Social Ethics Society

Dr. Daniel Mishori, senior lecturer at the Department of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, and keynote speaker for the 9th Social Ethics Society Conference in October, will arrive a week early and visit IP Communities in Davao del Sur and Davao Occidental. Dr. Mishori will be housed at Cor Jesu College through the initiative of Dr. Rogelio Bayod and Dr. Randy Tudy. He will also meet with IP advocates and researchers.

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 addr...

Dr. Rogelio Bayod of Cor Jesu College, a member of the Social Ethics Society and co-chair of the Organizing Committee for the 9th SES Conference, has published a paper titled "On the Moral and Democratic Deficits of Philippine Education" which will be 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 Christchurch, New Zealand. The book will be launched this September.