Foreword

Abstract

Man’s search for meaning is a paradox. His consciousness of the world will always be inchoate, wanting, and rudimentary. It is always in the process of making itself fluid, fashioning, and evolving. As soon as a unity of thoughts is apparently reached, profundity is established, and ‘truth’ is discovered that man realizes obscurities and absurdities, bringing him back, as it were, to oblivion. However paradoxical, while man’s search for meaning rests firmly with the tentativeness of his understanding of reality, it also fuels his unending exploration of the unknown; perspectives considered, epistemic foundations questioned, and dialogues made possible. Such is when knowledge production commences and inquiry finds its solace. Such is also when Scientia finds its essence.

Resolute to the aims of contributing, no matter how minuscule, to the unending task of defining and redefining human consciousness that this issue of SCIENTIA, the International Journal of the College of Arts and Sciences of San Beda University on the Liberal Arts, has been made possible. Despite the still-pervading challenges of the pandemic, the anonymity of the ‘new normal’, and the practical demands of publications, the journal consolidates five (5) scholarly articles that cast their nets to the
vast ocean of attributing meanings to human experiences.