Menelito Mansueto of Colegio de San Juan de Letran has been appointed by Fr. Dexter Veloso, SES president, upon the recommendation of Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, chairman of the Board, as liaison officer for Luzon of the Social Ethics Society. Mr. Mansueto will likewise have a seat in the Board of Directors, together with Mr. Adrian Udtohan (Mindanao) and Mr. Gerry Arambala (Visayas). His term is from January 2021 to October 2023. Mr. Mansueto is taking a doctorate in communications at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. He has taught philosophy at the University of Santo Thomas and at Far Eastern University - Diliman.
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 is the author of two books, Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte and The Question of Justice in Contemporary Liberal Theory. He is the editor of the two-volume Ethics in Contemporary Philippine Society, a collection of essays by Filipino scholars and academics, notably from Mindanao. He also authored several textbooks, including Et...