RADICAL POLITICS IN THE PHILIPPINES - SOCIAL ETHICS SOCIETY JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHILOSOPHY (SPECIAL ISSUE)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The work of Dr. Ian Clark Parcon on agonism and its possibilities for Philippine democracy is instructive and supplements the critical assessment of Benjiemen Labastin on the subject matter. Rooted in historical data and bereft of any ideological bias, the two works represent the mature understanding of what Philippine democracy is. Wataru Kusaka's writings on the concept of moral politics is an important element in putting into context the rise of Rodrigo Duterte to the presidency. The thesis of Christopher Ryan Maboloc on the subject matter depends largely on what he claims was the failure of EDSA People Power to transform Philippine Society, an observation first advanced by the political scholar Dr. Julio Teehankee.

It's important to put things into context and not be misled by the prejudiced judgment of those who disagree with Duterte's radical leadership. The Philippines remains to be under the control of the oligarchy. But while this is so, the agonism one finds in Duterte's style is apparent in terms of his impact. A case in point is the Bangsamoro. Duterte at the time represented the marginalized Muslim community in the South. He was the first President to carry the agenda of Muslim Filipinos in terms of rectifying the historical injustices they suffered from Spain and under ilustrado politics. Labastin's paper, which distinguished the substantive from the procedural aspect of democracy, remains critical.

This issue hopes to gather the insights of emerging researchers and scholars on what has become a pivotal moment in the history of the country's intellectual progress, which is evident in the growth of the literature on the subject matter, originally found in the works of Chantal Mouffe. Gerry Arambala's book on the rise and fall of the Parojinogs of Ozamiz is a good example. What needs to be understood here is that any advance in true scholarship goes beyond mere exposition and must argue with vigor and courage to do real justice to the questions that matter, not just for the philosopher but the ordinary reader as well, who is often a victim of the idiosyncrasies of others.

The specific areas of concern can be wide ranging, including Democracy and Human Rights, Leadership and Good Governance, Peace and Conflict Studies, Hegemony and International Relations, the Bangsamoro Region, and Religion in the Public Sphere. Manuscripts are due on November 30, 2023. This Special Issue is scheduled to be released in early 2024. Dr. Ian Clark Parcon and Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc are co-editors. Articles must be at least 5,000 words. The limit is set at 8,000 words. Please send your completed manuscript to any of the co-editors: crbmaboloc@addu.edu.ph or icrparcon@addu.edu.ph

Christopher Ryan Maboloc: An Intellectual Biography

By Menelito Mansueto (MSU-IIT) Christopher Ryan Maboloc is a Davao-based Filipino scholar known for his work in Social and Political Philosophy, Bioethics, Radical Democracy, and the Ethics of Technology. He is an Associate Professor at Ateneo de Davao University and a Visiting Professor at Silliman University. Dr. Maboloc was an ASAP - Yale Global Justice Fellow where he was mentored by the renowned philosopher Thomas Pogge. 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. He was the Erasmus Mundus (EM) Representativ...

Statement of the SES expressing its opposition to the proposal to remove Ethics in the GE Curriculum

We, members of the Board of Directors of the Social Ethics Society, express our strong opposition to the proposal to remove ethics in college. Such move is bereft of merit and is ignorant as to the value and purpose of the teaching of the course, which is thoroughly rooted in the integral and critical function of higher education. The proposal to transfer it to Senior High School deprives college students of the teaching of ethics as a professional course, which is crucial in their civic engagements and the pursuit of a democratic society that can only be grounded in responsible citizenship and critical thinking. The direction of Edcom and its advisers from the technical panels of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) reduces our whole education system into a mode of creating docile workers who will constitute the labor force that will serve the whims and interests of a capital intensive and consumer driven globalized neoliberal economic order. It only breeds our subser...

Statement of the SES BOD Chair

The Social Ethics Society was founded in 2010 by the late Dr. Romulo Bautista, a professor at Ateneo de Davao University who did his doctorate on Marx at the University of Madrid in Spain, and Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, then a young teacher at Ateneo de Davao. The first SES Conference was held at the University of Mindanao. Its original membership was only 15, consisting mainly of the masters students of the two founders. While in the peripheries of academia, the SES pursued its goals of helping teachers in Mindanao develop their craft in ways that is consistent with philosophy as an exercise of the human will and as the highest expression of the human intellect. When its proponents presented the concept, it was suggested that the Union of Philosophical Societies and Associations in the Philippines (USAPP) will lobby for a new bill that will professionalize philosophy in the country. That was in 2018. Top UST philosophy academics, upon the invitation of Peter Elicor, attended t...

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