Pre-Colonial Philippines: Rizal’s Annotations of Morga Flashcards
is any complex society
characterized by urban development, social stratification, a form of government and symbolic systems of communication such as writing.
Civilization
a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
“his polemic against the cultural relativism of the Sixties”
Polemic
a long essay on a particular subject, especially one written as
a requirement for the Doctor of Philosophy degree. “Joe wrote his doctoral dissertation on Thucydides”
Dissertations
divide into sections or categories. “he had the ability to
compartmentalize his life”
Compartmentalized
José Rizal heard from his uncle, __________, about an ancient history of the Philippines written by a Spaniard named ___________.
José Alberto, Antonio de Morga
The knowledge of this book came from the English Governor of Hong Kong.
Sir John Browning
- acquainted himself with the British Museum where he found one of the few remaining copies of that work.
- republished with annotations that showed the Philippines was an advanced civilization prior to the Spanish conquest.
London
an early biographer of Rizal, translated into English.
Austin Craig
he came upon the _________________ (Events in the Philippine Islands)
Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas
Who is the author of Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas?
Dr. Antonio de Morga
When and where was the Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas published?
published his work in 1609 in Mexico
the _______ earned for itself the reputation of being one of the best dissertations on the pre-Spanish history of the Philippines with the special advantage that its author - in contrast to most authors of historical and ethnographic works of the time - was not a man of the Church, not a priest, but rather a Spanish civil servant.
“Morga”
The scholar Blumentritt was not altogether happy with the historical manner of presentation of Rizal. Rizal was much too impulsive, too committed to portray the past, as he himself said _____________
“cold-bloodedly and as an impartial judge.”
Rizal wanted to point out, above all, three things with the publication:
firstly, that the Filipinos possessed an independent culture before the arrival of the Spaniards;
secondly, that the Filipinos were decimated, demoralized, exploited and ruined by the Spanish civilization; and
thirdly, the condition achieved, the importation of Spanish civilization did not necessarily, and certainly not in all spheres of interest, bring to the Philippines an improvement or a higher niveau.
Did not stop Blumentritt from writing the foreword to the “Morga” which the present most prominent Philippine biographer of Rizal, __________________, describes as “excellent” and who, moreover, holds the view that it was Blumentritt who selected the “Morga” for Rizal to republish.
Leon Ma. Guerrero
