Social Ethics Society

Dr. Daniel Mishori, senior lecturer at the Department of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, and keynote speaker for the 9th Social Ethics Society Conference in October, will arrive a week early and visit IP Communities in Davao del Sur and Davao Occidental. Dr. Mishori will be housed at Cor Jesu College through the initiative of Dr. Rogelio Bayod and Dr. Randy Tudy. He will also meet with IP advocates and researchers.

Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc's "The Ethics of Justice in Liberal Theory" paper has been included in the book Legacies of Love, Hope and Peace: How Education can Overcome Hatred and Divide. The book is edited by Dr. Darryl Macer and is published by the Eubios Ethics Institute in New Zealand. This is the second international book chapter publication of the young associate professor from Ateneo de Davao University. His first paper was "Equal Justice and Social Inclusion" in the book Philosophy and Practice of Bioethics Across and Between Cultures which was published earlier this year in Japan. The paper concludes the personal desire of Dr. Maboloc to personally study the Holocaust and the Nazi regime. He examines the reflections of Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism and analyzes the relation between power and freedom. The paper explains the roots of the liberal tradition and draws its insights from John Rawls, Michael Sandel, and Dr. Zosimo Lee. The paper addr...

Dr. Rogelio Bayod of Cor Jesu College, a member of the Social Ethics Society and co-chair of the Organizing Committee for the 9th SES Conference, has published a paper titled "On the Moral and Democratic Deficits of Philippine Education" which will be included in the book Legacies of Love, Hope and Peace: How Education can Overcome Hatred and Divide. The book is edited by Dr. Darryl Macer and is published by the Eubios Ethics Institute in Christchurch, New Zealand. The book will be launched this September.

The Commission on Higher Education has endorsed the 9th Social Ethics Society Conference to be held at Cor Jesu College in Digos, Davao del Sur, this October 28-30, 2019. This year's theme: "Environmental Philosophy, Climate Justice and Global Sustainability." The keynote speaker is Dr. Daniel Mishori from Tel Aviv University. The invited plenary speakers are Dr. Marlon Lofredo of St. Paul University, Dr. Al Quillope of Notre Dame of Marbel, Fr. Dexter Veloso of the St. Francis Xavier College Seminary, and Dr. Napoleon Mabaquiao of De La Salle University.

1. "Science and Religion: The Challenge of Climate Change"     - Victor Aguilan (Silliman University) 2. "Theorizing Mamanuan Diaspora: From Vanishing Mediator to Performative Indigeneity"       - Jan Grecil Kahambing (Leyte Normal University) 3. "Taoism and Environmental Awareness"     - Sheldon Ives Agaton (Eastern Visayas State University) 4. "Technological Domination and Emancipation at the Heart of Being Human: The Dialectic of Humans and Technology"     - Menelito Mansueto (Colegio de San Juan de Letran) 5. "Biomimicry: A Philosophy of Environmental Sustainability" -       - Briaflo de Padua (University of Santo Thomas) 6. "The Resurgence of Authoritarianism in the 2016 Presidential Elections and the Need to Deepen Philippine Democracy"      - Benjiemen Labastin (La Salle University - Ozamiz) 7. "The Ecosophy of Paciencia Milan and Marlito Bande: Visayas State University Rainforestatio...

Mindanao, an island of awe-inspiring beauty and colorful history, did not have a philosophical association before the birth of the Social Ethics Society. Philosophy teachers, however, were either affiliated with the Philosophical Association of the Philippines or the Philosophical Association of the Visayas and Mindanao. The society, or SES for short, germinated from the vision of the late Dr. Romulo Bautista, who taught at Ateneo de Davao University, and Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, who was then fresh from his studies abroad. The latter was chair of the philosophy department at the Ateneo de Davao University when he first encountered the former, whose teachings have been mostly associated with the philosophy of Marx. Dr. Maboloc, on the other hand, admired the political theory of Rawls. His background in applied ethics helped define the nature of Mindanao's first philosophical association. Many of the pioneering members of the SES were master’s students of the two profess...