Filipino Social

Thinkers
 Jose Rizal (Reformist)
• Their consciousness should be freed from
fanaticism, docility, inferiority, and hopelessness.
• He started La Liga Filipina with the job of
enlightening the minds of the people.
• Believed in Agnostic Deism – the view that God
created the universe with its law, never to interfere
with it again.
“ Intelligence is the solution to the
ills of the country
”
Jose Rizal (Reformist)
“ Human problems are irrational human
creations and can be solved through
rational solutions. If reason commits
mistakes, only reason can correct them ”
Jose Rizal (Reformist)
“ What is the use of independence
if the slaves of today will be the
tyrants of tomorrow ”
Jose Rizal (Reformist)
Andres Bonifacio (Revolutionist)
• Founded KKK
• His philosophy of revolution was published in the
revolutionary newspaper, “Kalayaan”
• Transformed the “Sandugo” as a kinship contract.
• According to him, a revolution of war is justified
when there is a breach of contract.
Emilio Jacinto (Revolutionist)
• He capitalized on the idea of a free reign of
reason, of the freedom to think and do, rather than
the freedom to will and do.
• Filipinos must get rid of slavery; must embrace
liberty again with a price, a bloody revolution.
 In colonial situations where both will and
“ thinking are suppressed, where intellectual
fanaticism is the rule, where one’s will is
conditioned to submit tyranny, it is the ”
intellectual liberty that comes primary

Emilio Jacinto (Revolutionist)

 Manuel L. Quezon (Political
Philosopher)
• Political pragmatism & political operation for an
eventual Philippine independence.
• Believed in Social Darwanism.
• Believed in the democratization of education for
all, national language, and justice.
• Partyless Democracy
Jose P. Laurel (Political Philosopher)
• Individual cannot forever remain in solitude.
• Social Differences.
“ Human rights cannot be guaranteed
unless the citizens first do their
obligations towards the state. ”
Jose P. Laurel (Political
Philosopher)
“ Good governance is founded on
righteousness and foreign relations must
be based on full reciprocal rights and
privileges between and among nations
”
Jose P. Laurel (Political
Philosopher)