Man As He Co- Exist With

Other and His World

Reported By:

Cyprus Von Escobido

Rocky Fortea
Jasmin Espijon
May anne De Leon
Meaning of Human Condition
State of being human, Understanding of his state of being human at the same times an
understanding on the meaning of being human. Means the sense, purpose, And direction of
human Life.
- Babor(2007)

“Man and the world are inseparably related to each other in a form of mutual exchange”
-Babor, quoting Marcel.

Man as a Historical Being

Man is himself a historicity. The existence in the world is an existence of time. Man makes the
future through his past and present.
Man should take time to reflect on how he can help beautify his world and become more active
in making the world a greener pasture for everybody.

Man and his Environment

“An environment is only true to animals, Man has a world not an environment” -Babor

The Views of the Natural Scientists

“The world and man are related to each other in the sense of exchange, involvement, and
participation.” -Marcel as quoted by Babor
“Man does not live in the world, and instead dwells in the world.” -Heidegge

The Views of Existential Phenomenologist’s

A man cannot exist apart from the world, since he is basically a being-in-the-world.
Man acts as a master planner of the world since man is called to build and beautify the world.
His responsibility is to take care of the world and his environment.

Man as a Thinker
Your brain has storage vaults that contain bits of information recorded for years before. Yet an
average person uses less than ten percent of the brain’s capabilities.
A potentially towards understanding so that it is understanding that which is the resultant factor
of the activation of the mind or intellect.

Thinking can be derived in three ways:

1. It is a mental activity.
2. As a mental activity, man thinks when he is in control of his mind.
3. As a man thins when he is in control of his mind, he engages in an introspective or subjective
empirical activity.
Characteristics of Truth

 Truth is Localized in the intellect.

 Truth is immutable
 Truth is absolute
 Truth is eternal
Man lives in truth when he lives in wisdom. Man as thinking being should strive to seek and live
in truth. –Babor.

Man as the Worker & the meaning of Works

Works is one of the characteristics that distinguishes man from the rest of the creatures whose
activity fir sustaining their lives cannot be called work. Only man is capable of work, and only
man works, at the same time by work occupying his existence on earth. Thus, work bears a
particular mark of a person operating within a community of person. – Pope John Paul II

Man as a Sexual Being

Sexuality is the foundation of man’s personhood. It is the specific manifestation of man’s being
in the world. Because man is being in the world other, sexuality can be interpreted as the
fundamental factor of man’s inter subjectivity or man’s interpersonal relatedness. Thus, sexuality
presents the uniqueness of person in his emotions, feelings, action, attitudes, and thoughts,
among others. - Babor

Man as a Lover
Kinds of Love:
 Ludic Love - is a game-playing or uncommitted love. Lying is part of the game. A person
who pursues ludic love may have many conquests but remains uncommitted.

 Storage Love - is a slow developing, friendship-based loved. People with this type of
relationship like to participate in activities together. Often storage results in a long-term
relationship in which sex might not be very intense or passionate.

 Pragma Love - is a pragmatic, practical, mutually beneficial relationship. It may be

somewhat unromantic. A person who leans toward this type of relationship may look for
a partner at work or where the person is spending time. Sex is likely to be seen as a
technical matter needed for producing children, if they are desired.

 Mania Love - is an obsessive or possessive love, jealous and extreme. A person in love
this way is likely to do something crazy or silly, such as stalking. The movie Fatal
Attraction was about this type.
  Age gap - is a gentle, caring, giving type of love, brotherly love, not concerned with the
self. It is relatively rare. Mother Theresa showed this kind of love for impoverished
people.

 Eros - is romantic, passionate, love—what Tennov labeled limerence. In this type of

relationship, love is life's most important thing. Lee said a search for physical beauty or
an ideal type also typifies this type of love.

“Livings being need other like themselves, that sexual love unites spiritual and carnal love, that
there is no normal man outside a normal human relationship, and that man has duty to love”.
- Cruz quoting Teilhard de Chardin

Characteristic of Love:
 Love in an Encounter.
 Love is Silent.
 Love is Always seeks for unification.
 Love is Giving.
 Love is Growth.
 Love is Action.
 Love is Creative.
 Love is Mutual.
 Love is the Supreme Value.
 Love is Mysterious.
 Love is a Decision.

