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From the Editor
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Remmon E. Barbaza; School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University
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Humanities
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One of the more important pleasures that come with the work of an editor is that of being able to observe scholars of diverse interests at work—short of seeing them writing in white heat and in different directions. Here, in this present issue of the Loyola Schools Review (Humanities Edition), readers themselves can marvel at the scope of research interests pursued by the faculty and graduate students of the Loyola Schools.The diverse cultural backgrounds and research interests of the authors certainly helped make this issue as diverse as possible, what with a Canadian (who earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees at the Ateneo de Manila) reflecting on Thales and his effect on Aristotle; a Swiss visiting professor (who studied philosophy in London and Munich) deconstructing the controversial Zidane head-butt in the 2006 football World Cup using Adorno and Derrida; an American Jesuit theologian (who earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy in Louvain and has spent the better part of his life in the Philippines) clarifying the nature and role of doctrine in Christian faith; a Toronto-based Filipino working on her Ph.D. in political science and writing on Agamben and the politics of borders and the body; and current members of the Ateneo de Manila faculty writing on an Ifugao epic and contemporary Filipino poetry, on Abe Masao’s notion of double negation, and on Heidegger’s thinking of the essence of language.Perhaps Anton Luis Sevilla captures the richness and diversity, not only of human knowing and interest but also, or perhaps even more important, of reality itself when he speaks of “our attempts to grasp reality, in order to reveal the abundance of absolute nothingness, an abundance that we touch, that we take part in, but never own.”The present issue of the Loyola Schools Review (Humanities Edition)now includes abstracts of the essays, thus making it no longer necessary to introduce each of the essays in this foreword. Allow me to express my sincerest gratitude to the referees for their generosity and painstaking effort to review essays and offer helpful recommendations; to Ms. Karen Berthelsen Cardenas for being the efficient and supportive managing editor that she is; to Mr. Michael Ner E. Mariano who often went beyond his task as copyeditor to help me even make editorial changes and whose sharp eyes saved me from potentially serious errors and certain embarrassment; and finally to Ms. Ma. Victoria M. Corpuz whose professional skill in preparing the layout is coupled with cheerfulness and patience that she never seemed to lose even when I was way past the deadline. Indeed, there is this abundance that makes all of us grateful, “an abundance that we touch and partake in, but never own.”Remmon E. BarbazaQuezon City17 January 2007
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Loyola Schools, Ateneo de Manila University
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2008-05-22
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http://www.philjol.info/index.php/LSR/article/view/253
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Loyola Schools Review; Vol 6 (2007); vii-viii
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en
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Philippines
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