FILIPINO SOCIAL THINKERS

Presented by: Jonathan Opial

Largado
 W H AT I S F I L I P I N O S O C I A L
THINKERS?
•INDIVIDUALS WHO CAN BE REGARDED AS
V I S I O N A R I E S T O WA R D T H E I M P R O V E M E N T O F
S O C I E T Y I N A PA R T I C U L A R T I M E .

• G R E AT I N D I V I D U A L S W H O H AV E
C O N T R I B U T E D S I G N I F I C A N T LY T O
DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL
T H O U G H T S A N D P H I L O S O P H Y.
• PROVIDED SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS
T O T H E A D VA N C E M E N T O F T H E
DISCIPLINES OF SOCIAL SCIENCES.
WHO ARE THE FILIPINO SOCIAL
THINKERS?
 • He started La liga Filipina with the
job of enlightening the minds of the
people.
• Believed in Agnostic Deism
• According to him intelligence is the
solution to the ills of the country
DR. JOSE RIZAL
(REFORMIST)
 •Founded KKK (Kataastaasan, Kagalang
galangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng
bayan).
•Transformed the blood compact (sandugo)
as a kinship contract.

A N D R E S B O N I FA C I O
(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
• Filipinos must get rid of slavery; must embrace
liberty again with price, a bloody revolution.

EMILIO
JACINTO
(REVOLUTION
IST)
 • He is one of the follower of Political Pragmatism.
• Believed in Social Darwinism - governments are
the products of political struggles for survival.

ANUEL L. QUEZON
(POLITICAL
PHILOSOPHER)
 • Individuals cannot forever remain in solitude.
• He believed in Social Differences.
• Human rights cannot be guaranteed unless the
citizens first do their obligations towards the
state.

J O S E P. L A U R E L
(POLITICAL
PHILOSOPHER)
 •According to him, colonal experience
has developed a captive consciousness. An
effect of this is "crab mentality". This is
the tendency to those on top of the
hierarchy to push those below while those
below to pul down those up above.

R E N AT O
C O N S TA N T I N O
( N AT I O N A L I S T )
 • According to him , "History can be read as a
poem in the same way a poem can read as
history."

C E R I L O B A U T I S TA
(POLITICAL
THEORIST)
 • Father of Filipino Socialism.
• Initiated labor strikes against American business
firms.
• Founded 'El Ilocano'
• He organized the first labor union, Union Obrera
Democratica Filipina, and the Mother Tongue based
Multilingual Education

ISABELO DELOS REYES

(LABOR
ACTIVIST/ANTHROPOL
OGIST)
 • He introduced the "TAYO" concept.
• Believes that education must secure for every Filipino
the fullest measure of efficiency, freedom, and
happiness.

CAMILO
OSIAS
THANK YOU!!