SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Introduction to the
Philosophy of the
Human Person
Quarter 1 – Module 4
Doing Philosophy

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 OVERVIEW
Hello dear learners! Welcome to this module on Introduction to the Philosophy of the
Human Person. This module will help you understand the meaning and process of doing
philosophy of the human person as an embodied being in the world and the environment as a
means towards a holistic understanding of life. It contains activities that will help you reflects on a
concrete experience in a philosophical way and demonstrates various ways of doing philosophy
and evaluate opinion. The module is self – instructional and allows you to learn in your own space,
at your own pace. So, relax and enjoy learning.
To the teacher:
This lesson assume that the teacher has already introduced to his/ her learners knowledge
about philosophy and its importance as discipline and a means of understanding life.
The primary goal of this module is to help learners engaged in some simple activities in
order to have necessary skills and understanding and reflects on a concrete experience in a
philosophical way.
To the Learners:
At the end of this module, you will be able to reflect on your daily experiences from a
holistic point of view and acquires critical and analytical thinking skills so that you can apply this
critical and analytical thinking skills to the affairs of your daily life and should be able to
demonstrate a capacity for a critical and analytical reflection from the perspective of a holistic and
profound vision of life.
In order to achieve the objectives of this module, it is necessary to have completed all the
module for you to fully understand the activities and discussions.

Specifically, this module consists of the following lessons:

 Lesson 4.1- Notice things that are not in their proper place and organize them in an aesthetic
way.
 Lesson 4.2 – Show that care for the environment contributes to health, well-being and
sustainable development.
 Lesson 4.3 – Demonstrate the virtues of prudence and frugality towards environments.

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 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

For the learners:

To be guided in achieving the objectives of this module, do the
following:
1. Read and follow instructions carefully.
2. Write all your ANSWERS in your PHILOSOPHY ACTIVITY
NOTEBOOK.
3. Answer the pretest before going through the lessons.
4. Take note and record points for clarification.
5. Compare your answers against the key to answers found at
the end of the module.
6. Do the activities and fully understand each lesson.
7. Answer the self-check to monitor what you learned in each
lesson.
8. Answer the posttest after you have gone over all the lessons.

For the teacher:

To facilitate and ensure the students’ learning from this module,
you are encouraged to do the following (you may edit this part):
1. Clearly communicate learning competencies and objectives
2. Motivate through applications and connections to real life.
3. Give applications of the theory
4. Discuss worked-out examples
5. Give time for hands-on unguided classroom work and
discovery
6. Use formative assessment to give feedback
7. Introduce extensions or generalizations of concepts
8. Engage in reflection questions
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9. Encourage analysis through higher order thinking
 Lesson
The Human Person in
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John Donne: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a
part of the main.”

This means that as human person, it is our responsibility to treat a person with respect not only
our fellow humans but also everything in this world. Humankind is a part of the world, and we
significantly affect our environment in the same manner of what that changes in our environment
affect us.

What I Need to Know

By the end of this lesson, you are expected to:

1. Notice disorder in the environment;
2. Notice things that are not in their proper place and organize them in an aesthetic way;
3. Show that care for the environment contributes to health, well-being and sustainable
development; and
4. Demonstrate the virtues of prudence and thriftiness towards the environment.

What I know
PRE-TEST
Directions: Read each item carefully and choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your
answers on a separate sheet of paper or in your notebook.
1. What is environment philosophy?
A. Discipline that studies the moral relationship of human beings with the environment and
its non-human contents.
B. Is part of the world, and we significantly affect in environment.
C. Significantly role of humankind in the world.
D. Extends intrinsic value and moral consideration to higher forms of animals
2. It believes that humans are not the only significant species on the planet.
A. Anthropocentrism
B. Panthocentrism
C. Biocentrism
D. Ecocentrism

3. A science that deals with the relationships between groups of living things and their

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 environments.
A. Anthropocentrism
B. Ecology
C. Ecofeminism
D. Ecocentrism

4. What is a flame in cyberspace?

A. A person who follows the rules of Netiquette.
B. An expert programmer.
C. An online chain letter.
D. A post or email message that expresses a strong opinion or criticism.
5. Knowledge and understanding of netiquette is useful because ___________
A. it helps you create a positive impression on those you meet in cyberspace.
B. it explains some of the technical limitations of online communications.
C. it explains the conventions already being used by millions of cybernauts.
D. All of the above.

