Ethics, A Flourishing Life, by Gleemoore Makie, PhD, provides students with the necessary steps in understanding the theories, principles, and issues to understand the role of moral reasoning in their lives. Written with great zeal, the text begins with the meaning of moral agency and proceeds with care to explain the theories and issues. Students will also be asked to give their insights on the poems with social and moral themes written by the author. Dr. Makie first taught philosophy at Saint Louis University in Baguio City. He had a 12 year teaching stint at the Philippine Military Academy. He is now a faculty member of the Urdaneta City University handling ethics and general philosophy. Dr. Makie's research interests include IP Research, Indigenous Music, and Military Ethics. Dr. Makie is a member of the Philosophical Association of Northern Luzon.
Professor Thomas Pogge of Yale University will be the mentor of Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc in the ASAP Global Justice Program Fellowship at Yale University. Prof. Pogge is the author of World Poverty and Human Rights. Dr. Maboloc will write his research on structural issues in Muslim Mindanao using the perspectives of Iris Marion Young and Thomas Pogge. ASAP is an acronym for Academics Stand Against Poverty. According to its website, it utilizes "scholarship to influence policy and public attitudes to poverty. Established in 2010, (ASAP) is a non-partisan, independent global organization aiming to eradicate severe poverty worldwide." It is based in New Haven, Connecticut. It is under the Global Justice Program at Yale. Fourteen scholars around the world were chosen for the ASAP Program. Pogge is the most prominent scholar on global justice. He proposed the global difference principle as a critique to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. Rawls was Pogge's adviser at H...