The Impacts and Influences of Western Thoughts to: Filipino Thoughts, Filipino Psychology, and Filipino Philosophy DOCX

Title	The Impacts and Influences of Western Thoughts to: Filipino Thoughts, Filipino Psychology, and Filipino Philosophy
Author	Jethro Aranas
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The Impacts and Influences of Western Thoughts to Filipinos Western Thoughts has been a persistent and constant influence across the world in the last few centuries. Some great thinkers and philosophers assume that Westernization is the equivalent of modernization, a way of thought that not everyone agrees on. There are some cultures that despite the great influence of the west, they still managed to preserve their own and not persuaded. Although if this topic will only be focused on the Filipino Culture, there is no doubt in saying that we are indeed one of those who are following the footsteps of the west. There has been an ongoing debate on the make-up of Philippine culture, because this will generally determine whether Philippine Psychology is to be placed under the area of either Asian psychology or Western psychology. Obviously, Filipinos culture has been greatly influenced by the west: our education, music, show business, lifestyle, fashion and even on infrastructures. Filipino Thoughts Filipino historical experience gives birth to Filipino philosophy. The Filipinos towards the last decade of the nineteenth century began to absorb the Enlightenment ideas that came from the West. These ideas helped trigger the Philippine Revolution against many colonizers and molded leaders who are very known because of their deeds during the revolution. The early Filipino thinkers were the reformists like Jose Rizal, revolutionists like Andres Bonifacio and Emilio Jacinto and the Political Thinkers like Manuel Quezon and Jose Laurel, they were all Enlightenment thinkers. They believed in the human capability to solve human problems. Human potentialities can be realized to the full except that in certain instances, there are hindrances. The Age of Enlightenment stresses the dominance of reason; contractual agreements; inevitability of progress; deistic, humanistic, or mechanistic religious persuasions; reliance on human effort to solve human problems; human rights; education as an instrument to progress; and the like. It was also the period of scientific pursuits and progress and the period of economic theorizing. Filipino Psychology Filipino Psychology is anchored on Filipino thought and experience as understood from a Filipino perspective. The fact that we have been influenced by many nations and have been...