FILIPINO

SOCIAL
THINKERS
JOSE RIZAL
(REFORMIST)
•Intelligence is the solution to the ills of the country.

•Their consciousness should be freed from fanaticism, docility,

inferiority, and hopelessness.

•He started La Liga Filipina with the job of enlightening the minds
of the people.

•Believed in Agnostic Deism – the view that God created the

universe with its law, never to interfere with it again.

•“Human problems are irrational human creations and can be

solved through rational solutions. If reason commits mistakes,
only reason can correct them.”

•“What is the use of independence if the slaves of today will be

the tyrants of tomorrow?”
 ANDRES
BONIFACIO
(REVOLUTIONIST)
• Founded Katipunan/KKK. (Kataastaasan,
Kagalanggalangang Katipunan ng mga Anak
ng Bayan)

• His philosophy of revolution was published in

the revolutionary newspaper , “Kalayaan”.

• Transformed the blood compact (sandugo) as

a kinship contract.

• According to him, a revolution of war is

justified when there is breach of contract.
EMILIO JACINTO
(REVOLUTIONIST)
• He capitalized on the idea of a free reign of
reason, of the freedom to think and do, rather
than the freedom to will and do. (Gripaldo, 2002)

• In a colonial situation where both will and

thinking are suppressed, where intellectual
fanaticism is the rule, where one’s will is
conditioned to submit to tyranny, it is intellectual
liberty that comes primary.

• Filipinos must get rid of slavery; must embrace

liberty again with a price, a bloody revolution.
MANUEL LUIS QUEZON
(POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER)
•Political pragmatism & political operation for an eventual Philippine
independence.

•Political Pragmatism – “one must fight for a goal but if obstacles towards that
goal are difficult to summon.

•then one must fall back to an alternative that is better than nothing provided it’s
in the right direction.”

•Believed in Social Darwinism – governments are products of political struggles

for survival.

•“Partyless Democracy” – political parties influence the politician, the people.

•Believed in the democratization of education for all, national language, and

justice.

•Equal access to essential raw materials.

JOSE P. LAUREL
(POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER)
• Individuals cannot forever remain in solitude.

• Social differences

• Human rights cannot be guaranteed unless

the citizens first do their obligations towards
the state.”

• Good governance is founded on

righteousness and foreign relations must be
based on full reciprocal rights and privileges
between and among nations.”
RENATO CONSTANTINO
(NATIONALIST)
• Colonial experience has developed a captive
consciousness. An effect of this “crab
mentality”. This is the tendency to those on
top

• This is the tendency to those on top of the

hierarchy to push those below while those
below to pull down those up above.

• When one makes a nationalist choice, he or

she chooses not for himself or herself alone
but for the entire nation as well.”
ESQUIREL EMBUSCADO
(DISSECTIONIST)
• As a painter, he believed that the task of
an authentic artist is to cut the umbilical
cord of the past, to make use of the
present, and to protect that present to
the open future.

• He called this art of “dissectionism.”

• True art must not be part-oriented, but

present-future oriented.
CIRILO BAUTISTA
(POLITICAL THEORIST)
•“RubberToner” – a poem
•“History can be read as a
poem in the same way a
poem can be read as
history.”
CLARO R. CENTEZA
(META PHYSICIAN)
• To “exist” is to “stand
out.”

• To “exist” is “to make a

difference.”
ROLANDO M. GRIPALDO
(CIRCUMSTANTIALIST)
• •“Free choice” - Choices are
done in situations, which are
of 2 broad types: rational and
non- rational.
ISABELO DELOS REYES
(LABOR ACTIVIST/ ANTHROPOLOGIST)
•Father of Filipino Socialism •Initiated
labor strikes against American business
firms

•Founded ‘El Ilocano’ •He organized the

first labor union, Union Obrera
Democratica Filipina

•MotherTongue based Multilingual

Education
 TEODORO M. KALAW
(So-called Father of Philippine Libraries)
• Published Cinko Reglas de
Nuestra Moral Antigua
Camilo Osías
(Politician)
• “TAYO” concept

• Believes that education must

secure for every Filipino the
fullest measure of efficiency,
freedom, and happiness
 VICENTE SINCO,
FRANCISCO
DALUPAN,
CONRADO AQUINO
• Liberal Education – an approach to learning
that empowers individuals and repairs them to
deal with complexity, diversity, and change.
• Sinco envisioned the need for well-trained
teachers as one of the essential factors to
improve the quality of the educational
program in schools.
• Aquino also stressed that those responsible for
the education of the citizens must also educate
them in the fullness of their rational nature.
END OF THE TOPIC

THAT’S ALL
THANK YOU!
SUBMITTED BY: JOHN CLARENCE S. DELA CRUZ
GRADE AND SECTION: 11-HUMSS D
SUBMITTED TO: MS. RUTH MADRIAGA