Nnadiebube Journal of Philosophy

Philosophy is a human disciplinary enterprise established in many philosophical traditions as world critical heritage which has birthed African Philosophical Traditions (APT) and Abrahamic (Judeo-Islamic) Philosophical Tradition (AbPT) as well as Eastern-Oriental Philosophical Traditions (EOPT) and Western Philosophical Traditions (WPT). Philosophies are products of different philosophical traditions. These philosophies acknowledged that ancient Egyptian Philosophy or African Philosophy as oldest critical excursus springs from the oldest philosophical traditions which is African Philosophical tradition. Equally, in the chequered history of humanity Philosophy has gained a lot of traditional, etymological and classical definitions from scholars in their varieties of authorships. An appreciation and comparative analysis of two most prominently succinct and precisely concise definitions of Philosophy primarily as philosophia and or fundamentally as habitus-intellectu which are within the methodological moment of hermeneutics is the thrust of this paper.Within the limits of proposed critical analysis, the researcher appreciates habitus intellectu as very basic in the proper definition of philosophy within the bounds of unaided human reason within the limits of other philosophies in African philosophy.

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