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A Review Journal on Karunungan for Logic
Alfredo P. Co
Doing Philosophy in the Philippines: Fifty Years Ago and Fifty Years from Now
A Review Journal
The Article centers on the flourish of Philosophy in the Philippines, how it became popular, and how it is connected to an issue of our history and culture as Filipinos. The first part, which is also considered as the prologue of the article, tells us of the 1972 graduate students particularly in the University of Santo Tomas who decided at once to form a group bent on widening Philosophical knowledge, to learn more on the different Philosophies of other Universities, and to see Philosophy in the Philippines in an even broader and much more collaborative scale. This group was known as the Philosophy Circle of the Philippines which, until now, remains active and participative in Philosophical events. Other groups like the Philosophical Association of the Philippines and the Philippine Academy of Philosophical Research was formed with different objectives but in regard to Philosophy all the same. The article expressed how exciting it has been in the founding days of the Philosophy Circle of the Philippines and how the different sectors of scholars cooperated and spoke with collaboration and contradiction to the different opinions of the popular group. Thus, the group attained its primary objective: To diversify Philosophy in the Philippines, to free it from the walls of monotony in which we only learn a particular Philosophy in which we are home to and fail to see the other Philosophies developed. To make this clearer, this particular group wanted to unify Philosophy in the Philippines into one which will be agreeable to everyone.
This part of the article offers a good introduction one of which that introduces us to what we will read in the succeeding text. It also gave helpful info and a good insight to which it mentioned clearly of the Philosophy Circle of the