[REFLECTION] The Jesuit in slippers: Roque Ferriols at 100

‘For Roque Ferriols, Filipinization meant more than wearing a national costume or knowing that sipa is the national sport’

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Despite studying theology and obtaining his doctorate in the US, Ferriols developed a fraught relationship with the American missionaries of the Society of Jesus. By 1969 to 1970, he unsurprisingly inaugurated a praxis which continues to be controversial — thinking and teaching philosophy in Filipino.

In this essay, Ferriols answered seven questions. The first two continue to be asked: “Are you trying to develop a Filipino philosophy? Are you trying to help make Tagalog the national language?” Both of which got an emphatic ‘NO.’ The third question reveals the heady atmosphere of the Loyola Heights campus back then. To the question whether teaching philosophy in Tagalog was the wave of the future, Ferriols quipped: “This question is usually asked by those who are steeped in whatever products of American mass media reach our shores.” The next statement can be triggering: “Many of the askers are in the process of giving up the religion of their fathers and converting to the religion of being “with it” or “in” or “on.

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