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ABSTRACT
This study examines the nature and the practical use of proverbs and its relevance in discouraging vices and promoting moral values of integrity using Yoruba proverbs as a case study. It basically explains how Yoruba proverbs serve as a mechanism to sustain morality and discourage improper behavior which is the basic qualification necessary for our well-being and happiness.
The focus of this work is to analyse Yoruba proverbs using Aristotle’s ethic theory where he emphasized that virtue is practical and that the purpose of ethics is to become good, not merely to know. He further defines virtue as a disposition to behave in the right manner and as a mean between extremes of deficiency and excess which are vices. Twenty-eight proverbs were selected to explain the notion of morals or proverbs that simply discourages unethical practices among human beings. The proverbs analysed were obtained from Oyekan Owomoyela’s compilation of Yoruba proverbs, titled, The Good Person; Excerpts from the Yoruba Treasury.
Proverbs should be used appropriately and correctly because it is important in Yoruba life. The findings show that Yoruba proverbs are used as a tool for morality that sets good standard for future generation to thrive and live by.