6. What type of online threat happens when an attacker uses electronic devices to do unwanted
surveillance against its victim?
A. Cyberbullying B. Phising C. Spamming D. Cyberstalking

7. What type of online threat happens when the attacker impersonates another individual or
organization to gather personal or business information?
A. Cyberstalking B. Spoofing C. Scamming D. Pharming

8. What type of information should you avoid giving when using the internet?
A. Phone number
B. Profile Picture
C. Shirt Size
D. Religion

9. What is the golden rule of netiquette?

A. Remember the human.
B. Put a smiley in every message.
C. Use correct grammar.
D. Respect people’s time.

10.You get an email telling you that you won a hundred thousand without joining in a competition.
You should ____________.
A. Claim the prize.
B. Ignore the email.
C. Return the email with response.
D. Send rude message as revenge

Notice things that

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place and organize them in an aesthetic way

 Lesson
4.1.1

What’s In it?
Listen and sing the song together.
Examine the following pictures below then listen and sing the song together. You
can watch video clips and use it as a guide. After singing it then discuss:
“Wala ka bang napapansin sa iyong mga kapaligiran?
Kay dumi na ng hangin, pati na ang mga ilog natin. Hindi nga masama ang pagunlad
at malayo-layo na rin ang ating narrating…”
–ASIN

YOUR MISSION: FIND ORDER FROM DISORDER

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 Do you think that our environment is in a state of disorder? Why do you think so?
Find out how to understand the environment philisophycally in this lesson.

Environmental philosophy is the discipline that studies the moral relationships of

human beings with the environment and its non-human contents. Philosophers believe that the
human person has the ability to change the environment to suit his purposes. It will enable them
to become aware of their relationship and its related issues in our society and their impact on the
lives of human persons.

“What is the world made of?” “How did the world come into being?” and “How can we explain the
process of change?” were philosophical questions already brought up approximately 600 B.C.E.
(before the common era) in the Western lonian seaport town of Miletus across the Aegean Sea
from Athens, Greece.

Eastern sages probed nature’s depths intuitively through the eyes of spiritual sages which Greek
thinkers viewed nature through cognitive and scientific eyes (Price 2000). These thinkers were
looking for the underlying laws of nature. They wanted to understand the processes of nature by
studying nature itself, not by listening to the stories about the gods.

According to Payne (2010) there are two frameworks where humans can be
related.

1. Anthropocentric Model. Based on the anthropocentric model, humans

are superior and central to the universe, thus, it is human centered.

2.
Ecocentric Model.
It is the ecological or relational integrity of the humans that provides meaning of our morals and
values and it is nature centered. Devoted to preserving the totality of Earth’s biodiversity and the

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functioning of its life –supporting system

Ecocentric Model

Econcentric model, the ecological or relational integrity of the humans provides

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meaning of our morals and values and it is nature centered.
Devoted to preserving the totality of Earth’s biodiversity and the functioning of it’s
life supporting system.

Notice disorder in the environment

DIRECTIONS: Interactive work: Write your answer in your notebook.

1. In your opinion, how can we protect, conserve and restore our environment?
You can further assess your answer by planning a nature walk or gardening.

a. How can you promote the human person in the environment through nature walk or
gardening?

b. Design: Conceptualize your designs if you will choose gardening. If you choose
nature walk, your teacher must suggest safe place such as Lab Mesa Dam, etc.

2. Based on the previous images, what could be improper? Are you happy with what you
see or experience in nature? How will you organize or improve the environment or world
that you belong to?

What Is It?
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 A. Ancient Thinkers
Anaximander a pre-Socratic philosopher and scientist said about the
creation-Destruction. According to him, the sketch of the genesis of the
world (cosmology), the evolution of the world begins with the generation of
opposites in certain region Nature. Nature is indeterminate-boundless in
the sense that no boundaries between the warm and or the moist and dry
regions are originally present within.

B. Modern Thinker

Herbert Marcuse said about the power of humans

over nature, while George Herbert Mead tackled
about our duties and responsibilities.
American Philosopher

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 What I can Do?
ACTIVITY 4.1.2 Notice things that are not in their proper place
and organize them in an aesthetic way

DIRECTIONS: Interactive work: Write your answer in your notebook.

1. Discussion: Compare the importance of nature from past to present.

2. Self-review: Study the ecocentric model and evaluate your personal understandings and
attitudes towards environment.
3. Visually guided learning:
A. Answer how you can organize the following images in a more aesthetic way.
B. Consider how you can form the images in an aesthetic way:

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 Lesson Show that care for the environment contributes to
4.2 health, well being and sustainable development

What Is It?
There are numerous theories to show care for the environment aside from
the ecocentric model such as deep ecology, social ecology and ecofeminism
to name some.

