This essay is an English translation of Zeus A. Salazar’s “Pantayong Pananaw como discurso civilizacional,” published in Revista Filipina, Segunda Etapa, Spring 2015, vol. 2, no. 2. I have retained Salazar’s Filipino terminology because the distinctions among tayo, kami, kayo, and sila are fundamental to the argument. Apparent chronological anomalies are corrected. My own annotations…