Rizal Midterms
Rizal Midterms
Rizal Midterms
Rizal recalls the fable of the lamp. - With the necessary methodological,
This story is very important since it captures conceptual, and theoretical tools, Rizal
Rizal's symbolic representation of the light. pursued his personal researches about the
Philippine past. During his second sojourn
to Europe, he read various archival
LESSON 7 materials about the Philippines especially
at the British Museum. He read the
Exploration: Philippine Studies accounts of Spanish missionary reports,
Today, Rizal's vision of having a Philippine Studies travel books to the Philippines and
course has already been made a reality through Southeast Asia, and Chinese records from
the efforts of three leading universities in the 13th to 14th century.
country. Some of the notable works he produced in the
- In both the University of the Philippines- social sciences were his annotations of Sucesos de
Diliman (UP Diliman) and De La Salle Las Islas Filipinas by Antonio de Morga, The
University (DLSU), graduate degrees in Indolence of the Filipinos, and his planned
Master of Arts (MA) and Doctor of organization:
Philosophy (PhD), Philippine Studies and Association Internationale des Philippinestes
academic journals on Philippine and Asian
studies have already been established. aimed to organize different conferences
Ateneo de Manila University also has its about the Philippines with History as a central
own Philippine Studies Journal. theme.
Fedor Jagor - a naturalist who travelled to Through his conceptualization of the Association
Southeast Asia; and Internationale de Philippinestes and his planned
conference, Rizal divided Philippine history into
Rudolf Virchow - president of the Berlin Society for three periods, namely:
Anthropology, Ethnology, and Prehistory.
1. precolonial Philippines,
Aside from these individuals, Rizal was also able to 2. the loss of Philippine Autonomy from 1521
associate himself with academic organizations in to 1808, and finally
Germany such as the Geographical Society in 3. from 1808 to the Cavite Mutiny in 1872.
Berlin and the Anthropological Society founded by
Rudolf Virchow and Adolf Bastian in the 1880's. Historians today refer to this type of periodization
as the: Tripartite View of Philippine history.
During the formation of the revolutionary
movement under Andres Bonifacio, the
Katipuneros also incorporated the tripartite view
in the KKK's initiation process, giving it a more
revolutionary and localized character by calling:
1. the pre-colonial period as Liwanag,
2. the Spanish colonial period as Dilim, and
3. the period of liberation from Spain as
Muling Liwanag.