SES adds 12 new members to its roster

The Social Ethics Society added twelve more members to its roster, bringing the total to 131. This was revealed after the 14th SES Conference. Attendance to its annual conference is one of the requirements for membership, as well as a recommendation from any of the members of the Board. The BOD of the SES approves the same after due consideration. The SES is the first and only philosophical organization in Mindanao. It is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It is also a member of the Union of Philosophical Associations in the Philippines. The SES was founded by Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc and the late Dr. Romulo Bautista in 2010. The new members are as follows, with their roster number

120. Jeremy Glenn Tuvida

Ateneo de Davao University

121. Karl Exala

Ateneo de Davao University

122. Leo Lusanez

Ateneo de Davao University

123. Diane Auza

Ateneo de Davao University

124. Dr. Daniel Mishori

Tel Aviv Univesity

125. Prof. Dennis Bautista

Leyte Normal University

126. Dr. Ninoval Pacaol

Barauen Community College

127. Mary Eimerin Tumulak

Barauen Community College

128. Dr. Rodel Ponferrada

Eastern Visayas State University

129. Jholy Nobabos

Holy Cross of Davao College

130. Marlou Nar

Southern Christian College

131. Genaro Tanlogon Jr.

North Valley College

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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