Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc of Ateneo, Dr. Rogelio Bayod of Cor Jesu College, and Gerry Arambala of La Salle University in Ozamiz, three active members of the Social Ethics Society, will be joining the 2nd International Public Health Conference hosted by the American University of Sovereign Nations in Arizona, USA, April 9, 2020 (9PM Philippine time). Dr. Maboloc will present a paper on pandemics and cognitive disability,
Dr. Bayod will analyze the relation between distributive and recognitive
justice, and Mr. Arambala will tackle
Ozamiz politics, all under the purview of the Covid-19 global crisis. The event gathers ethics
professors and public health experts around the world to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic. The first segment of the virtual conference had 20 presentations and 50 partipants worldwide. Dr. Darryl Macer, President of AUSN, is the organizer.
Statement of the SES expressing its opposition to the proposal to remove Ethics in the GE Curriculum
We, members of the Board of Directors of the Social Ethics Society, express our strong opposition to the proposal to remove ethics in college. Such move is bereft of merit and is ignorant as to the value and purpose of the teaching of the course, which is thoroughly rooted in the integral and critical function of higher education. The proposal to transfer it to Senior High School deprives college students of the teaching of ethics as a professional course, which is crucial in their civic engagements and the pursuit of a democratic society that can only be grounded in responsible citizenship and critical thinking. The direction of Edcom and its advisers from the technical panels of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) reduces our whole education system into a mode of creating docile workers who will constitute the labor force that will serve the whims and interests of a capital intensive and consumer driven globalized neoliberal economic order. It only breeds our subser...
