LA CONSOLACION COLLEGE

(Formerly: Sacred Heart Academy)

PACUCOA ACCREDITED LEVEL II
Bais City, Negros Oriental
Telefax No. (035) 541-5097 email: lccbaiscity@yahoo.com/www.lccb.edu.ph

ACTIVITY SHEETS

INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE

HUMAN PERSON

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What’s New?
Activity 1: Think and List!
Think of 3 simple, serious, and deep questions that you ever asked yourself. Were you able to
give answers to those queries? Example: Why is there a night and a day? Why can’t we see the
air? Why is it that we cannot hold the water for so long?
Questions: Day-day Encounter Possible answer:
1.Why is it important to eat breakfast?  There are many benifits to having a
breakfast. This is why we called 'breakfast is
the most important meal'. We need to eat
breakfast so that we don't grow weary and
also we can be productive every day.
2.Why is it hard to move on?  You went through a lot with that person, so
it's hard for you to move on. Happy memories
and sad ones are not merely forgotten. It's like
a nightmare that is hard to get rid of. But it
takes perseverance and time for us to be able
to move on.
3.Why are we happy with things that hurt us?  When you love it you feel the satisfaction
that you want and you'll feel joy. Nothing can
beat love even if its substitute is pain because
we love the things even if it hurts for us.

Processing Question: ( 5 POINTS EACH)

1. Why did you come up with those questions?

_Because_those_are_the_first_three_questions_that_I_thinked_of_and_for_me_it's_relatable_in
_my_life_situation.______________________________________________________________
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2. What did you feel in asking yourself those questions?

_In_my_16_years_of_living.I'm_still_confuse_of_the_things_that_I_don't_know_and_I'm_cravi
ng_for_knowledge.These_questions_are_one_of_it.I_still_can't_find_the_exact_answer_but_I_h
ave_opinions_that_might_be_right_or_answers_that_are_close_to_my_questions.____________
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Directions: Read the poem below.

Blind Men and the Elephant – A Poem by John Godfrey Saxe
Here is John Godfrey Saxe’s (1816-1887) version of Blind Men and the Elephant:
It was six men of Indostan,

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 To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.
The First approach’d the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
“God bless me! but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!”
The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried, -”Ho! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me ‘tis mighty clear,
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!”
The Third approach’d the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
“I see,” -quoth he- “the Elephant
Is very like a snake!”
The Fourth reached out an eager hand,
And felt about the knee:
“What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mighty plain,” -quoth he,-
“’Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!”
The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,
Said- “E’en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact who can,
This marvel of an Elephant

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 Is very like a fan!”
The Sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Then, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
“I see,” -quoth he,- “the Elephant
Is very like a rope!”
And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!

Directions: Answer the questions deliberately. ( 5 POINTS EACH )

1. Enumerate all the partial point of views of the six blind men.
2. Give your own holistic perspective of an elephant.
3. What is the moral lesson of the poem?

1. Man 1: The elephant is very like a wall

Man 2: The elephant is like a spear
Man 3: The elepant is very like a snake
Man 4: The elephant is very like a tree.
Man 5: The marvel of an elephant is like a fan
Man 6: The elephant is like a rope.

2. The elephant's side, tusk, trunk, leg, ears, and tail were all touched by men. Because they were
blind, they mistook them for something else: a wall, a spear, a snake, a tree, a fan, and a rope.The
bottom line is that they are all touching the same thing (elephant), but because they are observing
it from only one perspective, they end up disputing about what it is.

3. The lesson of the story is that truth is subjective to one's own point of view, and because truth
is relative, we should value other people's perspectives. After all, their understanding of reality is
built on a different set of assumptions than ours.