Alwin Joseph J.

Ramos
4PHL2

The Filipino has its own Philosophy which depends on his being an "eastern man" with the impacts
of culture formed by the rich history and sustained by the significant Filipino dialects and
vernaculars, and by the instruction conferred to the Filipino Mind. Filipino Philosophy is the rich
mix of culture of the West and of the East. An announcement useful for creating and understanding
a philosophy that could connect the Western and the Eastern Mind.
In different countries, savants are viewed as savvy and learned sages. In China, for instance,
Confucius is generally respected. In the Western World, even the generally unlearned realize that
any semblance of Plato, Socrates and Aristotle are to be regarded and copied. However, in the
Philippines, to be known as a "savant" is a critical affront, a term of extraordinary scorn.
To the Filipinos, a "PILOSOPO" is a Smart Aleck- -
~someone whose mocking, wisecracking, or clever way is conveyed in a hostile, repulsive, or
presumptuous way.
~is an antagonistic term for an individual who supposes he is shrewd and who dependably has a
response for everything.
The examinations of researchers occupied with this talk have a typical conflict that the history of
philosophy, or all the more explicitly scholastic philosophy, is established in the convention that
has been left by its colonizers and its proceeding with introduction to outside speculations and
belief systems.
As a further outcome of Filipino philosophy as a talk, it is through the steady exercise of
philosophical talk that one is similar to building up the third classification, which is the
advancement of a desultory philosophy that starts from Filipino masterminds and locks in with the
convention of philosophy in general. This is the place we find methods of insight that are never
again carefully restricted to the national or social worries of their own life-world, yet rather, are
worried about the talk of philosophy when all is said in done. This is the place we discover the
vast majority of the persuasive and noteworthy thoughts that are brought over through the
convention of philosophy, where we discover works that are perused, not on account of their
national root, yet on account of their impact to philosophy by and large.

Source:
Pada, Roland Theuas DS., On Filipino Philosophy, The methodological Problems of Filipino
Philosophy, Research Center for Culture, Education and Social Issues, University of Santo Tomas,
Philippines