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Habermas And Argumentation In The Philippine Context, Maria Lovelyn Corpuz Paclibar
Habermas And Argumentation In The Philippine Context, Maria Lovelyn Corpuz Paclibar
Philosophy Department Faculty Publications
The article critically analyzes the perception on the incompatibility of the Filipino self-understanding as kapwa with Habermas's notion of argumentative discourse that champions autonomy and individuality. It argues that this apparent incompatibility is more due to the absence of an imagination of non-Western forms of rationalization processes and reflexivity, than to the commonly held claim of the incommensurability of lifeworlds. The key to this imagination is to locate potential rationalization processes from within modes of communication that reinforce kapwa solidarity. In the end, the article shows that kwentuhan, which is the mode of communication that is integrated with kapwa solidarity, …
Pitong Sulyap Sa Pilosopiya Ng Wika Ni Padre Ferriols, Wilhelm Patrick Joseph S. Strebel
Pitong Sulyap Sa Pilosopiya Ng Wika Ni Padre Ferriols, Wilhelm Patrick Joseph S. Strebel
Philosophy Department Faculty Publications
The Jesuit priest, Roque J. Ferriols is well known in Ateneo de Manila University as the first philosophy professor to teach philosophy in Filipino. Since 1969 until he retired in 2014, he taught all of his philosophy classes, both in the undergraduate and graduate levels, in Filipino. His example was followed by many Ateneo philosophy faculty. Since around the 1990s the number of philosophy classes taught in English and in Filipino had a 50/50 percentage ratio. This ratio continued on to the present time. As the tradition of teaching philosophy in Filipino nears its 50th anniversary in 2019, Ferriols continues …
Higher Than The Original Stands The Translation: Translating Heidegger Into Filipino, Remmon E. Barbaza
Higher Than The Original Stands The Translation: Translating Heidegger Into Filipino, Remmon E. Barbaza
Philosophy Department Faculty Publications
This paper is a reflection on the author’s experience of translating Martin Heidegger into Filipino. It first addresses the questions of principles underlying the act of translation, such as those of fidelity (to both source and target languages, original author and translator), as well as the role of the translator as an intermediary between the original author and the readers. Then it demonstrates examples of his experience of translating selected key terms and passages in Heidegger—such as sein, stellen, Ereignis, and their cognates—indicating the difficulties as well as the challenges that arise in the work of translation. A notable problem …