Similarities and Differences Between the Methodologies of Renato Constantino and Reynaldo Ileto

Discuss the similarities and differences between the historical methodologies of Renato Constantino and Reynaldo Ileto. (It is not related to any religious beliefs.)

There are many similarities and differences methodologies use by Reynaldo Ileto and Renato Constantino. A similar method that these two authors use was using the common people or society will have a major affect in history. Renato Constantino has a belief that many historians focuses on the great people and colonizers of the past without relating it to the present(geelacerteza). Renato Constantino believe that the people especially the lower classes played and important role in making the history of the Philippines. While Reynaldo Ileto may originate the idea “a history from below” from Renato Constantino, because Ileto also believed that history should be focused on the common people not just by famous people(Palatino, Mong).

Even though these authors may have similar opinion on how common people played an important role in making history; there are also differences that these two have in methodology. Reynaldo Ileto labeled Renato Constantino and some other historians as an illustrado nationalists, because they focused on the important people that have played in the revolution such as Rizal and Bonifacio while making the people play a more passive role in their writings(Beup Jr., F.). Ileto believes that people that played an important role in history should not only be only focused, but that the common people should be also be emphasize in making the history of a nation.

Give our definition of history as worked out in the class then discuss its importance by giving significance in the present times.

The definition that the class has worked out was that Philippine prehistory is the unwritten history of the Philippines and its people that relies on artefacts and fossils dating from the formation of the archipelago to the first appearance of the original Filipino, until the emergence of a...