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Republic vs. Court of Appeals [SEPARATE OPINION, ROMERO, J.]

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS AND REPUBLIC REAL ESTATE CORPORATION, respondents. CULTURAL CENTER OF THE PHILIPPINES, intervenor.

G.R. No. 103882 and G.R. No. 105276 | 1998-11-25

SEPARATE OPINION

ROMERO, J.:

"Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image." So said Jean Paul Sarte, one of the greatest philosophical thinkers of our time. Matthew Arnold referred to it as the "pursuit of our total perfection" or the "study of perfection." The English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, placing premium on human subjectivity, declared, "Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane...