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Philosophy
Filipino Thinking
Question | Answer |
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suggestive of being holistic, intrinsic, and relational | LOOB |
unlike people in the West where thoughts/reasons and feelings/emotions are treated as separable (example: reasons as supposedly supreme and should be governing feelings), Pinoys, on the other hand, treat of thoughts/reasons and feelings as inseparable. | Holistic |
to know the truth about a Pinoy, one should get to his/her LOOB; what you see and hear in his/her 'outsides' may not necessarily be the same thing that he/she bears in his/her LOOB or KALOOBAN. | Intrinsic |
LOOB therefore can be considered as Pinoy true self. It is, however, distinct from the Western's concept of the self in the sense that Pinoys' satisfaction of his self/LOOB lies in his good relations with those of the others. | Relational |
Looking at life as a series of ups and downs. TIME is considered cyclic. | FILIPINO TIME |
faced with odds, uncertainties, Pinoy as expected will never backtrack from any. He/she is much of a RISK-TAKER. Ready to take chance despite the odds being high and the possibility of success being at its lowest. | BAHALA NA |
Filipino concept of "God" | Bathala |
rather than acting based on reason and free will, Pinoys act and decide on the basis of indebtedness. | UTANG NA LOOB |
helping others in times of need, derived from a Filipino word "bayan", which means nation, town or community. | BAYANIHAN |
"abundare", a thing to be shared, not kept for one's own personal satisfaction; abundance is measured sa dami ng natulungan, napartehan ng 'yaman'. | ABUNDANCE |
Holistic as an idea or philosophy is thinking of an object or parts of an object as interconnected and whole. | HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE |