Philosophy of Motivation and its Relevance to Cultivation of Positive Attitudinal Changes in Man’s Efforts at Development: a Critical Appraisal
Philosophy of Motivation and its Relevance to Cultivation of Positive Attitudinal Changes in Man’s Efforts at Development: a Critical Appraisal
Nwabuiro Ideyi
Department of Philosophy & Religion
Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki
E-mail: nwabuiroideyi@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT Man, as experience has shown and wisdom confirmed, is a being whose behaviour is full of contradictions. This is a being whose ultimate craving is meeting the needs of his well-being. For that reason, he becomes a curious being always interested in every aspect of his existence and an innovative being always effecting changes to meet his latest desires. Contradictorily, while man is carrying a new picture of aspects of his life that call for amendment, he is equally sitting in the realm of stagnation where he is tied to the chain of habit which has become antithetic to changes in his way of living. Since man is a being of possibility always carrying a picture of future better self in his mind, stagnation is a foreign body to his being. For that, he needs to be helped to see how to phase stagnation out in his life. So the purpose of this work is to show how philosophy of motivation can help man to free himself from the chains of stagnation and embrace the booster of positive changes and use it to manage his life. The significance of this work is that it will help man to understand and appreciate his potentials and as well to see how to cultivate positive attitudes that will enable him to use them in effecting positive changes in all spheres of his endeavors. In order to give the topic a deserved treatment by leaving no relevant stone to it unturned, methods of exploration, critical reflection, analysis and prescription have been adopted.