What I Can Do?

ACTIVITY 4.2. Show that care for the environment contributes to health, well-
being and sustainable development

DIRECTIONS: Reflect and think of different ways on how mankind can address an environmental
Issue. Use the concept web. Write your answer in your notebook.

Environmental
Issue
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 Lesson Demonstrate the virtues of prudence and
4.3 frugality towards environment

What Is It?
A self-supporting college student works part-time as a service crew to be able
to fund his education. He earns PhP2,000.00 more than what he needs to pay
for monthly expenses. With this extra money, he could have bought the
expensive watch he always wanted. Thinking practically, he decided to save his money in the bank
instead.

1. How will you describe this college student?

2. What qualities does he possess regarding handling his money?
3. How can you relate his behavior to current environment trends?

Prudence describes someone or something as

showing special care or thought towards matters of
the future. Although often applied to someone who is
cautious with money, a person can be prudent by
showing any form of good judgement or foresight,
such as by making a to-do list to save time or buying
emergency supplies before a storm. The word is
almost always used with a positive connotation, as it
implies a high level of insight into practical activities. As a result, a person who is prudent is often
regarded as wise, shrewd, and considerate. It is also important to note that prudent suggests a
certain level of intelligence or acumen; this sets it apart from similar words such
as stingy or tightfisted. Whereas someone who is stingy is needlessly conservative, the person who
is prudent will eventually reap some kind of benefit.

PRUDENCE FRUGALITY

The quality of being thrifty, sparing or

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 Covers good judgment, considering the economical in the consumption of
consequences of an action, using common resources and avoiding waste,
sense and discretion, exercising caution, and lavishness, or extravagance
conforming to reason and decency

The word FRUGALITY is oftentimes used in money; a thriftiness

or a quality of being economical with money.  If this term is
applied in the environment, this simply means that you have
to CONSERVE as well as PROTECT the environment.  And
frugality coupled with the word PRUDENCE which simply
means intelligent, creates a better world in our environment. 
You will act, use and harness all available resources possible in
our environment conservatively and intelligently, and of
course, with all due respect to the society and human life as
well.

What I Can Do?

ACTIVITY 4.3. How will you apply Prudence and frugality in using natural
resources at home and in community? Enumerate atleast five ways.
Write your answers in your notebook.

1. ___________________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________________________________

Assessment

Directions: Read carefully and write the letter of your answer on your notebook.

1. What is the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason?
a. Transcendence
b. Frugality
c. Aesthetics
d. prudence

2. What is the act of using or other resources wisely and practically?

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 a. Aesthetics
b. Prudence
c. Frugality
d. Economics

3. What may be a sign of an environmental disorder?

a. Lack of material things
b. Lack of resources
c. Lack of friends
d. Lack of space

4. Which among the following options is a disorder in the environment?

a. A basket of unwashed dirty clothes
b. A house with no single plant
c. A garden with dying plants
d. A library with a small number of books

5. In what way can the environment contribute to health and well-being?

a. It can be available anywhere.
b. It is the source of life.
c. It an produce products that provide medicinal value.
d. It is made up of consumers and producers.

6. In which of the following scenarios is prudence demonstrated?

a. Ordering food that you can consume
b. Searching assignment answers over the internet
c. Keeping the lights on all day
d. Being friendly to neighbors

7. Lila wants to buy an expensive phone using the money she has been saving since last year. She
asked for her friends’ opinions in making her decision.Which among her friends is frugal?
a. Jen suggested that she should spend the money for travel abroad.
b. Marco advised her to spend the money on the expensive phone.
c. Aiza said that the she should go on a shopping spree using the money.
d. Jack suggested that she should keep the money for future, more important uses.

8. Which of the given statements is true?

1. Prudence and frugality can only be applied in one environment.
2. Looking at aesthetics is a way of determining disorder.
a. both statements 1 and 2 c. statement 1
b. neither statement 1 nor 2 d. statement 2

9. what is the role of the environment in achieving sustainable development?

1. It can reproduce resources.
2. It is the venue for producer-consumer relationships.

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 a. Statement 1
b. Statement 2
c. Neither statement 1 nor 2
d. Both statements 1 and 2

10. Which of the given statements is true about frugality?

1. It is only limited to tangible or solid materials
2. It applies to a select few.
a. Statement 1
b. Both statement 1 and 2
c. Statement 2
d. Neither statement 1 nor 2

Congratulations!
You have completed your
journey in
this module.
You did a great job!
It’s now time to go on to the
next
adventure…
Good luck!

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