preferably within a dispensation that is peer refereed. In this refereeing, the science pursued, in and by the discipline, should not calibrate a monolithic outlook, but demand to admit into that scien...
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