► Why do you think we need to study the Human Person

in all its complexities and characteristics in morality?

► Share a moral case where the action can either be
morally good or bad
► Some factors that affect much the morality of an
action: age; maturity; mental, psycho-emotional and
physical health etc.
► Married man justifying his sexual infidelity: “Palay na ang
lumalapit sa manok”
► Why do some call the DDS TABOGO: Tanga, Bobo at Gago?
► What makes man different from animal and plant?
► What do we mean when we say man is reasonable? What are
the things we do which prove man is rational?
 I. HUMAN REASON REVEALS
SOMETHING ABOUT WHO WE ARE
► A. HUMANS ARE EMBODIED-SPIRITS:
► 1.) HUMAN IS RATIONAL: HUMAN IS CAPABLE OF THINKING –
man has the ability to think, reflect, meditate, create, solve
problems, plan, dream, imagine, self-awareness, conscious; one
thing that separates us from plant & animal life is that we know
that we know.
► Being immoral/inhuman is doing anything that needlessly
destroys or diminishes our thinking ability. Being moral
implies that we use our thinking ability wisely & develop it.
► Who among you are smoking?
► Who among you are drinking alcohol?
► Do you see any moral problem by your
smoking and drinking?
PHYSICAL
HEALTH
► What causes psoriasis of the liver?
► There are many causes of cirrhosis including
chemicals (such as alcohol, fat, and certain
medications), viruses, toxic metals (such as iron and
copper that accumulate in the liver as a result of
genetic diseases), and autoimmune liver disease in
which the body's immune system attacks the liver.
Good Smoker’s
lungs lungs
► What are the top ten leading causes of death
in America & Philippines?
► Who drinks soft drinks or juice daily or
oftentimes?
► Who eats 1 order of rice plus another
extra rice daily?
DIABETES
Pat Sweitzer
was diagnosed
with Type 2
diabetes in her
late 40s. At 81,
she lost both
legs, uses a
pacemaker, 3x
a week dialysis
& is legally
blind. “I
wasn’t as
careful as I
could have
been. I never
thought of
what was going
to happen. I
don’t think
anyone does
when they’re
first
diagnosed.”
► COST OF DIABETES:
► Humalog KwikPen insulin for diabetes. ₱ 1,000
► The cost of one dialysis session ranges from P2,800 -
P4,000. The average price for dialysis is around P4,500 per
session without PhilHealth at two to three sessions a week.
►  PSN's Karen Querequincia said that the cheapest kidney
transplant would cost P250,000 if the patient has a
PhilHealth account.  
► We are now subsidizing the full cost of a kidney transplant
procedure up to P600,000,” said Dr. Eduardo Banzon,
PhilHealth president and chief executive officer, in a
statement.
PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH

Let us raise normal human beings:

CRYING IS NORMAL FOR A HUMAN
BEING WHETHER FEMALE OR MALE
AVOID BODY SHAMING OF FAT
AND SHORT PERSONS & other
things that contributes to
mental depression
► 2.) MAN HAS A BODY
► We express ourselves & experience reality through our
senses, emotions, desires, drives, feelings, likes & dislikes;
thought, freedom & love are part of mankind’s spiritual
nature. But humans are body-people, too. It is immoral not
to take care of the body. Why? Well, for one obvious thing,
you cannot think clearly, exercise your freedom or love if
you have not taken proper care of your body (physical;
mental; psychological & emotional).
► Being immoral/inhuman means doing anything that will destroy our
bodies either immediately or gradually. Being moral implies that we
take care & cherish with deepest respect our bodies.
► 3.) HUMAN IS FREE – man has the ability to choose, we can chose
freely; without freedom, there is no right or wrong; doing right or
choosing to do wrong implies that we are free enough to choose; unlike
animals who are totally bound by instinct, man has a certain amount of
freedom which enables him to change, to choose a response to a
particular situation & to direct his future.
