{"title":"(Book Recommendation) Kenneth E. Bauzon’s Capitalism, the American Empire, and Neoliberal Globalization: Themes and Annotations from Selected Works of E. San Juan, Jr.","authors":"J. Cabusao","doi":"10.31944/20219401.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/20219401.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80927980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Faceoff","authors":"Noel Vera","doi":"10.31944/20209301.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/20209301.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83314052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Media and the Hermeneutics of Participation in the Digital Culture","authors":"Oscar Diamante","doi":"10.31944/2019922.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/2019922.07","url":null,"abstract":"The pervasive social media and the mobile technologies today, with their features of connectivity, interactivity, participatory, and user-productivity, have provided us new ways of relating with one another and with the world. The participatory culture that social media have helped form stirs up new forms of political participation, economic production, and sociality. However, this also brings about fresh anxieties, tension, and conflict of interests. Critics doubt the optimism and ask whether the goods that social media brings in fact just screen the real negative effects upon our individual character and the social order; thus, their call for a critical theory of the digital culture. In that light, this paper studies the structure of participation in and with social media as part of the hermeneutic phenomenon. Concerned with the status of human understanding, philosophical hermeneutics presents a concept of participation that is integral in the notion of understanding as conversation. The paper also highlights the contrasts between the manipulative tendency of the technical reason and the involved and deliberative character of human practice (praxis). Philosophical hermeneutics, then, as practical philosophy, combats the notion of understanding and participation that is dominated by instrumental and techOscar R. Diamante University of Santo Tomas","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78355991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Creation of a Japanese Writer for the Global Age: The Case of Haruki Murakami","authors":"Alona U. Guevarra","doi":"10.31944/2019922.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/2019922.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"41 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72608026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oriental Ecofeminism: Contrasting Spiritual and Social Ecofemininity in Mitra Phukan's The Collector's Wife and Manjula Padmanabhan's Escape","authors":"Punyashree Panda, P. Bhattacharya","doi":"10.31944/2019922.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/2019922.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90223400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ilang Tala Hinggil sa Narkotiko at Panganorin","authors":"Allan Popa","doi":"10.31944/2019922.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/2019922.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78622486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zeitgeist through the Eyes of Felipe P. De Leon (1912-1992): Musical Nationalism and the Cultural Environment of the 1930s","authors":"R. B. Lucas","doi":"10.31944/2019922.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/2019922.08","url":null,"abstract":"Zeitgeist in this article is a reconstruction of an era built from historical accounts that lead toward and around Felipe P. De Leon—reconstructing and interpreting his ideas regarding that which could be extrapolated through his musical works, writings, and campaign for cultural literacy. De Leon echoes “the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era” of the 1930s. A significant side of De Leon is his sense of history seen through his chronicles of musical events and his various views and perceptions of the Filipino audience’s reception. His writings, his musical expressions, and his interactions with fellow artists coagulate with a certain degree of interdisciplinarity to reflect the spirit of the era. Reconstructing the zeitgeist considers the tensions that exist between music histories (the practice of music such as performances) vis-à-vis music theories (the concept or constructs of tone engineering in terms of context). As articulated by Weber in “Beyond Zeitgeist: Recent Work in Music History” (1994) and seen through the eyes of De Leon, nationalists are concerned then at creating an inclusive culture, weaving a web of meaning that Renato B. Lucas University of Santo Tomas","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89825103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is The Nation Still Imagined?: Re-imagining the Filipino in the Age of Facebook in Joselito Delos Reyes’ iStatus Nation","authors":"M. Ho","doi":"10.31944/2019922.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/2019922.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82678116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thomistic Elements in Constructivism and Learner-Centered Teaching","authors":"John Vincent P. Ignacio","doi":"10.31944/2019922.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/2019922.06","url":null,"abstract":"The main purpose of this study is to present the philosophical underpinnings of Learner-Centered Teaching (LCT) using the philosophy of education of St. Thomas Aquinas and determine the possibility of how a philosophy of education can expand the limits of learner-centered pedagogies. LCT is a teaching pedagogy based on the theory of Constructivism. This paper is an attempt to give a philosophical standpoint to the practice of LCT so that LCT could expand its function in academic institutions from classroom scenarios to a more profound role in a learning environment. In a nutshell, this paper will discuss the nature and practice of LCT—the essential premises of this practice that yield specific teaching pedagogies. The focus of LCT will be on the Five Dimensions of LCT by Maryellen Weimer. For this attempt to be successful, a discussion of Constructivism logically comes first to present the main epistemological theories behind LCT that made it one of the most dominant and talked about teaching pedagogies in educational psychology. After Constructivism and LCT have been presented, this paper will proceed to a discussion of the philosophy of education of St. Thomas Aquinas focusing primarily on commentaries on the Summa Theologiae and his De Veritate. Using Aquinas’ theory, this paper will demonstrate the Thomistic elements of Constructivism in general and LCT in particular. Most criticisms John Vincent P. Ignacio University of Santo Tomas","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"49 15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76370201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}