Roque Ferriols

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.

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. 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.

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)''.''

In 2016, he published the first volume of his memoirs ''Sulyap sa Aking Pinanggalingan'' (Glimpses Into My Beginnings) detailing his early life and his experience of the Second World War. Provided by Wikipedia