The Social Ethics Society (SES) will hold a Strategic Planning Session this month. The officers led by Fr. Dexter Veloso have a fresh three-year mandate. "Mindanao's first and only philosophical association will be forward-looking in terms of its role," the SES statement says. "The pandemic has brought big challenges but at the same time, the organization has also taken advantage of the available online technology to reach out to more students and teachers through its webinars," the statement adds. The participants to the hybrid in-person and online activity are Fr. Veloso (President), Dr. Roger Bayod (VP), Dr. Moises Torrentira (Sec), Fr. Banny Pardillo (Treas), Dr. Randy Tudy (Auditor), Mr. Ian Parcon (PIO), Mr. Gerry Arambala (BOD), Mr. Migs Mansueto (BOD), Mr. Giovanni Udtohan (BOD), and Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc (Chair). Dr. Randy Tudy and Dr. Roger Bayod will be the facilitators.
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...