DR. JOSE P. RIZAL

By Joffre Balce

Would like to examine Jose Rizal as an intellectual more closely.

He was not so much a journalist or philosopher like Karl Marx but shared his  belief in the equality of people in rights . His social philosophy was more guided by Robert Owen and  Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, based on his co-op endeavours in Dapitan. Politically, he is unlike the nationalists like fellow Latinos Simon Bolivar and Jose Marti but adopts a position where Filipinos are equal in rights with Spaniards under a federation of states or a Commonwealth of nations.

As a literateur, Rizal put in Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo elements of Victor Hugo's reflections on social justice and the moral struggles of humanity in Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. Crisostomo Ibarra and  his persona of Simon even resembled Emily Brontë's Heathcliffe in Wuthering Heights.

As a visual artist and sculptor, he was a scientist in his approach, concerned with capturing the substance, form and  function of his subjects, drawing inspiration from plants, people and anatomy. 

Rizal was also a martial artist, confident in his skills in Arnis de Mano capable of taking on and even throwing challenges in duels, which no one took -- a master at the art of fighting without fighting. 

Source: FB/June 24, 2021

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