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Thomasian philosopher urges Filipinos to use colonial history as ‘springboard’ to modern identity
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News – The Varsitarian
THOMASIAN philosopher and Professor Emeritus Alfredo Co urged Filipinos to use the country’s colonial history as a “springboard” to a modern national identity.
His lecture, titled “Indigenous Filipino Philosophy: From Excavation to Void to Presencing,” examined the continuing search for a distinctly Filipino philosophy.
Co warned against “intellectual nostalgia” and urged scholars to embrace what he called a “hybrid modernity” instead of clinging to the country’s colonial past.
Co also challenged the new generation of Thomasian scholars to become “philosophical legislators” of the future.
Known to his students as the “Venerable Master,” Co is a leading Thomasian philosopher and sinologist.