Reception and transmission process of the mind is reflected in communicationwhichdependsonanobject,mediumorsymbolsomethingmanisfamiliar withsothathecaninterpret,understandandcomprehendit.Languageisthe mostcommonformofhumansymbolmanmakesuseofincommunication. Freirepresentedtwowaysofcommunication.Thestudyaimedtointertwine communication,educationandsocietyasa systemandcriticizeit.Thestudy madeuseofhistoricalpedagogy.Epistemologicalmethodwasalsointertwined withcommunication.Hebelievedthatsystemofsocietyinfluencedsystemof educationasreflectedbythekindofcommunicationused.Hebelievedthat onlythroughpromotionofdialogueinthecommunicativeprocessthatgenuine knowledgecanbeattained.Today,however,modernsocietieshaverevolutionizedtheroleofeducationsectorespeci allyuniversitiestowardsthesocietyin terms of economics. Global and multinational companies tap researchers and inventors from universities for research and development which could boosttechnology, production, marketing and profit – in short economy. Thus, thestudy implied care for the use of symbols and language in education; freedomand liberation in education should be savored and maximized; education mustbe a catalyst for societal change and development. keywords: (...) Philosophy, mind, communication, process, language, human symbol, medium,liberation,education,society,pedagogy,epistemology,Philippines. (shrink)

The study began with an introduction to Philosophy of Man. This Philosophical-Christological approach started with sense of self-awareness on this seemingly vain technological modern world. In the history of philosophy, there were three objects of study evolving by themselves, world, man and God in orderly fashion and repeating in interval phases. Self-experience shows three objects: first, existential unity (past), second, experiential unity (present) and third, transcendental unity (future). Western Philosophy banked on Aristotle’s notion of man as rational animal that led (...) to Dualism turned into Monism and finally into Pluralism making it harder to capsulate man’s unity. Thus, the universal question “what is man?” including his end remains unanswered. The problem with Western-Aristotelian Thought was its dependence on rationality as ultimate and highest faculty of man. The Greeks believed in immortality of soul but contradicted reality that human mind has no power over death (mortality). Faith transcends mortal-natural state of man however not in proud and arrogant manner but in utter surrender and subjection (Paschal). Faith turns truth from objective to personal. God’s and man’s identity was both revealed. Man as God’s image becomes definite in the revelation about Christ, the Son of God - the Perfect Man Eph. 4.13. KEYWORDS: Philosophy, Christ, Perfect Man, Philosophical-Christological approach,Christian anthropology, Qualitative Research Design, Philippines. (shrink)

Philosophy seems to be an obsolete human interest today not because it is really obsolete but because its development comes into the full and thus becomes hidden into the scene in the name of development itself. The trend of this so-called modern time is technological and practical. This is so because philosophy in the history of mankind reaches its second level i.e. the level of praxis, the practical level. Even the trend in education as well as in the field of (...) industry is more on hands-on, manual, technological and practical level. Philosophy belongs to speculative science but is a perfect science which contains both the level of knowledge (philos) and the level of wisdom (Sophia). It also adheres to education as a lifelong process because it aims at learning new theories. Its ultimate aim is to turn thought into action, knowledge into wisdom, science into technology, theory into praxis, and faith into charity. And so its essence and spirit moves the current trend of modern education and industry in the process of development in search for the truth. KEYWORDS: Introduction to Philosophy, Foundation, Modern Education, Qualitative ResearchDesign, Philippines. (shrink)