Cityscape: A Philosophical Reflection on Our Urban Living

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What sort of a life do we live in a place we call the city? Apart from the fact that a city often becomes a political, economic and cultural center, it introduces challenges that prove formidable not only to planners and governments, but also to the ordinary people who live in it. This course, which will include an actual tour of a section of our metropolis, invites the students to a philosophical reflection on our urban life, drawing from the wealth of writings on the city by thinkers from antiquity to the contemporary age.

Literature Appreciation
This introduces some current trends in literature and contemporary literary forms.  It describes, through sample texts, mainstream genres such as fiction and poetry, as well as non traditional fiction forms that form part of popular culture.

Music and Opera Appreciation
A historical survey of fourteen hundred years of Western classical music in the context of the evolution of Europe as a prime cultural center of the twenty-first century. The course has a session on instrumental music and on the opera. The sessions include lectures and multimedia presentations of sample music and opera.

The course should be of interest to the public in general, but may be particularly useful to people in local government, city planners, architects, environmentalists, travelers or ordinary urban dwellers who are concerned about their environment and conditions of living.

I.       An introduction to phenomenology and socio-political philosophy
II.      A tour of a select section of Metro Manila via public transportation
III.     A discussion of the tour using phenomenological as well as socio-
         political insights and theories.

is an Associate Professor and Chair of the  Department of Philosophy at the Ateneo de Manila University. He earned his doctorate degre in Philosophy from the same university.

 is an Associate Professor at the   Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de ManilaUniversity. He earned his doctorate degree in Philosophy from the Hochschule fϋr Philosophie-Mϋnchen.