On February 24, 2025, Prof. Lino Baron, PhD, former Faculty Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Letters, delivered the 57th St. Thomas More Lecture at the St. Martin De Porres Building Auditorium. The lecture is part of the celebrations for the 60th founding anniversary of the Faculty of Arts and Letters.
At this event, the former faculty secretary and Department of Interdisciplinary Studies head looked back at the life and philosophy of St. Thomas More, the patron saint of AB.
He also launched his latest book “Celebrating More”, a compilation of lectures spanning from 1968 to 2019 delivered at this event. Baron wove these lectures together, bridging the gap between the statesman-saint, his ideas, and the contemporary Filipino intellectual in a university setting.
“[The book] is the documentation of the struggle to remain faithful to its mission-vision to sustain an incisive, insightful, and discursive community of scholars and intellectuals inspired by its patron, St. Thomas More,” Baron said.
For him, the book is the sole UST publication that honored its college patron saint. “The idea of getting this task in a single volume would be an intellectual legacy the college can leave behind for future AB students,” Baron said.
Revisit the lecture here: https://www.facebook.com/ustartlets1896/videos/1455697228725712
