•  2349
    This paper is an attempt to localize Herman and Chomsky’s analysis of the commercial media and use this concept to fit in the Philippine media climate. Through the propaganda model, they introduced the five interrelated media filters which made possible the “manufacture of consent.” By consent, Herman and Chomsky meant that the mass communication media can be a powerful tool to manufacture ideology and to influence a wider public to believe in a capitalistic propaganda. Thus, they call their the…Read more
  •  1331
    Miranda Fricker's Epistemic Injustice: An Attempt at Appropriation of Philippine Social Realities
    Social Ethics Society Journal of Applied Philosophy 1 (special): 55-88. 2022.
    Miranda Fricker argues of an injustice that is distinctly epistemic though it was born out of societal discrimination, identity power, and racial prejudice. More so, Fricker attempts to establish a theoretical space, where ethics, epistemology, and socio-politics can converge. An epistemology which concerns knowledge not for knowledge’s sake alone, but the kind of knowledge that can morally awaken a knowing subject and which can hopefully influence or bring forth a collective social and politica…Read more
  •  1302
    Enrique Dussel’s Philosophy of Liberation: Philosophical Reflections at the time of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
    Social Ethics Society Journal of Applied Philosophy 6 (Special Issue): 173-208. 2020.
    In this brief philosophical exposé, I will narrate the events as well as my personal and ecospiritual reflections pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic which began in Wuhan, China sometime in November 2019 and have spread sporadically across countries and continents wreaking havoc medically, politically, and individually, as it claimed more than three hundred thousand lives and had virally infected more than four million of the global population. This phenomenon had led us to confront inevitable e…Read more
  •  1007
    Dance Music and Creative Resilience within Prison Walls: Revisiting Cebu's Dancing Prisoners
    Social Ethics Society - Journal of Applied Philosophy 2 (5): 133-161. 2019.
    Using Foucault’s concept of governmentality vis-à-vis Appadurai’s “global ethnoscapes” as frames, I argue for a techno-cultural dimension which brought forth the phenomenon of the “dancing inmates,” an argument against the charge of Filipino colonial mimicry of a Hollywood popular entertainment. Albeit the inmates’ dance routines indeed depict Foucault’s “docile bodies” in his analysis of the modern prison, as pointed out by critics, I am inclined to show how the internet mediation through socia…Read more
  •  402
    When Society Meets the Individual: Marx contra Nietzsche, Antipodal Views on Society, Morality, and Religion
    LUMINA: An Interdisciplinary Research Journal of Holy Name University 22 (1): 11-24. 2011.
    An irony, however, is that although Nietzsche had read extensively important philosophers of his time, and in fact, had been known for his ad hominem criticisms on his predecessors, there is an astonishing silence on Marx in the Nietzsche literature, as if Marx is unheard-of in Nietzsche’s time despite the very close world they lived in as though neighbors, and also despite the growing influence of socialism in Nietzsche’s time. Nietzsche openly utters his strong disgust to the German National S…Read more
  •  267
    That “God is dead” is the first thing that would recall to mind the moment one invokes or mentions the name of Nietzsche, as if that’s the only thing people knew of him, that his name has become almost synonymous with atheism. The author defends Nietzsche by arguing that although he is against Christianity, Nietzsche is not totally against God, and a life-giving God is reconcilable into Nietzsche’s thought. Keywords: Nietzsche and Religion, Philosophy and Faith, Filipino Religiousity
  • Critical Discourses on Technology in the Era of the Anthropocene
    Social Ethics Society Journal of Applied Philosophy 9 (1): 84-113. 2023.
    This paper attempts to unravel and explore the stark contradiction between the quest for technological advancement and the struggle for human welfare and well-being. In the frame of Hegel’s master and slave dialectic, the author tries to present the notions of humanity and technology as thesis and antitheses by which the dawning synthesis of technological sensitivity to nature and an ecologically friendly human innovation and emancipation can be made possible. The paper draws heavily from…Read more