Anyone who knows Jose Rizal's (National hero of Philippines) philosophical thought?

Question

Here is my question :
Is the (philosophical) thought of Rizal inclined to what has been developed as the concept of philosophy in the History of Western thought until the modern period; or to the contemporary way of thinking in which the "I" is really what is central in the sense of thinking on philosophizing.

Answer 1

Rizal's philosophy was based mostly (if not solely) on the matters at hand in the midst of Spanish Colonization in the Philippines. His education overseas allowed him to process the concepts his vision of how to mobilize and unify his countrymen into "the contemporary individual thinking" as opposed to getting rounded about and pushed around like cattle, forced to work on land you are never to own.
His philosophies were borne out of education at home, his keen awareness of what was going on his motherland and the vast knowledge he picked up overseas.

Also, refer to a website I found on some of his philosophies (below).

Answer 2

José Rizal y Alonso

(born June 19, 1861, Calamba, Phil. — died Dec. 30, 1896, Manila) Filipino patriot, physician, and man of letters. Beginning in his youth, Rizal committed himself to the reform of Spanish rule in his home country. He lived in Europe (1882–92), where he published novels exposing the evils of Spanish rule and became the leader of the Propaganda movement, which produced reform-oriented articles, magazines, and poetry. He returned to the Philippines to found a nonviolent-reform society and was deported to Mindanao, where he spent four years. When the Katipunan nationalist secret society revolted in 1896, the Spanish arrested and executed Rizal, though he had no connection with the group and had taken no part in the insurrection. His martyrdom convinced Filipinos that there was no alternative to independence from Spain.