ANNE PRINCESS F.

WONG

BSSW III

MARCH 29, 2022

EVALUATION 4

1. Why was Rizal’s mission justified?

Everybody's mission in justified, rightly or wrongly. Most colonies felt to try to get out
from under colonial rule to either more equal standing or independence. Most colonizers didn't
accept that justification, hence the need for mission. Rizal is probably too intelligent for myself
to even fathom exactly what he was thinking and how he went about things. To be able to make
your colonizer who has all the advantages in life over you, to make them look stupid and
intellectually decimate them within their ideals and lead the peoples towards independence.
The point however at the end of the day, is that it was Rizal who started Filipino independence.
He made the Filipinos believe they were deserving to rule themselves, and that colonization is
immoral and they have suffered a great sin that the colonizer would never accept if it happened
to his own people. This lead Filipino independence groups to form for the first time in hundreds
of years, he essentially dismantled the colonizers propaganda, leading to Filipino independence
groups to form.

2. Why are experiences on injustice important in arousing national sentiment?

It helps us to understand what is national sentiment and it make us more diligent
because the sense of injustice is a universal human feature, though the exact circumstances
considered unjust can vary from culture to culture. While even acts of nature can sometimes
arouse the sense of injustice, the sense is usually felt in relation to human action such as misuse,
abuse, neglect, or malfeasance that is uncorrected or else sanctioned by a legal system or fellow
human beings. The sense of injustice can be a powerful motivational condition, causing people
to take action not just to defend themselves but also others who they perceive to be unfairly
treated. Injustice within legal or societal standards.

3. Why did Rizal involve the Filipinos in Spain in the campaign for reforms?
In their campaign for reforms, the Ilustrados worked hard to correct racist images drawn
by Spanish writers about the Philippines and the Filipinos. Together with progressive Spaniards,
they presented their demands for assimilation, good governance, and representation in the Cor-
tés. The newspaper La solidaridad and the founding of masonic organizations were the venues
for the reforms waged by the ilustrados. Rizal later concluded that they needed to return to the
Motherland and to initiate change from within.
4. Read the chapter on Rizal’s intellectual legacy in this book. Explain the Significance of the
publication of the Noli Me Tangere, El Filibusterismo and Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas in
relation to Rizal’s efforts in building Filipino Nation.
Filipino reformist Jose Rizal was a minor celebrity when he arrived in London in 1888.
His first novel, the Noli me Tangere, published in 1887, was praised by Spanish and Filipino
liberals in Europe but condemned by the Spanish colonial government and the Catholic Church
in the Philippines. His first homecoming that same year was cut short when the decision to ban
his book by government censors was announced and made Rizal a wanted man in his own
country. The discovery of Morga’s Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas proved to be serendipitous to
Rizal. He had been rethinking the idea of the Filipino not as a people who were equal to their
Spanish colonizers but a people with a unique civilization that was destroyed by colonization.
Rizal found the answer to his idea in Morga’s book and it was this work that he decided to
reprint with his annotations. This lecture will discuss how Jose Rizal rewrote the Philippine
history of his time with what has now been considered as his second major work. The Morga
annotations provided the seeds of the idea of how the Filipinos should view themselves amidst a
growing nationalism that eventually led to the formation of a nation.

5. What was the significance of each of the patriotic ideas of Rizal on love of country? Do you
find their relevance today in the New Society?
It can be inferred from his words that at this point Rizal’s sense of nation was now fully-
formed and complete, and perhaps not by happenstance, its expression coincides with his
departure from his country. While there is still no outright and open criticism of the friars, or
the colonial government, or even of Spain for he may have only been being careful, Rizal by this
time had become a nationalist and had gone abroad for the cause of his countrymen. This is
confirmed by a line from a letter written to him by his friend Vicente Gella, in the same month
he wrote “Love of Country”, June 1882.

6. Why was the organization of La Liga Filipina important to nation-building?

According to the constitution that Rizal prepared, the organization aimed: to unite the
whole archipelago into one compact, vigorous and homogenous body; mutual protection in
every want and necessity; defense against all violence and injustice; encouragement of
instruction, agriculture and commerce. Also, the La Liga Filipina was to build a new group that
sought to involve the people directly in the reform movement.

7. Explain the role of the individual in nation-building.

The people living in a country are responsible for the development and progress of the
nation itself. Out of the total population in any of the nation, 20-30% is constituted of the youth.
The working people and especially young people decide the progress of any of the nations. The
progress of the nation is decided by several measures, i.e. development in science, technology,
health, management, and others. To excel in all these criteria is only possible by youth
empowerment on social, educational, and economical grounds. The youth must be directed in a
 positive direction to get success in all these spheres. The focus on the development and training
for youth must be taken into account. There is a need for proper education and skill
development of the youth so that they can prosper in the right direction. Youth is full of
potential and enthusiasm to work and heed towards success.

8. How valid are Rizal’s ideas in instilling a sense of individual integrity? Are these ideas needed
today? Why?
Integrity is one of the most important and oft-cited virtue terms. It is also perhapsthe
most puzzling. While it is sometimes used synonymously with moral, we also at times distinguish
acting morally from acting with integrity. Thus, personal integrity refers to a quality of an
individual’s character. Acting with personal integrity will always be explained in terms of broader
feature of a person’s character and life. Dr. Rizal is a good example of personal integrity, basing
his actions on an internally consistent framework of principles. His commitment towards
intention, promises and convictions is truly unfathomable. Oftentimes, we find ourselves with so
many commitments, of so many different kinds, and eventually these inevitably clash and
change over time. This makes Dr. Rizal so special; his personal integrity came from steadfast
commitment he expected to remain true to.

