Week 5 Philo 1

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PHILOSOPHY OF

THE HUMAN
PERSON
PREPARED BY: HERRAHGEN AGRABANTE
Key terms to remember:

Man – is general term commonly


used to refer to the entire human
race.
Human – refers to a man as
species – Homo Sapiens sapiens
or modern human being.
Person – refers to a human being
granted of recognition of certain rights,
protection, responsibilities, and dignity.
Human person refers to the totality of
an individual, possessing awareness,
self-determination and the capacity to
interact.
Human nature – refers to the
characteristics that distinguish human
from all other creature.
What is a human person?
What is a human person?
- Human person is someone
with an exact origin of
his/her classification.
- - from biblical perspective,
we came from Adam and
Eve.
- For science, we came from
an ape under the class:
- Mammalia.
Human person is typically with
a body which is tangible and
has three components
composed of SOUL, MIND, and
SPIRIT. Also he/she is entitled
and granted rights and
privileges by the state which
he/she legally belong.
TWO GENERAL FORMS ON HOW TO
DISTINGUISH A HUMAN PERSON
1. PHYSICAL SELF – something that can
be seen in a person’s physical
appearance. The “what” of a person
( such as gender, color, weight, etc.).
2. COGNITIVE SELF – cannot be
physically seen, the “who” of a
person (beliefs, desire, dreams, and
intention).
Embodied – materialized,
personify, epitomize,
“kumakatawan”
Embodied spirit –
inseparable union of body
and soul.
What is Embodied Spirit?
Embodied spirit is an animating core
living within each of us.
It is known to be the driving force
behind what we actually think, do and
say.
Spirit – this intangible element enables
us to exercise thought, possess
awareness, interiority, and the
capacity to reach out to the outside
world and other persons.
Embodiment – the
representation or expression
of something in a tangible or
visible form, enables us to do
and experience all the things
that make us human
persons.
EMBODIED SPIRIT
The embodiment of the spirit
particularly refers to the inseparable
union of human body and soul.
Inseparable which also means the body
and soul work together at all times.
Hence, we can safely say that
“embodied spirit” that the body is not
separate from the soul, just as the soul
is not separate from the body.
Essential characteristics of the human
species
1. Unspirited body – where a human person
is just his/her body and nothing more.
2. Disembodied spirit – where a human
person is essentially just his/her spirit.
3. Embodiedspirit – where human person
has both body and spirit in unity with
each other.
Qualities of human person with embodied spirit
1. Self-awareness – a person having clear perception of
one’s self. Including his/her thoughts, emotions,
identity, and actions.
2. Externality
– is when a human person is able to
connect and interact with another person, animal or
an inanimate object.
3. Self-determination
– capability of a person to make
choices and decisions based on his/her own
preferences. Human beings are free .
4. Dignity
– a human person’s inherit value and
importance.
Understanding human person as an embodied spirit
from different perspectives
A. Dualistic Point of View of Human Being
> According to Plato, the nature of the human person is
seen in the metaphysical dichotomy between body and
soul.
B. Union between Body and Soul
> Aristotle is the student of Plato. Aristotle asserts that
there is no division between the body and soul. The soul
gives life to the body, while the body gives the soul its
material entity.
POSSIBLE? NO IT’S IMPOSSIBLE!
Directions: Identify whether the
action shown in the picture is
possible or impossible.

1. 2. 3.
LIMITATIONS AND TRANSCENDENCE
The ability to surpass limits is called Transcendence, and
it is also one important trait that distinguishes the human
person from another being existence.
TRASCENDENCE
> Is a state of experience or
existence above and beyond the
normal or physical level. The term
transcendence derived from the
Latin words “trans” which means to
go beyond and “scandare” which
means to climb.
Transcendence opens the state of thinking and
feeling that there is something more in life than
just physical or material things.
There are some things that seem to be impossible
but people are able to transcends our own limits
through our physical and mental abilities to make
these things possible.
You can use your strengths to transform your
weaknesses and achieve our desires.
Limitations of Man
Having a body, we could
conclude that it limits man
from fulfilling his full
potentials. It is indeed based
on our experience. By
nature, man is limited.
a.Facticity– according to Jean-Paul Sartre, a
French philosopher, it refers to the things in
our lives that are already given ( gender,
color, race,s ocial status, genes, etc,).
> all the facts that we currently have are part
of our LIMITATION.
> there are times that people use our facticity
as an excuse for our difficulties an failures.
b. Spatial-Temporal Being – the fact that we
are born and that we exist in a paticular
place and time already sets limitations.
 Because of our body, we are limited by
space and time. At times, we care too
engrossed in our past or very anxious
about what will happen to us.
1.Level of temporality – we will not live
forever; limited stay in this world.
1.Level of our being spatial individuals –
we are limited by our bodies to be
present in two or more places at the
same time.
2.Level of understanding – we consider
our spatial-temporal situation as
imposing a limit on us it sets out to be
our preconditions of our understanding.
c. The body as intermediary – body
serves as an intermediary between
as and the physical world.
> It is our body that we can
experience the world as our world
and not the world of others.
RECAP
As an embodied spirit, In an embodied spirit,
the human person the body is not
Embodied spirit is the
demonstrate self- separated from the
driving force of what
awareness, externality, soul, just as the soul is
we think, do and say.
self-determination, and not separated from the
dignity. body.

Our capacity for


Transcendence is a
transcendence gives As a human beings we
state of existence
us the opportunity to have a unique power to
above and beyond the
work toward becoming change ourselves and
normal or physical
better version of things for the better.
level within ourselves.
ourselves.
Activity 2
TRANSCENDING MY LIMITATION!
Directions: As a human being, you have
experienced your own limitation in life.
Describe this limitations by using the
categories below and think of ways on
how to overcome such limitations.
Categories Describe your present What can your own to
status on that certain transcend from your own
condition limitations?

Ex. For me to continue the


Ex. Your Ex. I have a good good relationship I have with
relationship to relationship with my parents, I will open up to
them, ask for their guidance
your parents my parents. and continue respecting
them.

1. Answering my
modules
2. Family’s financial
status
3. Your physical
appearance
BASIC!

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