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    The document discusses different perspectives on human nature - whether humans are inherently evil, good, or neutral. It presents views of philosophers and theologians like Augustine, Aquinas, Marx, and the Second Vatican Council. Augustine believed original sin makes humans inherently depraved and selfish, while Aquinas saw humans as inherently ordered towards happiness. The Council said humans experience limitations but also boundless desires. The document asks what insights Catholic anthropology provides on what it means to be human.

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    The document discusses different perspectives on human nature - whether humans are inherently evil, good, or neutral. It presents views of philosophers and theologians like Augustine, Aquinas, Marx, and the Second Vatican Council. Augustine believed original sin makes humans inherently depraved and selfish, while Aquinas saw humans as inherently ordered towards happiness. The Council said humans experience limitations but also boundless desires. The document asks what insights Catholic anthropology provides on what it means to be human.

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    St.

    Irenaeus:
    The glory of God is man fully alive.
    1. How do you understand what it
    means to be “fully alive”?

    2. What helps humans to be fully alive?

    3. What hinders humans from being


    fully alive?

    4. What helps and hinders you in your


    quest to be fully alive?
    What helps and hinders them
    in being “fully alive?

    Stephen is from Kenilworth Byron is from Englewood


    Catholic Anthropology

    What does it mean to be human?

    What insights can our faith give


    us about what it means to be
    human?
    Human Nature
    Nasty
    Nice
    Or
    Neutral
    ?
    Representing “Nasty”:
    St. Augustine (354-386)
    • Because of original sin,
    humans are inherently
    evil, depraved, selfish,
    sinful.
    • Evidence? Even an
    “innocent” and “pure”
    infant shrieks and cries
    and kicks and screams
    to get what it wants,
    when it wants.
    Plato:
    Body and Soul Dualism
    Body Soul

    • A prison for the soul • The real ‘you’


    • Material • Non-material
    • Decomposes • Survives death
    • Impedes real • Can know true reality
    knowledge
    Was Plato Right?
    Near Death Experiences
    Representing “Nice”:
    St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)

    • Humans are inherently


    ordered to happiness.
    • To be happy means to be
    directed toward the good
    since good = happiness.
    • How did he explain evil? A
    misguided effort to
    happiness and goodness.
    Aristotle:
    Greek Philosopher (c. 384-322 BCE)
    Unity, not Dualism, of Body
    & Soul
    • Based on theory of
    hylomorphism (matter +
    form)
    • Form and function – the
    function or telos of the eye is to see, when it
    no longer sees, it ceases being an eye except
    in name alone
    • Soul – the form (life
    source/function) of all living
    organisms (there is a
    hierarchy of souls, e.g.,
    nutritive, sentient, rational)
    PLATO Body/Soul separation

    ARISTOTLE
    Body/Soul distinction
    Dakota Mayer

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    and what
    elements would
    Augustine use to
    support his
    anthropology and
    what would
    Aquinas use to
    support his?
    Humans as Neutral…
    Tabula rasa…
    Humans are born neither inherently bad nor inherently good. We are the
    products of dynamics outside ourselves
    Representing “Neutral”:
    Karl Marx, Emil Durkheim, John Dewey

    • Humans are inherently


    neither good nor bad.
    They are a “tabula rasa,”
    a clean slate upon which
    others leave their mark.

    • Different “schools” of
    “determinism”:
    economic, social,
    biological…
    John Locke
    • “We are like chameleons
    , we take our hue and the
    color of our moral chara
    cter, from those who are
    around us.”
    Vatican Council II:
    “Gaudium et Spes”

    For in man himself many elements wrestle with one another.


    Thus, on the one hand, as a creature he experiences his
    limitations in a multitude of ways; on the other he feels
    himself to be boundless in his desires and summoned to a
    higher life.

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