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Chevalier Dans L'ordre Des Palmes Academiques-France's Highest
Chevalier Dans L'ordre Des Palmes Academiques-France's Highest
17), Emerita Quito, one the Philippines’s greatest
philosophers, finally got her wish. The 88-year old former De La Salle University dean
and author of more than 20 books died of respiratory failure in Manila. She was a
trailblazing scholar, a prolific writer, and a sought-after lecturer. She was also my grand
aunt.
Once at the apex of Asian philosophy circles, Quito passed away in near-obscurity,
quietly whiling away her last years watching reruns of her favorite French game
show, Des Chiffres et Des Lettres. ”I have one prayer to God when I wake up every
morning: Take me. I’m ready,” she said when I last visited her in June 2016. Without a
hint of nostalgia, she said, “I don’t only feel old. I’m ancient—I feel ancient.”
Quito dedicated her life to the realm of ideas. Educated at the Universite de Fribourg in
Switzerland and the Sorbonne Universite in Paris she was a lifelong academic who
garnered the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques—France’s highest
academic decoration—in 1984, and was honored as the Philippines’s most outstanding
educator a year later. She mastered six languages (including Urdu) and was a superb
writer who chewed, challenged and interpreted Western philosophy for th
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The Theme bargain Absurdity delete Albert Camus
Emerita S. Quito
Discipline: Cultural Studies
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Dr. Emerita Quito
Dr. Emerita Quito
Conferred AY 1986-1987
Professional Profile:
A Life of Philosophy
From the Introduction to sections in the Festschrift
“A Life of Philosophy”
Edited by Dr. Estrellita V. Gruenberg and Dr. Marjorie Evasco
1965 – 1970
The 1960’s in the life of Emerita Quito were presaged by her post-graduate studies at the Université de Fribourg in Switzerland. From 1958 to 1965, she immersed herself in the works of Bergson, Husserl, Jaspers, Heidegger, Marcel, and Sartre among others. Her European studies gave her firm grounding on the philosophy of Plato, whose marked influence is seen in her dialogical method of scholarly inquiry. It also enabled her to integrate the ideas of the best of the existentialists into her way of seeing the world. Of them all, Jean Paul Sartre exerted the profoundest influence: “…much as I refuse to admit, I am greatly influenced by Sartre because existentialism enabled me to see things differently and with more depth.”
She returned to the Philippines after having earned, cum laude, a doctorate in Philosophy. In the mid-60’s, the Phi