The Ingon and the Imperative: A Filipino Cosmology of Co-Narration

This paper articulates the Tayo Philosophy as a comprehensive cosmological framework to challenge the hegemony of Western epistemology. It posits that shared narrative (Ingon) constitutes the fundamental substrate of a conscious, relational reality (Kalibutan), and that the drive toward dynamic balance (Sakto) is a cosmological imperative governing all phenomena. We argue this framework dissolves the subject-object and fact-value dichotomies by recentering philosophy on the primacy of relational narration (Isig-ka-ingon). Through this lens, human ethics—mediated by the affective feedback of Hiya and the pursuit of Dangal (interior honor) and Dungog (exterior honor)—is revealed not as a social contract but as the human participation in a universal tendency toward regenerative harmony. This positions the Tayo Philosophy as a robust, non-dualistic alternative for understanding world-making in the Anthropocene.