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INTRODUCTION The notion of how knowledge is acquired has continue to chose a fundamental controversy in Philosophy which has led to the emergence of two schools of thoughts; the rationalists and empiricists. The former affirms the acquisition of knowledge through reason unaided by experience while the later adhered to sense experience as the means by which knowledge is acquired. Despised this two conflicting doctrines, Immanuel Kant tries to reconcile or rather is swift to strike a balance. Between these two schools of thoughts knowledge can be acquired through both ways. However, in line with these opposing doctrines their surveys seeks to examine the rationalists view of this notions in a particular respect to one of the Philosophers namely Rene Descartes. Rene Descartes is our key study in this work and will look into  his major philosophical work concerning knowledge. More so, in order to have a better understanding of our subject at hand, this work will give us an inkling of

CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION Background of Study The term justice is increasingly becoming a fascinating issue on the front burner in our age. This is as a result of the many injustices that have becoming endemic and perennial, and whose brute impact we are experiencing in our contemporary age. This odious phenomenon has inevitable from recorded history has informed or drawn.It is in so, many philosophers and scholars into thought provoking reflections on the meaning, nature and essence of justice in human social intercourse. It is significant to assert that amongst the verse array of treatises on justice that of Thomas Aquinas is widely held as the most plausible and incisive. According to him, ‘justice is giving each one his due (Gratsch, 173). Moreover, Plato, the great philosopher is renowned for his brilliant pragmatic notion of justice. Plato’s justice was centered on the poor and deplorable political conditions in Athens. He sought the possible ways of restoring the sens