FILIPINO SOCIAL THINKERS REVIEW

He wrote Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo—that depicted the sad state of the Philippines, his political essays, and his annotations of Antonio Morga’s history of the Philippines.

• Andres Bonifacio

• Emilio Jacinto

• Jose Rizal

• Manuel Luis Quezon

In a colonial situation where both will and thinking are suppressed, where intellectual fanaticism is the rule, where one`s will is conditioned to submit to tyranny, it is intellectual liberty that comes primary.

• Jose P. Laurel

• Manuel Luis Quezon

• Jose Rizal

• Emilio Jacinto

Founded Katipunan/KKK (Kataastaasan, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan ng mga anak ng bayan)

• Juan Luna

• Emilio Jacinto

• Marcelo H. Del Pilar

• Andres Bonifacio

Believed in social Darwinism – governments are products of political struggles for survival

• Manuel Luis Quezon

• Renato Constantino

• R. Esquirel Embuscado

• Cirilo Bautista

Human rights cannot be guaranteed unless the citizens first do their obligations towards the state.

• Jose P. Laurel

• Renato Constantino

• Claro R. Centeza

• Rolando M. Gripaldo

`TAYO` concept

• Camilo Osias

• Isabelo Delos Reyes

• Claro R. Centeza

• Cirilo Bautista

Colonial experience has developed a captive consciousness. An effect of this `crab mentality`. This is the tendency to those on top of hierarchy to push those below while those below to pull down those up above.

• Claro R. Centeza

• Rolando M. Gripaldo

• Renato Constantino

• Camilo Osias

As a painter, he believed that the task of an authentic artist is to cut the umbilical cord of the past, to make use of the present, and to protect that present to the open future. He called this art of `dissectionism`.

• R. Esquirel Embuscado

• Cirilo Bautista

• Claro R. Centeza

• Rolando M. Gripaldo

History can be read as a poem in the same way a poem can be read as history.

• Cirilo Bautista

• Isabelo Delos Reyes

• Rolando M. Gripaldo

• Camilo Osias

Father of Filipino socialism

• Camilo Osias

• Cirilo Bautista

• Claro R. Centeza

• Isabelo Delos Reyes