Topnotch researchers and academics have joined the roster of members of the Social Ethics Society. The new SES members include Dr. Rec Eguia of the University of Southeastern Philippines, Prof. Bernardo Caslib Jr of the University of the Philippines in Manila, Prof. Anton Heinrich Rennesland of the University of Santo Tomas, Dr. Roberto Roldan Jr of Abra State Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Joezenon Purog of the Eastern Visayas State University, Mr. Glenford Franca of SPAMAST, and Prof. Roland Aparece of the University of Bohol. The Board of Directors approved their induction into the SES on the basis of the recommendation by Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, SES Chair.
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...