Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc's "The Ethics of Justice in Liberal Theory" paper has been included in the book Legacies of Love, Hope and Peace: How Education can Overcome Hatred and Divide. The book is edited by Dr. Darryl Macer and is published by the Eubios Ethics Institute in New Zealand. This is the second international book chapter publication of the young associate professor from Ateneo de Davao University. His first paper was "Equal Justice and Social Inclusion" in the book Philosophy and Practice of Bioethics Across and Between Cultures which was published earlier this year in Japan.
The paper concludes the personal desire of Dr. Maboloc to personally study the Holocaust and the Nazi regime. He examines the reflections of Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism and analyzes the relation between power and freedom. The paper explains the roots of the liberal tradition and draws its insights from John Rawls, Michael Sandel, and Dr. Zosimo Lee. The paper addresses the problem of exclusion and seeks to reconcile liberty with the values of the community through the concept of the public good as the common ground in the debate between liberals and communitarians.
