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José Rizal loved his country the most over the romantic relationship with the girls he met. So he was trying to solve the problem he saw...
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Mi Último Adiós (My Last Farewell)
Farewell, my adored Land, region of the sun caressed, Pearl of the Orient Sea, our Eden lost, With gladness I give you my Life, sad and...
JOSE RIZAL : RE-DISCOVERING THE REVOLUTIONARY FILIPINO HERO IN THE AGE OF TERRORISM
On June 19, 2011, we are celebrating 150 years of Rizal’s achievement and its enduring significance in this new millennium. It seems...
On Eurocentrism And Laziness: The Thought of José Rizal
The idea of sociology in an Asian context was first suggested in the work of the Philippines’ national hero, the writer and agitator José...
Moral Forces, Philosophy of History, and War in José Rizal
This article attempts to reconstruct an aspect of José Rizal’s interpretation of history from some fragmentary remarks in the important...
The Philippines a Century Hence
I Following our usual custom of facing squarely the most difficult and delicate questions related to the Philippines, without weighing...
The Indolence of the Filipinos
PART ONE: Doctor Sanciano, in his Progreso de Filipinas, has taken up this question, agitated, as he calls it, and relying upon facts...
El Filibusterismo (The Reign of Greed)
The sequel to Noli Me Tangere with its unarguably utopian vision, el Filibusterismo offers a much bleaker picture of the last decades of...
Noli Me Tangere (The Social Cancer)
This novel has been a rich source of insights into the history and culture not only of 19th-century Philippines but, as importantly, of...
A Filipinas (A Philippines)
Warm and beautiful like a houri of yore, as gracious and as pure as the break of dawn when darling clouds take on a sapphire tone, ...
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