9. How can education help promote social progress?

Education is expected to foster social progress through four different but interrelated
purposes: humanistic, through the development of individual and collective human virtues to
their full extent; civic, by the enhancement of public life and active participation in a democratic
society; economic, by providing.

10. Do you think the promotion of the people’s welfare under a colonial system of administration
possible? Why?
Yes, it's definitely possible most of 1960’s to 2010’s Peacekeepers had to be installed to
keep the populous from killing each other in effect of colonialism especially late twentieth
century paternal colonialism did a better job than many independent ex colonies. Of course you
can find the occasional atrocity but generally these atrocities were not condoned even if
punishment were inadequately severe.

11. What is the significance of each of the observations and policies of Rizal on governments? Are
they applicable today? If so, show some examples on their applicability today.
The significance of Rizal’s observations on policies in the Philippines, is promoting equal
rights to its citizen and hearing the opinion of the people. In today somehow its applicable in
securing our territory and maintaining peace in our country. In his one significance observation
the colonizing country must know her colony, my understanding in this is the colonizer must
extend effort to know the country they want to colonize. Example the Spain and Philippines.
12. Discuss the merit of the reforms advocated by Rizal.
His advocacy for reforms in the Philippines under the hands of Spanish colonial
authorities led to his early death at the age of 36. He was executed in Bagumbayan, now called
Luneta, in Manila on December 30, 1896. But his death meant much more for the Filipinos.

13. Was Rizal justified in advocating a policy of assimilation?

According to Rizal’s correspondence to his friend and mentor, Ferdinand Blumentritt, he
already expressed that an assimilation to Spain was a mistake. In his first letter dated Feb. 21,
1887, Rizal said: “The Filipinos had long wished for Hispanization and they were wrong in
aspiring for it.

14. Was Rizal, too, justified in giving up the policy of assimilation? Why
The real problem with Jose Rizal is that he was gone too soon. He never had the chance
to see the social cancer he so aptly described in his two novels, the Noli me tangere and El
Filibusterismo mutate into something more virulent, oppressive, controlling way of life. By being
dead, he could do nothing against the reincarnated social cancer, which continued to wreak
havoc on the lives of the people, whose freedom he had tried to redeem with his blood.

15. Why do you think Rizal told Spain that the political transformation of the Philippines was
inevitable?
First, there is the critique of the colonizers' knowledge of the Philippines. Second, there
are his ideas on the nature and conditions of colonial society. Finally, there are Rizal's
discussions on the meaning of and requirements for emancipation. According to Rizal's logic, the
corrupt Spanish colonial bureaucracy relentlessly exploited the Filipinos, but blamed the
underdevelopment of the people on their presumed indolence. Rizal's aim was to show that this
view was erroneous through recourse to both logic and historical fact.

16. Why is the subordination of personal interest to national interest essential to national unity?
For me it needs to have a personal interest to national unity because without personal
interest you will not going to inspire other people, help them with their needs and promote
change. Example politician, before they become a well-known one they started first in their
town then move to higher position, because they knew they already saw the development they
did and people already trusted them.

17. What do you think were the problems of forging national unity during Rizal’s time?
The real problem with Jose Rizal is that he was gone too soon. He never had the chance
to see the social cancer he so aptly described in his two novels, the Noli me tangere and El
 Filibusterismo mutate into something more virulent, oppressive, controlling way of life. By being
dead, he could do nothing against the reincarnated social cancer, which continued to wreak
havoc on the lives of the people, whose freedom he had tried to redeem with his blood. In
trying to find meaning and relevance between Rizal and the Filipinos after a hundred and fifty
years of his birth, even the shallowest of sceptic could say that the problems are not yet over,
they were never gone, they’ve just been molecularly restructured into something barely
recognizable, and, therefore, generally acceptable. History is a very powerful tool for peace and
progress, for it is only in assessing history that we could justify social change.

18. After analyzing the different efforts of Rizal in building the Filipino nation, show how they
influenced the Philippine revolution.
The national revolution that we had in our country from 1896 to 1901 is one period
when the Filipino people were most united, most involved and most spirited to fight for a
common cause freedom. While all aspects of Jose Rizal’s short but meaningful life were already
explored and exhausted by history writers and biographers, his direct involvement in the
Philippine Revolution that broke out in 1896 remains to be a sensitive and unfamiliar topic. This
turn of events put historians into a great confusion, making Rizal’s stand over the Philippine
Revolution, controversial and debatable, making him both hero and anti-hero. Historical forces
untied by social developments impelled and motivated Rizal to rose up and articulate the
people’s sentiments through his writings. In fact, the revolution ensued even Rizal disagreed
with it. Finally, Constantino argued that to better understand the hero, we should also take
note of his weaknesses and learn from them.

19. After reading the chapter, discuss the relevance of Rizal’s ideas to the efforts of the New
Society in Building a new social order.
Rizal insist on Education as the Instrument for Social Progress A major contribution to
the making of the Filipino nation was Rizal’s insistence on the education of his people, a social
commitment of any government. He considered this as a cornerstone of the reform the country
so urgently needed at the time. So that’s why, Rizal Insist on Education as the Instrument for
Social Progress The Ultimate Means at Nation- Building is National Unity. Rizal advance all
possible arguments in favor of the Filipinos need for Education Without education and liberty
the soil and the sun of mankind, no measured can give the desired result. Rizal’s appeal for
education was not contrary to Spain's aim at Christianizing the Filipinos. If all it was in support of
this, for a true Christian education calls for the development of the whole man. Rizal warned
Spain against the possible outcome that may arise from.