Salvador Araneta as Examined and Re-examined

Abstract

Salvador Araneta had a multi-faceted career as a lawyer, constitutionalist government official, civic leader, public intellectual, and corporate leader. What is remarkable about his career is that he left a great number of his writings, spanning 60 years. From his student years at the Ateneo and the University of Santo Tomas, up to his last days, writing on Mosquito Press providing an alternative to the prevailing regime. Scholars and writers alike have written about him, in every part of his career. This review with some notes aims to provide an overview of the study of Araneta’s ideas as part of intellectual history and the history of the conceptualization of Philippine nationalism.