SES in 2024 - A Report

As the year slowly winds down, let's talk about the accomplishments of the Social Ethics Society for 2024. We are grateful to all the men and women who have contributed to the growth and success of the SES in the many years of its existence as it continues to pursue its mission and vision.

The 14th Social Ethics Society Conference was held in February at Haven's Dew Resort in Kapatagan, Davao del Sur. A total of 60 participants joined the in-person event that was held at the beautiful venue. There were 35 papers delivered including five plenary lectures from leading scholars and thinkers.

The Social Ethics Society Journal of Applied Philosophy released the special Issue on Philippine Politics and Society with papers from leading scholars here and abroad. The editor of the issue was Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc. It documents the critical progress in Philippine society and democracy.

The Social Ethics Society released two books in 2024, The Future in the Writings of a Moral Philosopher by Dr. Romulo Bautista, published posthumously and Critical Questions: Vantage Points from the South, a collection of essays by members of the SES. It is edited by Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc

Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, the chair of SES Board of Directors, participated in the World Congress of Philosophy in Rome, Italy. He delivered a paper on Iris Marion Young's Politics of Difference and the problem of cultural Imperialism. The trip was supported by a grant from Ateneo de Davao University.

The midyear online 6th Politics and Culture Conference of the SES was held in October. A total of 45 papers were delivered, including plenary lectures from Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, Dr. Layne Hartsell, Dr. Juichiro Tanabe, Dr. Rec Eguia and Dr. Daniel Mishori. North Valley College hosted the event with MSU-IIT.

The Social Ethics Society, in cooperation with the Theology Department of Ateneo de Davao University and North Valley College, held a Philosophy of Science Webinar. Dr. Rogelio Bayod, Dr. Layne Hartsell, Dr. Juichiro Tanabe and Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc delivered papers on a host of topics, including cloning and Artificial Intelligence.

The SES World Philosophy Day was held at North Valley College in November. Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc and Dr. Ian Clark Parcon gave lectures on the nature of Liberal Democracy and on Information Ethics respectively. More than a thousand students joined to listen to the lectures. The event was hosted by North Valley College and chaired by Dr. Rogelio Bayod.

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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