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The ministry of education is truly the most worthy, the most noble, the most meritorious, the most beneficial, the most useful, the most necessary, the most natural, the most reasonable, the most worthy of thanks, the most pleasing and the most glorious. - Memorial to Cardinal Tonti by St. Joseph Calasanz INTRODUCTION Today, there is a plethora of educational philosophies. Sometimes it is confusing which among these educational philosophies one should choose. However, the dark side of this overabundance is that some significant and founding educational philosophies are left in oblivion. One of these is the educational philosophy of St. Joseph Calasanz. [1] That with too much emphasis on his religious contributions, according to Joseph Domenech i Mira, his educational philosophy was overshadowed by others. This paper aims at highlighting the core educational philosophy of St. Joseph Calasanz. In this relation, the paper is divided into two segments: the history s...

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The Hermeneutics of Existence: Revisiting Heideggerian Ontological Hermeneutics ARCHIE R. MAGARAO Introduction Martin Heidegger What the contemporary hermeneutics consider as the “hermeneutic turn” is attributed to Martin Heidegger.  He initiated a so-called hermeneutics of existence in his notion of the Dasein (there-being). He also used the word “hermeneutics” in the context of his larger quest for a more “fundamental” ontology. [1] His conception of understanding is something that is not static but dynamic, having the power “to be”. Nevertheless, for Heidegger “understanding is the power to grasp one’s own possibilities for being, within the context of the lifeworld in which one exists.” [2] Understanding and the “World” What is the world? One might be wrong in conceiving the “world” ( Welt ) as we understood it now when Heidegger coined it. The “ world is not  the whole of all beings but the whole in which the human beings (Dasein) a...