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.
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 finished AB Philosophy, cum laude, at Ateneo de Davao University under a Yuchengco Foundation scholarship. He has a Masters in Philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University. He holds an Erasmus Mundus Masters in Applied Ethics from Linköping University in Sweden and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway....