Discipline and Ideas in Social Sciences

1. THE FILIPINO SOCIAL
THINKERS

2. Dr. JOSE RIZAL
(Reformist)
◈ 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. 2

3. ANDRES BONIFACIO
(Revolutionist)
◈ Founded KKK
(Kataastaasan, Kagalang
galangang Katipunan ng mga
Anak ng Bayan).
◈ Transformed the blood
compact (sandugo) as a
kinship contract.
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4. 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.
◈ Filipinos must get rid of
slavery; must embrace liberty
again with a price, a bloody
revolution. 4

5. MANUEL LUIS QUEZON
(Political
Philosopher)
◈ He is one of the follower of
Political Pragmatism.
◈ Believed in Social Darwinism –
governments are products of
political struggles for survival.
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6. JOSE P. LAUREL
(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.
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7. RENATO CONSTANTINO
(Nationalist)
◈ According to him, colonial 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 pull down those up
above.
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8. CERILO BAUTISTA
(Political Theorist)
◈ According to him, “History can be read
as a poem in the same way a poem can
be read as history.”
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9. R. 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.”
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10. 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, and the Mother
Tongue based Multilingual Education 10

11. CAMILO OSIAS
◈ He introduced the “TAYO”concept.
◈ Believes that education must secure for
every Filipino the fullest measure of
efficiency, freedom, and happiness.
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12. VICENTE SINCO, FRANCISCO DALUPAN, CONRADO AQUINO
◈ Pioneers of Liberal Education. Liberal Education – an
approach to learning that empowers individuals and repairs
them to deal with complexity, diversity, and change.
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13. THANKS!
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