Epistomological Revolution
Granada, Danko E.
11046309
GREATWK EA2
Dr. Max Felicilda; Dr. Ernesto Villacorta; Dr. Francisco Guevara
Retracing Steps
Synthesis Paper for Great Works
To begin this essay, I first would like to discuss the problem I am to tackle with my synthesis of the three disciplines enlighteningly lectured to me during the course of GREATWK. Growing up as a child, ignorant was I of the great events that would and had occurred in the country of my birth, the Philippines. Little did I know of the problems faced by its citizens and its government, and every time I would see something in the television I did not comprehend of why such things occur, I would immediately ask my parents, my primary source of enlightenment at the given period and proximity, and they would tell me it is due to the bad people in society and I nod in conformity with the feeling of my inquiry satisfyingly answered. Only now that I have matured and opened my eyes to the great world that we are in have I seen and understood in an adequate level the tribulations in which our society was facing. The most unanticipated of which is that of the problems regarding and related to the Church.
The fact that Philippine society had problems with the Church was startling. As a child, never have I considered or even have came across the thought of human beings created in the image and likeness of God would have conflicts with the social body that edifies its members to love and adore the God of which humans were created in the image and likeness of. Up until college and toward the end of my high school days, I have always thought of the Church as the prime source of goodness. I have thought of the Church to be the institution that promotes the integrity and righteousness in each and every human being. The institution that taught me to love my neighbor even if that neighbor is my adversary. The institution that taught me how to forgive and ask for forgiveness. Given the overflowing of decency from the
11046309
GREATWK EA2
Dr. Max Felicilda; Dr. Ernesto Villacorta; Dr. Francisco Guevara
Retracing Steps
Synthesis Paper for Great Works
To begin this essay, I first would like to discuss the problem I am to tackle with my synthesis of the three disciplines enlighteningly lectured to me during the course of GREATWK. Growing up as a child, ignorant was I of the great events that would and had occurred in the country of my birth, the Philippines. Little did I know of the problems faced by its citizens and its government, and every time I would see something in the television I did not comprehend of why such things occur, I would immediately ask my parents, my primary source of enlightenment at the given period and proximity, and they would tell me it is due to the bad people in society and I nod in conformity with the feeling of my inquiry satisfyingly answered. Only now that I have matured and opened my eyes to the great world that we are in have I seen and understood in an adequate level the tribulations in which our society was facing. The most unanticipated of which is that of the problems regarding and related to the Church.
The fact that Philippine society had problems with the Church was startling. As a child, never have I considered or even have came across the thought of human beings created in the image and likeness of God would have conflicts with the social body that edifies its members to love and adore the God of which humans were created in the image and likeness of. Up until college and toward the end of my high school days, I have always thought of the Church as the prime source of goodness. I have thought of the Church to be the institution that promotes the integrity and righteousness in each and every human being. The institution that taught me to love my neighbor even if that neighbor is my adversary. The institution that taught me how to forgive and ask for forgiveness. Given the overflowing of decency from the