Social Ethics Society

The Social Ethics Society, in cooperation with Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology and Waseda University, will hold the Peace and Conflict Studies Webinar Series with Prof. Juichiro Tanabe as the Main Lecturer, together with local academics as invited speakers. The webinar series will be done via Zoom. The first event will be held on September 30, 2023. Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc of Ateneo de Davao University and Prof. Gerry Arambala of MSU GenSan will discuss topics such as terrorism and global poverty. The speakers in forthcoming events include Prof. Ruben Balotol of STI College, Ormoc, Dr. Rogelio Bayod of Cor Jesu College, and Dr. Ian Clark Parcon of Ateneo de Davao University. Prof. Migs Mansueto is the moderator and organizer. Registration is free. For more information, please email the organizer at migs_mansueto@yahoo.com. 

Dr. Juichiro Tanabe (Waseda University), Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc (Ateneo) and Prof. Gerry Arambala (MSU - General Santos) will headline this online seminar which will be held on September 30, 2023 from 11am to 2pm via Zoom. MSU Prof. Menelito Mansueto will once again host the event. For more info, please send a message to the host at migs_mansueto@yahoo.com. This event is organized by the Social Ethics Society and Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology Philosophy Department. 

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 agonis...

The First Technological Innovation in Education, Gender & Ecological Sustainability Conference will be hosted by the Bohol Island State University this coming December 2023. This was revealed by Prof. Francis Jeus Ibanez, the research chair for BISU Main Campus. The event will be under the College of Advanced Studies and will be participated in by teachers, students and researchers. The invited speakers include Dr. Ruby Suazo of the University of San Carlos, Dr. Noel Parinas of UPLB, Dr. Godiva Eviota-Rivera of Mindanao State University in Marawi, and Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc of Ateneo de Davao University. 

Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc has received a grant from the Ateneo de Davao University to fund his research project entitled "Holistic Peace and the Mindanao Problem: Tracing the Roots of a Historical Injustice through the Politics of Difference." The research will be for eight months and will include data gathering, focused group discussions, and ultimately, the writing, presentation, and publication of a paper. The grant will come from the University Research Council, (URC).  According to Dr. Maboloc, the research is a post-modern approach into the problem of peace. The researcher will use the lens of Iris Marion Young's Politics of Difference. It is an attempt to use conflict studies as a way to overcome the limits of the liberal concept of peace-building which, while democratic, is largely state-centric. It will also consider the efforts of lesser known scholars in the region to give new insights beyond what now seems to be the orthodox interpretation of the age-old Mi...

The Philosophy Department of MSU Marawi will be launching its Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person textbook in December 2023. According to Dr. Godiva Eviota-Rivera, the book's editor, eight faculty members of the department are co-authors of the project. Atty. Aurora Lyn Racmat, chair of the Philosophy Department, said that the textbook will be used by the university's Senior High School and will be introduced to other schools in the whole Bangsamoro region.  The book is novel in the sense that it will be the first in the country to incorporate Islamic perspectives on philosophical thinking and its method. The book will also discuss the concept of human embodiment and sociality, and the views of prominent Muslim scholars on the environment and climate change, human freedom, death, and intersubjectivity. The writers of the eight different chapters are Omera M. Serad, Atty. Racmat, Ni'mah Ummu Hani Barra, Norhaya Amerol, Carla Karmille Bernaldez-Litera, Khalid...

Menelito Mansueto has been appointed as the new Managing editor of the Social Ethics Society Journal of Applied Philosophy. The term of Mansueto begins next month until July 31, 2025. Mansueto teaches ethics and philosophy courses at the Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology. He has published local and international papers in philosophy, ethics and local history.