Current Issue: Volume 6 (2020)
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe (Book Review)
Enrique M. Ligot, Ph. D.
Steven Henry Strogatz, Applied Mathematics professor at Cornell University,
is a staunch advocate of making math more accessible to the public by writing
books, with Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe (2020) as
his fourth work. Through his writing, he shows how math as a language helps
us understand the world.
Collaborative Production of “Civilizing Spaces” in Spanish Philippines: The Longos-Paete Land Dispute in Laguna in the Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Grace Liza Y. Concepcion
This paper aims to present the land dispute between Longos and Paete in the province of Laguna de Bay from 1733 to 1734. The objective of the paper is to show how contested lands lying in the border of towns were adjudicated via collaboration among the native elite or principalia, the Church authorities and Spanish civil authorities. Such collaborative interactions gave rise to those pueblos
Communities of Learning: Networks and the Shaping of Intellectual Identity in Europe, 1100-1500
Ed. by Constant J. Mews and John N. Crossley. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2011. 366 pages.
Juan 0. Mesquida
At the high school history level or in world history manuals, the topics under Middle Ages evoke a rather structured society: feudalism, emerging towns, guilds, monastic orders, scholasticism, and the universities. In this volume edited by Constant J. Mews and John N. Crossley, a group of scholars has chosen to focus on one historical field—the intellectual world—and study less explored or less obvious practices of transmitting knowledge.
Jürgen Habermas’ Between Facts and Norms
Maria Asuncion L. Magsino
Modern societies are characterized by groups of people sharing a common space but upholding a plurality of “lifeworlds.” On this account Habermas claims that modem law should assume the role of being the primary medium of social integration in modern society. Although both traditional and modern law possess instrumental power of enforcement on their subjects the normative source differs greatly.
Editorial Board 2014
EditorMarya Svetlana T. Camacho Associate EditorsAngelito Z. AntonioMa. Andrelita S. CenzonVeronica L. IslaJuan O. MesquidaEdwin L. OlmosEva M. RodriguezRoberto E. de Vera Managing EditorMa. Christina Victoria T. Cayton CopyeditorDivine Angeli P. Endriga Advisory...
The 1610 Arte y reglas de la lengua tagala Revisited: An Advanced Grammar for Spanish Missionaries of the Seventeenth Century
Arwin M. Vibar
A study of the linguistic and grammatical activity during the Spanish colonial times in the Philippines shows that the missionaries decided to learn the vernaculars, rather than impose Spanish, in order to carry out their mandate of evangelizing the natives. The best known among these missionary grammarians was the Dominican Fr. Francisco Blancas de San Jose who wrote the Tagalog grammar Arte y reglas de la lengua tagala in 1610 for the use of his confreres.
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