THE SOCIAL

FILIPINO THINKERS
JOSE P. RIZAL
 Intelligence is the solution to the
ills of the country.
 Their (Filipino) consciousness
should be freed from fanacticism,
docility, inferiority, and
hopelessness.
 Started LA LIGA FILIPINA with
the job of enlightening the minds of
the people.
ANDRES BONIFACIO
 Founded Katipunan/KKK
(Kataastaasan, Kagalanggalang
Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan),
which aims to liberate the Filipinos in a
bloody way
 Transformed the blood compact
(sandugo) as a kinship contract
 It ( revolution) is not between the
government and the governed, it is
about the colonized and the colonizers.
ISABELO DELOS REYES
 Father of Filipino Socialism
 Organized the first labor union,
Union Obrera Democratica
Filipina
- to improve working conditons
through protective labor legislation
 Initiated labor strikes against
American business firms and
friar-owned haciendas
 RAFAEL PALMA
 Advocated “Academic Freedom”
 The primary purpose of education is to develop
the individual to his highest efficiency so that
he can be use to himself and to the community.
Such a concept is absed on the philosophy of
altruism and is closely allied to citizenship.
 “ Education must produce individuals who are
both useful to themselves and to society”
ZEUS SALAZAR
 Pantayang Pananaw – From-us-For-us-
Perspective, “… Dapat pag-aralan ang ugat at
kalagayan ng kapwa Pilipino sa Pilipinas
alinsunod sa punto de bista ng Pilipino at
sariling diskursong taglay nito.”
 Kasaysayan bilang salaysay na may saysay
para sa sinasalaysayang pangkat ng tao.
 RENATO CONSTATINO
 Colonial experience has developed a captive
consciousness; hence “ colonial mentality”, a
distorted consciousness which encompasses
subservient attitude towards the colonial ruler,
as well as predisposition aping Western ways
 “When one makes a nationalist choice, he or
she chooses not for himself or herself alone
but for the entire nation as well.”
VIRGILIO ENRIQUEZ
 Father of Filipino Psychology
 Sikolohiyang Pilipino, defined as the
psychology rooted on the experience, ideas,
and cultural orientation of the Filipino.
 Kapwa ( Togetherness) as core construct of
the Filipino Psychology.