Current Issue: Volume 6 (2020)
Two Versions of “Ang Dapat Mabatid ng mga Tagalog”
Paul A. Dumol
The essay “Ang dapat mabatid ng mga tagalog” by Andres Bonifacio as this appears in anthologies of his works is not what appeared in the only issue of Kalayaan,the newspaper of the Katipunan. This is obvious from a comparison of Bonifacio’s essay with the Spanish translation of the essay as published in Kalayaan.
Life, Food, and Health in Wartime Luzon: Experiences and Networks of Family Support During the Japanese Occupation
Arnel E. Joven
Harsh conditions brought about by the realities of the Pacific War set in on the people in and around Manila from December 1941 to mid-1945. As events unfolded, Filipino and American forces ended up on the losing side. The demoralizing situation was worse for the ill-prepared civilians who had to deal with the exigencies of wartime emergencies and shortage of basic commodities. The most imminent of these shortages was that of food and medicine.
Vital Humanities: Their Educational Potential
Concepción Naval
Concepción Cárceles
In Classical Greece, conversation was considered the supreme form of human expression, in that it was the most human way that a person uses his/her body. Learning to speak properly—as H.I. Marrou asserts—meant thinking and living properly. Eloquence was what differentiated civilized human beings from barbarians.’ It is from these beginnings that the importance and meaning of the Humanities were understood in the most generic sense of the word.
Political Obligation in Catholic Social Thought
Jean Paul L. Zialcita
Inquiry into the bases of political obligation, understood as the duty incumbent on members of a political community to obey the commands of the political authority constituted over them, has been considered by some as the central task of political philosophy.’ Whether or not one accepts such a thesis, one surely cannot deny its significance, given that the degree to which members of a community accept that they are under such an obligation determines to a large extent how politics plays out in that community.
An Inquiry into Platonic Thought on Temperance
Ma. Asuncion Magsino
Plato was a student of the admirable Socrates, famed as the wisest man in Athens.’ For the most part, we find him using the character of Socrates in his dialogues as the person elaborating most of his views about certain topics. In his earlier writings, Plato reflects Socrates’ passion for living a virtuous life, thus giving us a glimpse of what he learned from his master.
Filipino Men as Generative Fathers: Profiles of Commitment, Sacrifice, and Faith
Angelito Z. Antonio
Sean E. Brotherson
Fathering is forever. The form and content will evolve and transform over time, but the heart of being a father, the deep emotional bond between a father and his child, continues to exert its power well beyond our lifetime…. Fathering is different from mothering. We come to our task from the outside, and captured in that configuration is the miracle we have to offer; for true fathering is not the physical act of planting a seed, it is the conscious decision to tend and nourish the seedling.
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