The humanities and the Pilipino personhood pagkatao

• The topic for today is the humanities and the Filipino personhood or the pakatao
• Humanities


  In Latin it is called humanitas, in English it is called humanities, in Filipino it is called tao
• Filipino personhood or pakatao


  Refers to the cultural becoming of a human being and the process of becoming a human person or young person
• How a human being becomes a Filipino

  Through the process of pakatao
• The Filipino personhood or pakatao is more on the intellectual, emotional and moral aspects of the person, it is about spirituality
• Non-dualistic relation of terms


  Labas and loob
• During the pre-colonial period, Filipinos had their own cultural identity, worldview, values, belief systems, knowledge, skills and practices
• During the colonial period, the Filipino identity was destroyed by colonizers through the westernization of Filipino culture
• During the post-colonial period, Filipinos reclaimed and defined their own identity
• The westernization of Filipino culture caused a force of alienation