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Criticism Of Might Is Right
CRITICISM OF “MIGHT IS RIGHT” BY RAGNAR REDBEARD

BY
OKOYE FRANKLIN NNAEMEKA
PJPS/NAU/010/48
08066129459

NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY, AWKA.
JUNE 2013

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE ---------------------------------------------------------------i
CERTIFICATION ----------------------------------------------------------ii
APPROVAL -----------------------------------------------------------------iii
DEDICATION --------------------------------------------------------------iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ------------------------------------------------v
TABLE OF CONTENTS --------------------------------------------------vi
ABSTRACT -----------------------------------------------------------------x
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of Study -------------------------------------------------1
1.2 Statement of Problem -------------------------------------------------3
1.3 Purpose of Study ------------------------------------------------------4
1.4 Scope of Study ---------------------------------------------------------5
1.5 Methodology -----------------------------------------------------------6
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1.6 References --------------------------------------------------------------7

CHAPTER TWO
2.0

Literature Review ----------------------------------------------------8

2.1 References --------------------------------------------------------------18

CHAPTER THREE
3.1 The Man - Ragnar Redbeard ----------------------------------------20
3.2 Factors that Influenced Redbeard ----------------------------------21
3.3 Redbeard’s view on Equality ---------------------------------------22
3.4 Redbeard’s doctrine on Survival of the Fittest -----------------24
3.5 His Moral Principles --------------------------------------------------27
3.6 Philosophical Anarchism -------------------------------------------- 28
3.7 Redbeard and Marxism ---------------------------------------------- 30
3.8 References -------------------------------------------------------------- 35

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