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Menelito Mansueto Jr.: The dynamic young scholar from Bohol


One of the finest young scholars to emerge in the midst of a turbulent politics in Philippine Society comes from Bohol. A student of the late Dr. Eddie Babor, in whose time as leader and president of PHAVISMINDA, philosophy became an important fixture outside of the capital, Mr. Menelito Mansueto Jr. is a full-time faculty member at the Philosophy Department of Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology. Mansueto has written extensively on Philippine Democracy and Mass Media, the Value System in Philippine History, a chapter in the book Ethics in Contemporary Philippine Society, and President Rodrigo Duterte's radical approach to politics. He has taught at the University of Santo Tomas, Far Eastern University - Diliman, and the Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Manila. He is a member of the Board of the Social Ethics Society. 

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