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Gonzales, Timothy Joseph C.

Dr. Abulad’s discussion of Kong-Zi’s understanding of man is deeply

rooted on the several views formed by the great minds of Western Philosophy
like Heidegger, Kant, Rawls, Hegel and Plato. For Dr. Abulad, Kong-Zi’s notion
of Great man is an action and path to be undertaken and chosen, however,
before we could even land on the right path, it requires the three most
important things that a man should possess in forming a refined and purified
thought. Education, cultivation and formation are the qualities that a man
should developed at his prime, the journey of man towards outside the cavee
to be enlightened can be perfectly seen and demonstrated in the
determination and sheer will of the people to the pursuit of education, and in
this activity of man by learning various things and continuous reflection and
contemplation of what he had learned, the man, unconsciously, begins the
process of becoming a superior, learned and great man, IN the last part, Dr.
Abulad sees a great man as one who is born naturally good, but rather the
unity of our thought and purified will leads man to a continuous process of
perfection of his thoughts, words and actions, so that can too share he
goodness that he had learned with others, and collectively build a nation
grounded in peace and harmony.