FILIPINO

SOCIAL
THINKERS
 OBJECTIVE:

Examine the social ideas of

Filipino thinkers starting
from Isabelo delos Reyes,
Jose Rizal and other Filipino
intellectuals.
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MECHANICS:
1. The class will be grouped into three (3), their designated topic will
be their group name.

2. You will be given a paper with a word or ‘term’ on it.

3. Each member of the group will give whatever he/she thinks about
the given word. It can either be a word, name of person, place or
thing or a phrase.

4. You have 5 minutes to do the task and the leader will pick a
number and whoever’s seat matches the number will be the one to
explain.
 RUBRICS
COOPERATION- 5
EXPLANATION- 5
CONTENT- 10
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20 POINTS
INDIO
ILUSTRADOS

FILIPINO
 INDIO FILIPINO
- were identified as the -before the 1880s, the term
native indigenous “Filipino” actually referred to
people in all the the people of Spanish
Spanish, America and parentage born in the
Asia possessions. Philippines.

- during the Spanish - It was only late 1880s that

colonial period, the term “Filipino” began to
Chamorros people change to refer to the
were classified as “people from the
indios. Philippines”.
ILUSTRADOS
- by Spanish definition,
ilustrados referred to as the
special class of people who are
educated and learned.
 JOSE RIZAL
-a genuine scholar and one of
the great Filipino thinkers of
all time.

-wrote Noli Me Tangere and

El Filibusterismo.

-started La Liga Filipina to

enlighten the minds of
“Intelligence is the solution to the
ills of the country”
Filipinos.
-He is a well-known reformist that
advocated change through writing
literary pieces. The country's hero tried
to enlighten the minds of the citizens
about social cancer prevalent in the
government, church and society.
 ISABELO DELOS
REYES
-Father of Filipino socialism

-Father of Anthropology and Indigenous

Studies in the Philippines

-labor activist

-initiated labor strikes against American

business firms.

- organized the first labor union (Union

Obrera Democratica Filipina)
 PEDRO PATERNO
-a poet and a novelist

-wrote Sampaguitas y Poesias Varias

(1880) and Ninay (1885)

-considered the “Peacemaker of the

Revolution”

-became the Prime Minister of the First

Philippine Republic

“Forward, Filipinos, and the sun of victory

will shine upon us”
-campaigned the establishment of Filipino church  (
Iglesia Filipina Independiente)

-his most important contribution is the El Folk-Lore

Filipino published in 1889 that contains stories on
local folklores.