Includes bibliographical references.

The study of rizal course: reverence without understanding

The patriotic objectives of rizal law

An example of sacrifice

Rizal, his ideas: a reply to the challenges of our millennium

Rizal: a modern day hero

Jose rizal: his family and childhood "a name destined to be a legend"

The genesis

The name

The siblings

Rizal's childhood

The early religious formation

The early religious writings and experiences

The inspiration from the parable of the moth

Jose rizal: his education and career was he a doctor?

The arrival in manila and the intramuros legacy

The formative years at ateneo

The challenging years at ust

The degree

Jose rizal's romance: "the joys and pains"

The meeting place: la concordia college

Miss k

Leonor versus leonor?

The other women in the heart of rizal

The loves of rizal: josephine, the mistress; teodora and patria, the real loves

The mystery and legend of rizal's mistress

The two other loves: teodora and patria

Was rizal married?

Jose rizal: his travels abroad impressions and memories

Race jealousy

Travel impressions

The hero's journey to martyrdom

Noli me tangere or noli me legere

Noli me tangere: a glance

Noli me legere

Jose rizal's el fili: the subversive?

The filibustering

Rizal as a novelist

Simoun's advocacy

Rizal as a political philosoper: rizal would criticize today's society

Basic political reforms

Rizal's concept of government and politics

The key ingredients of politics in the noli me tangere

Rizal's definition of basic political terms

Rizal would criticize today's society

The liga and the katipunan "reform and revolution: a century after"

Rizal versus bonifacio

The liga

The katipunan

Jose rizal in dapitan: an educator for the masses

The admission test

Education for the masses

The curriculum

The teacher

The innovations and challenges to the present higher education in the philippines

Jose rizal: reformis or revolutionary?

Anarchism

Rizal's choice

Rizal's strategy for liberation

Education

Work

National community

Reforms

Assimilation

Revolution

Was rizal hip, was he cool? (the last farewell and some last letter)

How he wishes to buried

Last words to his brother paciano

Let the bravest come over

Last words to his parents

Petition for the pardon of rizal

The last farewell

Genuine or forged?: the retraction controversy

The versions of rizal's retraction

Palma's comparative analysis of the "original" viz-a-z-viz fr. balaguer's text and manila newspaper texts of the alleged retraction letter of jose rizal

Three ways of proving that rizal did not retract

Jose rizal's martyrdom, exile, and execution: the finale of life in quest of death

The first nail in rizal's coffin

The final road to martyrdom

The pleasant four years of exile in dapitan

The first part of the preliminary investigation

Jose rizal's trial

The dilemma of the defense

The manifesto

Double jeopardy

The execution

The making of the national hero: the controversy

Who made rizal our national hero?

The national hero debate: what makes a hero?

Why andres bonifacio is the national hero

Why emilio aguinaldo is a national hero

Why jose rizal is the national hero

The national hero: some conclusions on an inconclusive argument

Jose rizal: the american-made hero controversy

The myths surrounding jose rizal

Defenders and detractors

Rizal remains the chief filipino patriot

Jose rizal: the prime mover of asian nationalism

The state of the philippines: background on jose rizal's nationalism

Rizal's concept of filipino nationalism

Five determining factors in the early development of rizal's nationalism

Nationalist ideas of jose rizal

Four reasons for modern philippine nationalism

Jose rizal's faith put to test: is rizal's soul in heaven?

Is rizal's soul in heaven?

Adolf, rizal, and his half-brother mao zedong the rizal-hitler-zedong controversy

Facts about hitler

Facts about rizal

The connection?

Historical fiction?

Jose rizal's pending question: the controversial memoirs of pio valenzuela

The conversation

The pending question

Jose rizal: the feminist writer women characters in his novels noli and fili and the heroism of the women of malolos

Selected women characters of noli and fili

The heroism of the young women of malolos

Paciano rizal: the hero's hero

Paciano: a brother, and a son

Paciano's physical descriptions and some characteristics

Paciano: a man of sacrifice and struggle

Paciano: A revolutionary leader and a freedom fighter

The persecution

Last days

A shadow cast

The deification of jose rizal: the iglesia watawat ng lahi controversy

Historical background of the iwl

The anointed and the disciplines

Jose rizal: the god of the iwl?

Some inconclusive questions

The knights of rizal: another rizalist?

Postscript