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Life and works of rizal

1. LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL

2. Rizal: Human and Hero 1.Reverence without understanding is for deities, not flesh and blood heroes like Rizal. Hero-worship must be both historical-critical.” (Ocampo: 1969) 2. We must viewRizal as an evolving personality within an evolving historical period . 3. Rizal was capable of unraveling the myths that were woven by the oppressors of his time, but he would have been at a loss to see through the more sophisticated myths and recognize the subtle techniques of present-day colonialist, given the state of his knowledge and experience at that time. 2

3. 4. Many of his social criticisms are still valid today because certain aspect of our life is still carry-over of the feudal and colonial society of his time.

4. 5. To be able to appreciate a hero for that matter, we must be able to learn more about him not merely his acts but the thoughts behind his acts, his reasons, the situation he found himself in as well as his motivations.

5. 6. “If Rizal is treated like God, he becomes unattainable and his accomplishments inhuman.” (Cristobal, 2004)

6. State the best sacrifice that you have done or can do for your family. __________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________

7. Rizal: An example of Sacrifice Our national hero was a man of peace with a vision. Rizal suffered as much as his countrymen . He was the spark that gave birth to Philippine pride for one’s country and people . Yet all he wanted for his people was that they educate themselves so that they could stand as free men and face the world with head held high. 7

8. “Whatever our condition might be then, let us love our country always and let us wish nothing but her welfare. Thus we shall labor in conformity with the purpose of humanity dictated by God which is the harmony and universal peace of His creations” Letter of Rizal to Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt 8

9. Rizal Ideas: A Reply to the Challenges of our Millennium Rizal Ideas: A Reply to the Challenges of our Millennium “Rizal ideas are responses in the challenges of the new millennium” - Ambassador Edmundo Libid - Jose Rizal is indeed pre-eminent among the national heroes of the Philippines, and is thus revered by the Filipino nation primarily because of his virtues of character which exemplify honesty, personal integrity, patriotism and civic responsibility. willingness to sacrifice for the cause of his native land, high sense of justice and family solidarity, and the other loftiest standard of truth with which he pursued the nobility of his cause to found and foster Filipino Nationhood. Rizal's pre-eminence is derived from the very fact that he validated all his social and civic virtues, embodied in his noblest aspirations for his country and people, by consciously and clear-headedly accepting the ultimate sacrifice of death in the tragic field of Bagumbayan now called as the Luneta on December 30,1896. 9

10. Rizal the man stands among those few that are companion to no particular epoch or continent, who belong to the world, and whose lives have a universal message. His field of action lay in the strife of politics and power, but these were not to his inclination. He shouldered his political burden solely in the cause of duty, a circumstance rendering him one of those figures rare in human affairs, a revolutionary without hatred, and a leader without worldly ambition. Where his true inclination lay is finely demonstrated in his life by the fact tat his works in science, history, and literature, and his profession as an ophthalmic surgeon, share a single, identical aim- to shed illumination and give sight to the blind. 10

11. Thank you