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95Bridging the Gaps between Reason and Reason, Reason and ObjectIn Alfredo P. Co & Paolo A. Bolaños (eds.), ACTA: PROCEEDINGS OF THE QUADRICENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHY CONGRESS (THOMISM AND ASIAN CULTURES: Celebrating 400 Years of Dialogue Across Civilizations), University of Santo Tomas Publishing House. pp. 194-200. 2012.
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29Nominalism, Realism and the Decay of the Press: A Critique of Fake News Using Maritain’s PhilosophyIn Jānis Tālivaldis Ozoliņš (ed.), Education in an Age of Lies and Fake News: Regaining a Love of Truth, Routledge. pp. 166-176. 2022.The article addresses the contemporary issue of fake news, which is taken in the context of the decline of press in the twenty-first century. It exposes the need to rehabilitate the fourth estate so that journalism will not become obsolete. Used in the critique are positions made by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as regards fake news, and the concepts of nominalism, fact and critical realism of Jacques Maritain, a twentieth-century philosopher.
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221Aesthetic Experience and RealismPhilosophy, Culture, and Traditions 11 81-92. 2015.The choice of this topic is a curious one, perhaps, for art seems to be such a personal creation that even its appreciation may be relative and most of the time considered as subjective or reliant on impressions. Whether this idea is rightfully founded or not is reviewed in this paper: Is art’s meaning simply an impression? Does it come to exist merely because of whims and ecstasies? Is the experience of art such that it cannot but be dominated by personal ideas? In answering these questions, I …Read more
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923The Nineteenth-Century Thomist from the Far East: Cardinal Zeferino González, OP (1831–1894)Philippiniana Sacra 56 (167): 277-306. 2021.This article reintroduces Fr. Zeferino González, OP (1831-1894) to scholars of Church history, philosophy, and cultural heritage. He was an alumnus of the University of Santo Tomás in Manila, a Cardinal, and a champion of the revival of Catholic Philosophy that led to the promulgation of Leo XIII’s encyclical Aeterni Patris. Specifically, this essay presents, firstly, the Cardinal’s biography in the context of his experience as a missionary in the Far East; secondly, the intellectual tradition i…Read more
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