Past SES president conferred "Maxima Cum Laude" by USC

Christopher Ryan Maboloc, the former president of the Social Ethics Society, has been conferred the rare distinction of "Maxima Cum Laude" by the University of San Carlos for his doctorate degree in philosophy during graduation rites held last April 10, 2017 in Cebu City. The distinction is the highest in the graduate school of USC and the first-ever that has been awarded in the history of USC.

Based on the criteria, it is conferred on a graduate with a GPA of not less than 1.07, comprehensive exam average score of not less than 95%, at least one publication in an ISI-Scopus indexed international journal during the course of the doctoral study, and presentation of the doctoral research at an international conference.

Maboloc finished his doctoral studies with a GPA of 1.06, an average score of 95.96% in his comprehensive exams, and an unprecedented four (4) philosophy papers published in Scopus-indexed international journals. He presented a chapter of his dissertation to a group of bioethicists in an international conference held at Perdana University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The title of Maboloc's doctoral dissertation, which he finished writing and defended in one year, is "On Postponing the Question of Disability: Re-thinking the Rawlsian Idea of Impartiality through Difference and the Ethics of Capabilities." The study puts into question the abstract and ahistorical nature of the Rawlsian Original Position. Maboloc was advised by Dr. Charito Pizarro.

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By Menelito Mansueto (MSU-IIT) Christopher Ryan Maboloc is a Davao-based Filipino scholar known for his work in Social and Political Philosophy, Bioethics, Philippine Democracy, and the Philosophy of Technology. He is an Associate Professor at Ateneo de Davao University and a Visiting Professor at Silliman University. His body of work often engages with topics of social justice, structural inequality, and political ethics, particularly in the context of the Philippines. An Erasmus Mundus scholar, the author was trained in political party building and democratic governance at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Bonn and Berlin, Germany. Dr. Maboloc finished AB Philosophy, cum laude, at Ateneo de Davao University under a Yuchengco Foundation scholarship. He has a Masters in Philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University. He holds an Erasmus Mundus Masters in Applied Ethics from Linköping University in Sweden and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway....

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