The Filipino Social Thinkers (DISS HUMSS 11)

Major subject in humss

1. THE FILIPINO SOCIAL THINKERS

2. DR. JOSE P. RIZAL (REFORMIST)

3. One of the most renowned social thinkers is our national hero Jose Rizal, he dedicated his life through his writings the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo and social teachings found in his writings and depositions. Using his skill in writing through the La Liga Filipina he encouraged every Filipino not to be enslaved but to believe in sovereignty in their own country and raise consciousness from fanaticism, docility, inferiority, and hopelessness towards. Believed in Agnostic Deism – the view that God created the universe with its law, never to interfere with it again. “ Human problems are irrational human creations and can be solved through rational solutions. If the reason commits mistakes, only reason can correct them” “What is the use of independence if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow”

4. Andres Bonifacio (Revolutionist)

5. Founded KKK ( K ataastaasan , K agalang galangang K atipunan ng mga anak ng Bayan) His philosophy of revolution was published in the revolutionary newspaper, “Kalayaan”. Transformed the blood compact ( sandugo ) as a kinship contract. According to him, a revolution of war is justified when there is a breach of contract.

6. Emilio Jacinto (Revolutionist)

7. He capitalized on the idea of a free reign of reason, of the freedom to think and do, rather than the freedom to will and do.( Gripaldo , 2002) “In a colonial situation where both will and thinking are suppressed where intellectual fanaticism is the rule, where one’s will is conditioned to submit to tyranny, it is intellectual liberty that comes primary” Filipinos must get rid of slavery; must embrace liberty again with a price, a bloody revolution.

8. Manuel Luis Quezon (Political Philosopher)

9. Political pragmatism and political operation for an eventual Philippine Independence Political Pragmatism – “one must fight for a goal but if obstacles towards that goal are difficult to summon then one must fall back to an alternative that is better than nothing provided it’s in the right direction”. Belived in Social Darwinism – governments are products of political struggles for survival. “ Partyless Democracy” – political parties influence the politician, the people. Equal access to essential raw materials.

10. Jose P. Laurel (Political Philosopher)

11. Individuals cannot forever remain in solitude. Social differences. “Human rights cannot be guaranteed unless the citizens first do their obligations towards the state.” “Good governance is founded on the righteousness and the foreign relations must be based on full reciprocal rights and privileges between and among nations.”

12. Renato Constantino (Nationalist)

13. Colonial experience has developed a captive consciousness. An effect of this “crab mentality”. This is the tendency to those on top of the hierarchy to push those below while those below to pull down those up above. “When one makes a nationalist choice, he or she chooses not for himself or herself alone but for the entire nation as well.”

14. R. Esquirel Embuscado ( Dissectionist )

15. As a painter, he believed that the task of an authentic artist is to cut the umbilical cord of the past, to make use of the present and to protect that present to the open future. He called this artist of “ dissectionism .” True art must not be part-oriented, but present-future oriented.

16. Cirilo Bautista (Political Theorist )

17. “History can be read as a poem in the same way a poem can be read as history”

18. Claro R. Centeza (Meta Physician)

19. To “exist” is to “stand out” To “exist” is “to make a difference.”

20. Rolando M. Gripaldo ( Circumstantialist )

21. “FREE CHOICE” Choices are done in situations, which are of 2 broad types: rational and nonrational.

22. Isabelo Delos Reyes (LABOR ACTIVIST/ANTHROPOLOGIST)

23. Father of Filipino Socialism Initiated labor strikes against American business firms. Founded “El Ilocano” He organized the first labor union, Union Obrera Democratica Filipino Mother Tongue based Multilingual Education

24. Camilo Osias

25. “TAYO” concept Believes that education must secure for every Filipino the fullest measure of effiecency freedom and happiness.

26. Vicente Sinco , Francisco Dalupan , Conrado Aquino

27. Liberal Education – an approach to learning that empowers individuals and repairs them to deal with complexity, diversity and change. Sinco envisioned the need for well-trained teachers as one of the essential factors to improve the quality of educational program in schools. Aquino also stressed that those responsible for the education of the citizens must also educate them in fullness of their rational nature.