Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show how Florentino H. Hornedo’s intellectual life is a consistent articulation of a philosophy of man and human existence bolstered by interdisciplinarity. The approach of this study will be hermeneutic, as it will present a reading of the book The Power to Be: A Phenomenology of Freedom and selected essays in the anthologies Pagpapakatao, Christian Education: Becoming Person-for-Others and Pagmamahal at Pagmumura and Other Essays. These texts are read in the context of his story, which shall eventually give what he precisely means by phenomenology, thereby justifying the use of what he calls “organic thinking” as a method in doing philosophy of the human person.