RUAHA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

Education in its nature, quality, finality and the modes of offering, has been an object of scientific inquiries down the ages. This paper critically reflects and analyzes the philosophical doctrine on final causality seeking to show how a final cause as a cause of all causes determines or influences the nature and quality of education.Discussion is based on the Ancient Greek Philosophers Plato and Aristotle as the classical protagonists of both the doctrine of causality and of the philosophical thought on education. The discussion includes two schools of thought of the postmodern era: Pragmatism with an American base and Ujamaa from the African perspective. Basing on the Aristotelian understanding of the nature and features of a final cause, it is concluded that an appropriate educational framework is determined by an appropriate end-inview of the whole enterprise of education.

Cause, Final Cause, End-in-View, Pragmatism, Ujamaa