► B.F. Skinner, a modern psychologist, believes that all human behavior is learned. He
thinks that we are conditioned to act the way we do by the environment. So, for him
man is not totally free. It is true that a lot of what we are is determined by heredity
(did not choose our family) & environment (did not choose our birthplace &
country).
► It is also true, however, that we have a certain degree of freedom to change
what we are, to improve what we are, to do new things.
► Being immoral/inhuman means doing anything I want even if it’s not the good
thing to do. Being moral implies that we use our freedom to do the good thing.
► IS HUMAN CAPABLE OF LOVING?
► A father has been jailed after he sexually abused his
daughters from the age of four and let his co-workers
gang-rape them for over two decades, it has now been
revealed.
► The 80-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons,
pleaded guilty to 87 charges during an appearance last week at
the Townsville District Court, Daily Mail reports. However, the
man blamed the decades-long abuse on a "vision" he had of one
of his daughters becoming a prostitute and a drug addict.
According to him, he subjected his daughter to vaginal, anal,
and oral rape at knifepoint in order to "shock" the girl out of
following the path he saw in the vision.
► The father took groups of men to his workplace and let them
gang-rape his daughter, it was revealed in court.
► 3.) HUMAN IS CAPABLE OF LOVING
► One of the greatest proofs of man’s freedom is that he can
willingly desire the good of another person or not; loving is
using our freedom in such a way to do good for others. To
do the right thing is to do the loving thing.
► Being immoral/inhuman means doing anything that will
hurt others. Being moral implies that we use our freedom
in loving others.
► B. WE ARE RELATED TO OTHERS IN COMMUNITY
► Are Filipinos today still influenced by the
colonizations before of the Spaniards and the
Americans? In what way?
► Are the ills in our society today the product of the
past generations like the patronage politics, vote
buying?
► 1.) WE ARE HISTORICAL BEINGS – By being a member of
the human community we have a history, we have roots.
We inherit all the benefits and mistakes as well of
those who have gone before us. Likewise, we are in the
process of history. Some will come after us. We have
obligations to the future generations.
► Does the family of our parents & our present family
affect us?
► It is immoral/inhuman to destroy heedlessly that which has
been given to us. The moral, human thing to do is to recognize
that what we do today has consequences for tomorrow.
 HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
IF WE DO NOT LEARN
► NEVER AGAIN TO MARCOSES!
► The young victims of Martial Law:
► They were young and idealistic individuals who only
wanted to see their country free from the
dictatorship. They were killed for speaking the truth
and for wanting a change. They are the young victims
of Martial Law.
Liliosa Hilao, known as Lili to friends was a consistent honor
student at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. She was the
editor-in-chief of the campus publication, which openly criticized
the Marcos administration. She used the power of the pen to
express her dismay to the regime.
Lili was the first female to die in detention during Martial Law.
Soldiers from the Constabulary Anti-Narcotics Unit beat up Lili
and threw her to Camp Crame. The Constabulary said Liliosa
committed suicide by drinking muriatic acid, but her body
showed otherwise. There were clear signs of torture: cigarette
burns in her lips, injection marks in her arms, and bruises all over
her body.
 Archimedes Trajano, then a 21-year-old student of the Mapua Institute of
Technology, stood up in an open forum in 1977 at the Pamantasan ng
Lungsod
ng Maynila and asked Imee Marcos, the eldest daughter of the late dictator
Ferdinand Marcos on her capability to lead the youth, as she was appointed to head
Kabataang Barangay.
Trajano told Imee that she wouldn’t have been the head of KB hadn’t she been
the president’s daughter. He also questioned her father’s role in many human
rights violations. On Sept. 2, 1977, his body, covered in blood, was found on the
streets of Manila. Trajano’s parents were told their son got involved in a dorm
brawl.
Witnesses, however, said Trajano was last seen forcibly removed from the
university forum by Imee’s security detail. He was believed to have suffered
TOP SOIL FROM DENUDED
MOUNTAINS FLOWING TO THE RIVER
► When was your last deep & personal conversation
with someone? Parents, siblings, relatives or friends?
