Vol. 16 No. 2 (2025): LUMEN VERITATIS: Jurnal Filsafat dan Teologi| OKTOBER 2025

This issue brings together six articles that explore the interrelation between rationality, ethics, and social life in diverse philosophical and cultural contexts. The contributions examine how the contemporary human condition—understood through the dual lens of ens rationale and ens politicon—is challenged by intellectual fragmentation, ethical decline, and the reconfiguration of values in the digital and globalized world.

The first paper, The Dialectics of Ens Politicon and Ens Rationale in the Face of Ethical–Rational Decadence, analyses the crisis of moral consciousness as a manifestation of distorted rationality and weakened public virtue. Paradigm and the Revolution of Science investigates the historical transformation of scientific thought and its implications for the normative foundations of knowledge. Freedom of Expression According to John Stuart Mill and Its Relevance for Press Freedom in Indonesia contextualizes Mill’s liberal philosophy within the dynamics of democratic discourse in Indonesia. The article A Critique of the Glorification of the Female Body in the Digital Content Sphere addresses the ethical and anthropological dimensions of commodification in digital culture. The Influence of Confucianism on the Work Ethos of Chinese Indonesians traces the enduring relevance of Confucian values in shaping moral discipline and social cohesion. Concluding the issue, The Inclusivity of Jesus’ Mission in the Miracle of the Feeding of the Multitude provides a theological reflection on the universality of compassion and justice.

Taken together, these studies contribute to a broader interdisciplinary conversation on how reason, ethics, and faith may inform the search for human flourishing within complex contemporary realities.