Assessing the Developmental Potentials of Some Twelve Discourses of Filipino Philosophy

This paper continues the analysis presented in an earlier paper of the author entitled “Status and Directions for ‘Filipino Philosophy’ in Zialcita, Timbreza, Quito, Abulad, Mabaquiao, Gripaldo and Co,” in which sixteen discourses of Filipino philosophy were catalogued, namely: Filipino philosophy as 1) grassroots/folk philosophy; 2) lecture on scholasticism/Thomism; 3) lecture on other foreign systems; 4) critical philosophy as non- academic discourse; 5)logical analysis; 6) phenomenology/existentialism/hermeneutics; 7) critical philosophy as an academic method; 8) appropriation of foreign theories; 9) appropriation of folk philosophy; 10) philosophizing with the use of the Filipino language; 11) textual exposition of foreign systems; 12) revisionist writing; 13) interpretation of Filipino worldview; 14) research on Filipino values and ethics; 15) identification of the presuppositions and implications of the Filipino worldview; and 16) study on the Filipino philosophical luminaries. By eliminating the first four discourses due to their non-textual and non-academic nature, this paper focused on the remaining twelve discourses. By using a rubric that looked into the twelve discourses “Filipinoness,” cognitive levels, inherent emotional energies, impacts, and sustainabilities, this paper identified which among these discourses hold the greatest developmental potentials. This paper concludes by enjoining the Filipino philosophers and writers/scholars of philosophy to invest their limited resources, time, energy and other capitals to the discourses with the greatest developmental potentials.