The True Decalogue by Apolinario Mabini presents his ten commandments which focuses on God and on the country. The first decalogue orders everyone to love and honor God and honor above all things. On the second decalogue, Mabini encourages us to always worship God and to always do good in accordance with our own conscience. The third one says that everyone must use their special gifts from God in order to act in accordance with what is true. The fourth decalogue states that we must always love our country after God. The fifth suggests that we must always consider the happiness of our country first before our own happiness. The sixth decalogue states the everyone must strive for the independence the country. The seventh decalogue expresses
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He served as the greatest mentor of the first president of the Republic of the Philippines who is non-other than Emilio Aguinaldo. With this, people called him as the “brains of the revolution”. During the time of his service to Emilio Aguinaldo, Mabini wrote the outline of the constitution of the Philippine republic together with one of his greatest masterpiece entitled, “The True Decalogue”. These two documents contain the programs relevant to the revolutionary government being established by the revolutionary group of Aguinaldo in order to let the people, in Mabini’s words to “understand the reason and your conscience constitute the only solid and true basis of your moral education, in the same way that honest work is the real basis for your material education.” He published it on June 24, 1898, twelve days after the declaration of the Philippine …show more content…
During the Philippine revolution, Apolinario Mabini used his all to fight for the independence of thy country. In fact, in April 1898, Mabini made a manifesto on the Spanish-American War. Here, he is warning the other Philippine revolutionary leaders that Spain would probably give the Philippines to the United States if it will lose the war. Through this, Apolinario Mabini encouraged all the revolutionary leaders to continue the fight for Philippine independence. Aside from this, when Mabini was finally chosen as the adviser of Emilio Aguinaldo, he encouraged the first president of the Philippine republic to establish a revolutionary government with assembly rather than a dictatorship. To add more, as the adviser of Aguinaldo, Mabini also played a big role in negotiating with the Americans and other foreign troops to make a ceasefire. Meanwhile, Apolinario Mabini had also an encounter with the other leaders of the revolution who wanted him out of power. These significant events in the life of Mabini inspired him to come up with “The True
He served as the greatest mentor of the first president of the Republic of the Philippines who is non-other than Emilio Aguinaldo. With this, people called him as the “brains of the revolution”. During the time of his service to Emilio Aguinaldo, Mabini wrote the outline of the constitution of the Philippine republic together with one of his greatest masterpiece entitled, “The True Decalogue”. These two documents contain the programs relevant to the revolutionary government being established by the revolutionary group of Aguinaldo in order to let the people, in Mabini’s words to “understand the reason and your conscience constitute the only solid and true basis of your moral education, in the same way that honest work is the real basis for your material education.” He published it on June 24, 1898, twelve days after the declaration of the Philippine …show more content…
During the Philippine revolution, Apolinario Mabini used his all to fight for the independence of thy country. In fact, in April 1898, Mabini made a manifesto on the Spanish-American War. Here, he is warning the other Philippine revolutionary leaders that Spain would probably give the Philippines to the United States if it will lose the war. Through this, Apolinario Mabini encouraged all the revolutionary leaders to continue the fight for Philippine independence. Aside from this, when Mabini was finally chosen as the adviser of Emilio Aguinaldo, he encouraged the first president of the Philippine republic to establish a revolutionary government with assembly rather than a dictatorship. To add more, as the adviser of Aguinaldo, Mabini also played a big role in negotiating with the Americans and other foreign troops to make a ceasefire. Meanwhile, Apolinario Mabini had also an encounter with the other leaders of the revolution who wanted him out of power. These significant events in the life of Mabini inspired him to come up with “The True