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     Communication plays a vital role to people and the society. It is the act of exchanging thoughts, messages and other sort of information which is channeled and imparted by a sender to a receiver via some medium. One may consider first before relaying the message to friends, neighbors and family the impression it would give as the sender exchange thoughts, particularly in emotional situation or complicated issues. As communication is an act to exchange thoughts, the paper is interested to inquire into the role of euphemism of first considering the impact it would brought to the conversation. Euphemism is defined as a substitution of an expression that may offend or something unpleasant towards the receiver of such messages, thoughts and other sorts of information.      The paper is entitled, Filipino Interpersonal Relationship: Euphemism, would like to attempt to examine the idea that Pinoy’s fond of avoiding in giving direct criticism towards the Sakop...

    A ncient Origins of Halloween Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in).    The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an imp...

A national culture is the whole body of efforts made by a people in the sphere of thought to describe, justify, and praise the action through which that people has created itself and keeps itself in existence. – Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth.      If Luzon had breed thinkers such the like of Mercado, Quito, Timbreza, Abulad and other prominent authors and philosophers in their own right for the promotion of the so called Filipino Philosophy, Cebu has its own response to such call in the name of Amosa Velez, Ph.D whose response to the call has contributed under the following expression; “Mga Yangongo Sa Usa Ka Bata,” “Nayanaya: A Filipino Philosophy of Survival,” “Phenomenology of Nayanaya: A Filipino Philosophy of Survival Interpreted in the light of Silence in Zhuang Zi” and “Filipino Philosophy Why Not? Reflections on a Filipino Philosophy of Time”- which will be the focus of the paper and hoping to come a v...

                                             Time is not a thing, this nothing which is, and yet it remains constant is in its passing away without something temporal like the beings in time. — Martin Heidegger          The notion of human being throughout the history has come under iterations kind of thinking as definition formulated tends to resemble things, placing repugnant understanding to asunder its very essence of what it is like to be and its why of being human. Martin Heidegger (Sept. 26, 1889-1976) widely acknowledge to be one of the most original and important philosopher of 20 th century while remaining controversial. His thinking has contributed to such diverse field as Phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty), Existentialism (Ortega y Gasset, Sartre), Hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), Political theory ...

     Almost every individual desire to comprehend the world, provoking theories of various kinds to help make sense of it, because many aspects of the world defy easy explanation. However, some individual are likely to cease their effort at some point and to content themselves with whatever understanding they achieved, but not with Edmund Husserl.      The paper aims to come up a clear and striking epistemological assessment of Edmund Husserl's “phenomenological epoché” which lay genius integration of traditional ideas from Aristotle, Descartes and Hume with new ideas, to a more sophisticated of mind and consciousness derived from Brentano, which gives way to a new horizon of understanding man not merely as thinking subject but the acting, feeling, living individual condition of existence. The author solely concern's phenomenological epoché; suspension of all natural belief in the objects of experience where every method is taken by itself and investigated ...