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Right and Wrong: Faith and Reason in the Secular Age
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A collection of essays on philosophy, politics, and moral thought. Monday, September 29, 2014. Faith and Reason in the Secular Age. The End of Faith. Harris dismisses all the claims of religion and their relevance to the ethical life of man. For Harris, the pervasive idea that religion is somehow the source of our deepest ethical intuitions is absurd. [2]. He says that concern for others was not an invention of any prophet. [3]. He rejects theology is a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, he says, it ...
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Right and Wrong: Madness and Presidential Elections
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A collection of essays on philosophy, politics, and moral thought. Friday, June 12, 2015. Madness and Presidential Elections. Structural injustice is devastating. Ruby Paredes writes that Filipinos have emerged from their colonial experience “with both a sense of their inadequacy and a confidence in their capacity to manipulate.”. It's the Economy, Stupid! Posted by ryan maboloc. 2011 POPDEV Media Awardee. Pope John Paul II. On technological rationality and the lack of authenticity in the Modern age: A c...
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Right and Wrong: The Dictatorship of the Old Order
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A collection of essays on philosophy, politics, and moral thought. Wednesday, April 24, 2013. The Dictatorship of the Old Order. A paper delivered during May 2013 Phavisminda Conference at the Visayas State University in Baybay, Leyte). Now, why this problem? The Philippines is Politically Disarticulated. Consciously or otherwise, the majority thinks that. The dictatorship of the old order has destroyed this country no end. It has rendered electoral exercises a mere moro-moro. Featuring the most popular ...
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Right and Wrong: Politics and Social Media
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A collection of essays on philosophy, politics, and moral thought. Sunday, April 13, 2014. Politics and Social Media. A lecture delivered during the 37th PHAVISMINDA Conference at the University of San Carlos, Cebu City, May 2014.). Phenomenon as Thomas Friedman calls it – has only increased the huge divide between rich and poor. Dangers of Online Social Media. Can people develop authentic human relationships online? Dr Michio Kaku’s 1997 book Visions. Elaborated on the possibility of man to cyborg relat...
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Right and Wrong: Rights-based Approach to Teaching Ethics
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A collection of essays on philosophy, politics, and moral thought. Monday, August 27, 2012. Rights-based Approach to Teaching Ethics. A paper delivered during the International Conference on Implementing Business Ethics in an Asian Context held at the Ateneo de Manila University, August 23-25, 2012.). Ethics and Human Development. What is the role of development ethics in today’s world? The Rights-based Approach: Human Dignity as Basis of Human Rights. Economic Justice and Climate Change/Justice. In conc...
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Right and Wrong: The Myth of Philippine Democracy
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A collection of essays on philosophy, politics, and moral thought. Friday, May 18, 2012. The Myth of Philippine Democracy. A lecture delivered during the Centrist Democratic Party Regional Leadership Training held at the Royal Mandaya Hotel, Davao City, 2012). The issue of colonial mentality is also one that we cannot set aside, for as Fr. Vitaliano Gorospe writes in The Filipino Search for Meaning. But what caused this country to become a case of a wasted democracy? The sociologist Robert Michels emphas...
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Right and Wrong: "Hari ng Tondo", Asiong Salonga, Carla Abellana and the Aesthetics of Arthur Schopenhauer
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A collection of essays on philosophy, politics, and moral thought. Thursday, September 13, 2012. Hari ng Tondo", Asiong Salonga, Carla Abellana and the Aesthetics of Arthur Schopenhauer. What follows is a kind of realism, an enunciation of objective values which proceed from the depths of one’s being, of life, of family, of love or the lack of it, and one that is accompanied by a misconception (or redefinition? The world of the principium individuationis. It is, as Michael Corleone says in The Godfather.
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Right and Wrong: Sen and Moral Choice: Merging Development and Existentialism
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A collection of essays on philosophy, politics, and moral thought. Friday, March 4, 2011. Sen and Moral Choice: Merging Development and Existentialism. A paper delivered during the 2011 PHAVISMINDA Conference in Ilo-ilo City.). What makes human development human? Ananta Giri connects the idea of being human to the idea of self-realization. What is self-realization? Sen’s notion of well-being lacks a notion of a critically reflective, creative, transformative self, and his notion of capability does ...
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Right and Wrong: Some Notes on Political Philosophy
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A collection of essays on philosophy, politics, and moral thought. Monday, April 6, 2015. Some Notes on Political Philosophy. Political philosophy, as a reaction to social pathologies, enunciates how human thought seeks to address one of the most important questions known to man since the ancient times: What is the meaning of justice? Indeed, poverty is one of the biggest scandals of modernity. In the words of Enrique Dussel, "philosophy must ponder what is not philosophical - reality itself."[1]. Libert...
