Fr. Dexter Veloso, PhD, credits the success of the SES to collective leadership

Fr. Dexter Veloso, PhD, credits the success of the Social Ethics Society to its collective type of leadership. Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc says that the intent of the SES is to provide opportunities to young academics from Mindanao to have a venue where they can present their papers. After more than a decade, the organization he co-founded with the late Dr. Romulo Bautista in 2010 has reached new heights by bringing top local and international scholars to Mindanao. The SES has witnessed the rise of the scholarly outputs of its members. Young academics like Ruben Balotol, Gerry Arambala, Cathy Mae Toquero, and Menelito Mansueto have published excellent papers in prestigious journals here and abroad. Dr. Rogelio Bayod and Dr. Randy Tudy are also two of the most cited in their field.

Dr. Rogelio Bayod is instrumental in the growth of the SES for his dynamic handling of previous events and his unfailing commitment, together with the other officers, to make the SES what it is today. Dr. Ian Clark Parcon has given the SES Journal a newly-found vitality while Prof. Menelito Mansueto has engaged with Dr. Juichiro Tanabe of Waseda University in order to promote Peace and Conflict Studies. Dr. Randy Tudy has made great efforts to coordinate the activities of the SES with the Commission on Higher Education. The SES intends to soar higher with the election of Fr. Dexter Veloso to his 3rd term which starts this year until 2027. The organization currently has 131 members, including 37 with PhDs.

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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