Filocracia: An Online Journal of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies is a peer-reviewed and independent online journal of philosophy and interdisciplinary studies published twice a year (May and November) and is based in Naga City, in the Bicol Region, South of the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It is envisioned to be another locus where scholars, writers, academics, and researchers, can publish their papers for Internet dissemination. It aims to serve the interests of knowledge and philosophy through the democratization of channels to academic and independent researches that have immense social and philosophical relevance.

Specifically, Filocracia strives to be a welcome venue for a fruitful dialogue between philosophy and other human sciences such as, but not limited to, History, Literature, Humanities, Sociology and Anthropology.

Filocracia is a neologism transliterated from Philokratia [philos/philia (love) + kratia (rule)/kratos  (power)]  that refers to that rule and power possible when love is made at the center of all human activity. Alluding to the “love of wisdom” which we find in the philosophic life, filocracia rests on that certain “wisdom of love” that can radically challenge the dehumanization and injustice occasioned by the various totalizing technologies affecting modern human life.

Editor

Michael Roland F. Hernandez, Ateneo de Naga University

Associate Editors

Fleurdeliz Altez-Albela, University of Santo Tomas

Jeffrey L. Bartilet, Polytechnic University of Philippines

Mark Joseph T. Calano, Panpacific University

Jayson C. Jimenez, Polytechnic University of the Philippines

Federico Jose T. Lagdameo, Ateneo de Naga University

Virgilio A. Rivas, Polytechnic University of Philippines

Bikol Studies Editor

Leo Paolo I. Imperial, Ateneo de Naga University

Editorial Collaborator

Rhoderick John S. Abellanosa, Sacred Heart School - Ateneo de Cebu

Editorial Assistant

Beaujorne Sirad A. Ramirez, National University - Philippines

Maxwell L. Felicilda, University of Lasalette

Manuel Dy, Jr., Ateneo de Manila University

Danilo Madrid Gerona, Ateneo de Naga University

J. Ranilo Hermida, Ateneo de Manila University

Robert A. Montaña, University of Santo Tomas-Manila

Agustin Martin Rodriguez, Ateneo de Manila University