Was Rizal happy? / Alfeo G. Nudas.
Material type: TextQuezon City : Cardinal Bea Institute, [1993];copyright 1993Description: 280 pages : illustrations 23 cmContent type:- text
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- 9718561056
- DS 675.8.R5 .N884 1993
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Isagani R. Cruz Collection | Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center | DS 675.8.R5 .N884 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 3IRC0000001892 |
it has much to do with the rhythm of man's "pure desire to know." This book will take much time to explain this deep rhythm or pattern -- the "intellectual pattern" -- of man's pure desire to know. --From the preface
their opposite, the men of violence, though these laugh sporadically, and laugh at other people, are really an unhappy lot. Intelligence here has little to do with quotients
This book is the fruit of some complete, some incomplete, reflections on one phantasm:the happiness of the First Filipino, our first world-class scientist who was also a humanist, our premier national hero, truly "a man for others" who simply signed his name: Jose Rizal. Phantasm means an image or a datum which one wants to understand and know. The focus of this book is on one phantasm, namely, in question form: was Rizal happy? A guiding insight in this book, as in all my "G.E." (general education) courses at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, and as in life, is that only men of intelligence are happy
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