JOSE RIZAL

REFORMIST
He who does not know how to look back at where he came
from will never get to his destination.”
CONTRIBUTIONS: He was the one who led the Filipinos to start
a revolution against the Spanish Government to attain
freedom and to gain control of the country.

M
ANUEL L. QUEZON

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER
CONTRIBUTIONS: He was the first Filipino to head a government of
the entire Philippines (as opposed to the government of previous
Philippine states) and is considered to have been the second president
of the Philippines, after Emilio Aguinaldo (1899–1901), whom Quezon
defeated in the 1935 presidential election.
“I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a
government run like heaven by any foreigner.”
 CIRILO BAUTISTA

POLITICAL THEORIST
“Nevertheless, we laughed as best we could
Because we are helpless while we are loved.”

Contributions: Thus, Bautista contributed to the

development of Philippine literature: as a writer, through his
significant body of works; as a teacher, through his
discovery and encouragement of young writers in workshops
and lectures; and as a critic, through his essays that
provided insights into the craft of writing and correctives to
misconceptions about art.

R. ESQUIREL EMBUSCADO
DISSECTIONIST
Contributions: As a painter, he believed
that the task of an authentic artist is to
cut the umbilical cord of the past, to make
use the present and to protect that
present to the open future.

He called his philosophy of art

“dissectionism”
 ROLANDO M. GRIPALDO

CIRCUMSTANTIALIST


Rolando M. Gripaldo Philosophy is here viewed
broadly as a label or name that transcends the
quarrels of diverse philosophical schools which
attempt to exclude one another from this label.

CONTRIBUTIONS: He is currently the Executive

Governor of the Philippine National Philosophical
Research Society and the Editor of "Philosophia.