► Are you affected if nobody reacted or commented to
your Fb post?
► How often do you have long & deep conversations
with your Fb friends? In a month? In a year?
► Problem with cellphone in socializing
► Show a video clip of Simon Sinek
► Outdoor games – not just simply games but an avenue
to learn HOW to socialize
► 2.) WE ARE SOCIAL BEINGS; WE ARE BEINGS WITH & FOR
OTHERS
► More than any species on this planet, humans need one another.
We were born, survived infancy & childhood through the care &
concern of other people: parents, brothers & sisters, teachers,
friends etc. We thrive in adulthood by relating to others in the
work world, by having families, by nourishing friendships. We
need other people just as other people need us.
► To be anti-social (there are situations when being apathetic
-“walang paki” is immoral); is to be immoral, inhuman. To be
moral is to be with & for others.
► II. CHRISTIAN FAITH
REVEALS SOMETHING
ABOUT WHO WE ARE
which otherwise reason
alone human won’t be
able to realize
 DISCUSSION IN PREPARATION FOR HUMAN DIGNITY?
► Why a human being should not live under the bridge?
► Why a human being should not eat from the leftover foods
inside the garbage plastic bags (pagpag) ?
► Why should we give opportunity for children to study?
► Why should we not allow children to be used in war?
► Why is poverty a violation of human dignity?
► Why should drug addicts not be killed?
► Why should rapists not be killed?
► RIGHT TO LIFE:
► Everyone has the right to education.
► Education should be directed to full development of the human person
► Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and
favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
► Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
► Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of
working hours, and periodic holidays with pay.
► Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well
being of himself and of his family including food, clothing, housing and medical
care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of
unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood
in circumstances beyond his control.
► RIGHT TO LIBERTY:
► Everyone has the freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this freedom
includes the right to change his religion or belief and freedom either alone or
with his community and in public or private to manifest his religion or belief in
teaching, practice, worship and observance.
► Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the
borders of each state.
► Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return
to his own country.
► No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slaver and servitude shall be
prohibited in all its forms.
► No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
► No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family,
home or correspondence nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation.
► RIGHT TO SECURITY:
► No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,
degrading inhuman treatment or punishment.
► All are equal before the law and are entitled
without any discrimination to equal protection of
the law.
► Do you have the right to live in a decent house?
To eat clean food? Speak freely?
► Why do you have that right? Why human beings
have rights (karapatan pang tao)?
► Who gave you all those rights?
► Because as Human beings have DIGNITY!
► All human beings are born free and equal in
dignity and rights.
► Every person has the right to life, liberty, and
security.
► II. DIVINE REVELATION UNVEILS OUR TRUE IDENTITY (a gift
of Christianity to Humanity)
1.) MAN HAS DIGNITY BECAUSE WE ARE GOD’S CHILDREN
and HIS FRIENDS
► The Christian believes that the most profound reality about the human person
is that we are God’s children, that He cares for us, that our final destiny is
union with him. Is 49:15-16 “Can a mother forget her infant, be without
tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never
forget you. See, upon the palms of my hands I have written your name…”
► What a profound dignity we have as humans.1Jn 3:1 See what love has the
Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called the children of God!
Jn 15:15 “I call you friends”, Jesus said.
► Does every person has dignity? Can we lose our dignity?
► Where does our dignity come from?
► Our human dignity does not depend on human achievement,
but it is a gift of divine love. This gives each human person
unique worth and inalienable rights. As a result, no person
should ever be treated as a thing, a means to an end. Man
has dignity because God is his Father.
► The dignity/value/worth of every person is based on the
truth that man is a child of God. That is why each of us is
priceless, valuable, worth loving & worth dying for.
► Not to live/act with dignity & to recognize man’s dignity is to
be immoral/inhuman. To live/act with dignity & to recognize
man’s dignity is to be moral.
