A critical reflection on my reading and re-reading of Emerita Quito's thoughts on the underdevelopment and hope for the development of Filipino philosophy
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department/Unit
Filipino, Departamento ng
Document Type
Article
Source Title
Philosophia (Philippines)
Volume
21
Issue
2
First Page
169
Last Page
186
Publication Date
6-1-2020
Abstract
Quito published her book The State of Philosophy in the Philippines in 1983. When the book was already out for fifteen years, I undertook a re-reading of its identified four clusters of reasons for the underdevelopment of Filipino philosophy, and hope for development in 1999, through an article “Re-Reading Emerita Quito's Thoughts Concerning the Underdevelopment of Filipino Philosophy.” Thirty-six years after the publication of Quito's book, and twenty years after the publication of my re-reading, this paper looks back again on Quito's four clusters of reasons and hope, as well as on my re-reading of such reasons and hope, with the intention of sharpening our collective diagnosis on what continue to cause the underdevelopment of Filipino philosophy, as well as imagining more realistic pathways towards its more robust development. This paper, therefore, has two substantive sections: the first is an exposition of Quito's four clusters of causes and hope, accompanied by my commentaries on such four causes and hope; and the second is my present critical reflection on Quito's thirty-four-year-old diagnosis and hope, as well as on my twenty-year-old commentary. © 2020 Philippine National Philosophical Research Society. All rights reserved.
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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)
10.46992/PIJP.21.2.A.1
Recommended Citation
Demeterio, F. A. (2020). A critical reflection on my reading and re-reading of Emerita Quito's thoughts on the underdevelopment and hope for the development of Filipino philosophy. Philosophia (Philippines), 21 (2), 169-186. https://doi.org/10.46992/PIJP.21.2.A.1
Disciplines
Philosophy
Keywords
Philosophy, Philippine
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