Man as Believer
“Religion or Faith is a result of fear for the unknown or fear of what is next to happen after
death” - Bertrand Russel.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Rom. 5:8

God is neither conditioned nor determined by man’s belief. –Babor

That even though you are faithful yet He remains faithful for He cannot disown Himself.
- Epistle to the Hebrews

Remember: Knowledge precedes Love

Man and his Relationship with God
Why is there religion? Why is man conscious of where he comes from and where he is going?
If God does not exist, it follows that everything is permitted. In reality, not everything is
permitted. It requires responsibility. Hence, there is God, for if there is no God, we certainly will
live in a world of utter confusion, chaos, and moral decadence.

“Expected to be aware of his believing. He doesn’t just believe, but he knows that he believes.
He knows that he has come to believe through his fellow believers. He recognizes too that what
he believes is said to be form God, whose existence he accepts and confesses in the very act of
believing.” – From the article of Father Francis E. Reilly, S.J

Doctrines on God’s Existence

Several Doctrines:
 Theism - the view that all limited or finite things are dependent in some way on one
supreme or ultimate reality of which one may also speak in personal terms. In Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam, this ultimate reality is often called God. This article explores
approaches to theism in Western theology and philosophy.

 Atheism - in general, the critique and denial of metaphysical beliefs in God or spiritual
beings. As such, it is usually distinguished from theism, which affirms the reality of the
divine and often seeks to demonstrate its existence. Atheism is also distinguished from
agnosticism, which leaves open the question whether there is a god or not, professing to
find the questions unanswered or unanswerable.

 Agnosticism - strictly speaking, the doctrine that humans cannot know of the existence of
anything beyond the phenomena of their experience. The term has come to be equated in
popular parlance with skepticism about religious questions in general.

 Pantheism - the doctrine that the universe conceived of as a whole is God and,
conversely, that there is no God but the combined substance, forces, and laws that are
manifested in the existing universe. The cognate doctrine of panentheism asserts that God
includes the universe as a part though.

 Monotheism - belief in the existence of one god, or in the oneness of God. As such, it is
distinguished from polytheism, the belief in the existence of many gods, and from
atheism, the belief that there is no god. Monotheism characterizes the traditions of
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and elements of the belief are discernible in numerous
other religions.

 Polytheism - the belief in many gods. Polytheism characterizes virtually all religions
other than Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which share a common tradition of
monotheism, the belief in one God.
  Deism - an unorthodox religious attitude that found expression among a group of English
writers beginning with Edward Herbert (later 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury) in the first
half of the 17th century and ending with Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, in the
middle of the 18th century.

 Rationalism - Rationalism has long been the rival of empiricism, the doctrine that all
knowledge comes from, and must be tested by, sense experience. As against this doctrine,
rationalism holds reason to be a faculty that can lay hold of truths beyond the reach of
sense perception, both in certainty and generality. In stressing the existence of a “natural
light,” rationalism has also been the rival of systems claiming esoteric knowledge,
whether from mystical experience, revelation, or intuition, and has been opposed to
various irrationalism’s that tend to stress the biological, the emotional or volitional, the
unconscious, or the existential at the expense of the rational.

 Pragmatism- school of philosophy, dominant in the United States in the first quarter of
the 20th century, based on the principle that the usefulness, workability, and practicality
of ideas, policies, and proposals are the criteria of their merit. It stresses the priority of
action over doctrine, of experience over fixed principles, and it holds that ideas borrow
their meanings from their consequences and their truths from their verification. Thus,
ideas are essentially instruments and plans of action.

 Naturalism - . Naturalism differed from realism in its assumption of scientific

determinism, which led naturalistic authors to emphasize man’s accidental, physiological
nature rather than his moral or rational qualities.

 Liberalism - political doctrine that takes protecting and enhancing the freedom of the
individual to be the central problem of politics. Liberals typically believe that
government is necessary to protect individuals from being harmed by others, but they
also recognize that government itself can pose a threat to liberty.

 Modernism - in the arts, a radical break with the past and the concurrent search for new
forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation in the arts from the
late 19th to the mid-20th century, particularly in the years following World War I.

The Meaning of God

God is the Supreme Being on whom everything depends;
God is a self-existing Being, and therefore, an Uncaused Being ( that is nobody created Him);
God is a Necessary Being Who cannot exist ( for He is a self-existent Being);
God is the most Perfect Being
God is the Ultimate Cause of all beings ( Everything originated from God).