The Social Ethics Society, in partnership with Cor Jesu College and La Salle University - Ozamiz, successfully conducted the 3rd leg of its 2021 Webinar Series. Asst. Prof. Menelito Mansueto of Letran gave a very scathing critique of the EDSA narrative while Dr. Rogelio Bayod discussed the state of indigenous peoples (IP) in the post-IPRA Philippines. Japanese scholar Asuna Yoshizawa of Kyoto University explored the cohabitation between Christians and Muslims in the Southern Philippines while Dean Benjiemen Labastin of La Salle put into question the thesis describing Philippine politics and society as a contested democracy. The event was hosted by Dr. Randy Tudy. LSU Philo Chair Gerry Arambala gave the rationale while Fr. Urbano Pardillo Jr. in closing pointed out the value of studying our history as people.
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...