Roque ferriols biography definition

Filipino philosopher and Jesuit (1924–2021)

Rev. Fr. Roque J. Ferriols, S.J., full name Roque Angel Jamias Ferriols, (August 16, 1924 – August 15, 2021) was a Filipino Jesuit priest and philosopher known for pioneering the use of Tagalog in philosophizing.^[1][2][3][4]

Ferriols' efforts are intimately linked to the broader Filipinization movement of the late 1960s to 1970s, a period marked by a shift toward the indigenization of knowledge production.^[3] His body of work is also influential to the development of phenomenological thought in the Philippines, in particular, in its interest in philosophizing lived experience.^[2][5]

A classicist, having been brought up in the Græco-Roman tradition, Ferriols is also noted for his translations in Filipino from the original Greek, of selected texts from the Pre-Socratics to Aristotle, compiled in his Mga Sinaunang Griyego (The Ancient Greeks).