On The Questions That Matter: What Do You Think?

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

What Do You Think?

by Mikee de Ocampo

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UnknownMarch 20, 2013 at 4:21 PM
The phrase "endlessly loving and compassionate towards others" helps us remember about Levinas and his philosophy of the I being responsible for the Other. The word "endlessly" encapsulates the infinite responsibility wherein the I is never finished in being responsible for the Other. And just as the title goes, I believe that if we were to be more compassionate towards others; if we were to be more responsible for them, then this can become a fulfillment for us and we will become a better and happier human being.

-Russell Virata
Ph102C
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About The Professor

Leovino Ma. Garcia, Ph. D. is a professor of the Department of Philosophy of Ateneo de Manila University. He finished his degree in humanities under the guidance and tutelage of Fr. Roque Ferriols, S.J., and eventually attained his doctorate degree in Philosophy in the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 1988 to 1994 as its first lay dean, and then became the dean once again, this time of the School of Humanities from 2001 to 2007. He is the second recipient of the Natividad Galang-Fajardo Lifetime Chair for the Humanities in 2011 and currently the President of the World Conference of Catholic Philosophers (COMIUCAP).

But most of all, he is a thinker, a life teacher, a lover of the arts, and, as he always claims to be, "the poor boy who knows the fields and rivers of the Cagayan valley," truly human in his own way.

These lectures delivered for the school year 2012-2013 are transcribed and summarized by Earl Allyson Valdez (AB Philosophy, Pre-Divinity Track 2010), once his student and now his teaching assistant.