► HISTORY would reveal that time & again some
people forget that man has dignity & we are
equal in dignity:
► Violations of Human Dignity (Human Rights):
► Slavery
► Genocide
► Holocaust
► Inquisition
► Racial Discrimination
► Torture & Salvage
► Children being used in War
► Abortion
► Extra Judicial Killing
► Is man basically good or bad?
► Obrero arestado, umamin sa massacre June 30, CAMP JULIAN OLIVAS, Pampanga

► Isang 26-anyos na durugistang construction worker ang umamin sa pulisya sa

pagpatay sa limang miyembro ng isang pamilya at sa panghahalay sa 35-anyos na
ginang at ina nito sa City of San Jose del Monte sa Bulacan makaraang maaresto
kahapon.
► Ang duguang mga bangkay ni Auring Dizon, 53; ng anak niyang si Estrella, 35; at
mga apong edad isa, lima at 11 ay natagpuan sa magkakaibang bahagi ng kanilang
bahay sa North Ridge Royal Subdivision sa Barangay Sto. Cristo, bandang 9:45 ng
umaga nitong Martes.Sinabi ni Carmelino Ibañez, tubong Negros Occidental, sa mga
mamamahayag na kasama sina “Tony” at “Inggo” ay pinagsasaksak nila hanggang
sa mapatay ang mga biktima habang lasing at bangag sila.
► Ayon kay Ibañez, hindi nila plinano ang krimen, at biglaan din ang desisyon nilang
gahasain ang mag-inang Auring at Estrella kahit pa patay na ang mga ito.
► Dagdag pa niya, pinaslang nila ang mag-ina ngunit wala silang intensiyong patayin
din ang tatlong bata.
HOLOCAUST: 6 million Jews died
► 2.) AS A RESULT OF MAN’S DIGNITY, HUMANS ARE BASICALLY
GOOD. HOWEVER, WE ARE ALSO CAPABLE OF DOING EVIL.
► Christianity brings a basic realism to what a human being is.
► The Catholic view about the human person is quite balanced.
► Human beings are, indeed, good by nature, as creations of God.
We’re made for a good purpose and our original design was fitting
to it. So, we all agree that, as creatures, we’re God’s idea, and
God’s idea is always a good idea. God doesn’t create evil. He
creates good. So, in that respect, we’re good. And because God
made humanity for union with himself, he made humanity for a
good end.
► At least at the level of our nature, understood in this way, we’re
a good thing.
► But through the initial introduction of sin, our nature was
wounded and perverted so we enter the world with
disordered inclinations. We’re not born knowing and loving
God as we ought, and we’re disproportionately concerned
with our own power, pleasure, and wealth. Moreover, we find
it much easier to sin than to do good, and while we have no
virtues at all at the time of our birth, we’re born already with
innate vices that’ll shape our moral profile for as long as we
live.
► In other words, while in one sense, human beings are basically
good, it’s also just as true, but in a different sense, that
human beings are basically and profoundly bad.
► To be immoral/inhuman is to be bad and do bad. To be moral
is to be good and do good.
 A GOOD GUIDE TO DO THE RIGHT OR GOOD
THING: DO THE HUMAN THING or MAGPAKATAO
► KA
If it is a human act, it is good; if it is an inhuman act, it is
 bad.
► That is such a simple statement to make. Morality would be
a simple task if only everyone knew and agreed upon what
the human thing was.
► Unfortunately, it is not that easy. Not everyone agrees on a
common definition of what a human is, so not everyone is
going to say that a given action is good or that another
action is bad.
► We are left with the question, what does it mean to be
human? Paano ba magpakatao?(madaling maging tao pero
mahirap magpakatao)
►  
 SUMMARY
► CATHOLIC MORALITY is a science that involves the study of what a
person ought to be by reason of what a person he is.
► 1) REASON reveals that human is an embodied-spirit:
► Has a body
► Rational
► Free
► Capable of loving
► Social being
► Historical being
► 2) FAITH reveals that:
► a) Man has Dignity
► b) Man is both Good & Bad