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RIZAL'S CHANGING
VIEWS OF SPANISH
RULE AND EL FILI
Evidente, Geolingo, Padilla, Traje and Villarosa
KEYPOINT # 1
VIEWS ON
COLONIAL
SOCIETY
• the corrupt Spanish colonial bureaucracy relentlessly exploited
MAIN the Filipinos but blamed the underdevelopment of the people on
HIGHLIGHT
KEYPOINT # 2
CRITIQUE OF
COLONIAL
HISTORY
FOUR REVOLVING CRITIQUES
THE
MEANING
OF
INDOLENCE
• Indolence means avoidance of activity or
exertion; laziness
MEANING OF INDOLENCE
• Rizal was very aware that in Spanish colonial
discourse, the backwardness of the Filipinos was
blamed on their indolence.
FREEDOM
OF
THOUGHT
AND
EMANCIPATI
ON
The Church was against
RIZAL'S enlightenment, the supremacy of
REALIZATION reason. The European
Enlightenment was good for
Filipinos, while the Church was
against it because it established
reason as authority, and not God
or the Church.
FACTOR'S THAT INFLUENCED RIZAL'S
THINKING
The main objective of this 2nd book is to criticize the Spanish government and form a sense
of Filipino identity.