filipino philosophy

• Filipino Philosophy- is the attitude, worldview, and notion of the natural citizens of the Philippines towards the day-to-day experiences in life, religion, communication, survival, interrelationship with people and intra-relationship with his sakop or to oneself
• •Kababaang loob– This philosophy shows how men are naturally good, humility or lowness of the inner self is with in each of everyone of us. It is perfectly inclined with the quote “the more you lower yourself, the more high you become”
• According to -Copernicus- “we have the right to be humble” and this cannot be contrasted because we are free and we have the choice to do what we want and be what we want to be. But in the present reality being humble is a choice and not all of us possesses this philosophy.
• Filipino time– A Filipino bad habit which is caused by human mentality. It is a bad attitude where Filipino use the time irresponsibly. In this Filipino bad habit, people are minutes or hours late to the specified time of arrival
• The main reason of this Filipino philosophy is relying to the concept of “bahala na”. The word “bahala” came from the root word “bathala” which means the supreme being and the “bahala na” actually means they rely their irresponsibility to the supreme being.
• Utang na loob– debt of gratitude or borrowed inner self. This is a good philosophy where people return their deep debt in an other manner in order to say thank you and show return of gratitude.
• In Filipino philosophy, -bigay kaya- is an application where parents or guardian will demand money to the man who will marry their daughter, in order for them to receive the return value of effort for raising their daughter. There are two main concept for bigay kaya:
• Bayanihan- derived from a Filipino word “bayan”, which means nation, town or community. The term bayanihan itself literally means “being in a bayan”, which refers to the spirit of communal unity, work and cooperation to achieve a particular goal.