On Lina Espina-Moore: A divine revelation at war (a moral philosophical analysis on Moore's novel The Honey, The Locusts using Saint Aquinas' Summa Theologicae)

• Main Author: Fajardo, Michael Leem
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1995
• Subjects: Woman authors; Moore; Lina Espina The Honey The Locusts; The Honey; The Locusts (Novel); Lina Espina > Criticism and interpretation; Philosophical literature; Thomas Aquinas; 1225?-1274 > Philosophy; Philosophical analysis
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/1307
• Institution: De La Salle University

This thesis is centered on the life, of struggling, thinking, and creating, of Lina Espina-Moore. As a writer's creative power emanates from the human mind, so are the words she creates are potent ideas from her philosophical mind. These words are conceived in one of her novels, The Honey, The Locusts. Here, Moore creatively relieves, in writing, her war experience during the Japanese regime. How she and other survived the gloom and glory days of war will be revealed in this paper.This paper presents a transcribed oral interview with Lina Espina-Moore, and an inter-disciplinary study on literature (The Honey, The Locusts) and philosophy (Summa Theologicae of St. Aquinas). A moral-philosophical approach is applied in the novel with great emphasis on the seven main virtues, of Thomistic philosophy, as reflected in the human lives at war.This project tries to capture Moore in her past milieu, and in her world of meaningful human experiences. In the light of St. Aquinas philosophy, this world of experiences is not simply her own. She shares in the mystical presence of a Divine Being. How this presence has affected, sustained and empowered her and other Filipinos at war be divinely-revealed in this paper.