Philosophy Department-Mission/Vision

The Department of Philosophy commits itself to the intellectual and moral formation of learners by developing their cognitive skills in purposeful search for existential meaning. It directs learner’s cognitive development toward transformative concretization that is achieved through self-realization in relation to others and to the Divine.

Our department envisions learners and graduates who enabled for critical deliberation, reasoned inquiry, and creative self-integration in pursuit of intellectual and moral excellence as professionally competent and socially-responsible individuals.

To develop critical minds by delivering an integrated process of reasoned inquiry and creative thinking that will engage learners in constant pursuit of holistic knowledge and transformative intellectual skills.

To equip learners with the cognitive tool for structuring experience, thought content, and language into one coherent truth-statement

To enable students to construct reasonable inferences through careful deliberation of personal judgment and those of the others

To promote intellectual postures that critically accept, reject, or suspend claims of truth, and to whichever evaluation and appropriation of reasonable grounds precede proper judgment

To encourage persistence in reflecting on the nature of the human person that takes the SELF as the vantage point from which existential meaning is derived and integrated to

To inculcate in the minds of the students an understanding of the Ultimate Good to which all other ends in human activities – as rational, social, economic, cultural, spiritual beings – are directed, unified, and instrumental to the authentic moral life

To achieve a lived-synthesis of various philosophical discourses into one integrated and coherent existential value

Core Competencies	Benchmarks
Develop the habit of inquiry.	Infer logically and coherently from observation and analyses of situations in order to build and defend one’s point of view
Enhance reasoning abilities and capabilities.	Formulate a technique to present logical and coherent arguments
Become a self-directed life-long learner towards self-realization.	Understand the elements of human nature
Exhibit an attitude that manifests an authentic moral life.	Critical conformity with the norms of morality in real-life situations and choices
Demonstrate effective communicative thinking.	Know and develop the art of critical and analytical thinking as expressed in language