THE HUMAN PERSON

IN SOCIETY
 RECOGNIZE HOW INDIVIDUALS FORM
SOCIETIES AND HOW INDIVIDUALS
ARE TRANSFORMED BY SOCIETIES

 The information superhighway that we know

todays gives more focus on computer
hardware, software, and systems in terms of
contribution to society as the basic tools
enabling fast and efficient transfer of
information. Before, personal computers were
mainly used for word processing. Nowadays,
the emergence of portable computers enables
many people to transact business anywhere.
 RECOGNIZE HOW INDIVIDUALS FORM
SOCIETIES AND HOW INDIVIDUALS
ARE TRANSFORMED BY SOCIETIES

 Researchers suggested, however, that

Facebook and other social media might lead to
depression. Most of the time, we post smiling
faces, favorite foods, and perfect vacation. We
look at idealized versions of our online friends
leaving us feeling less attractive and less
secure about our own status. We tend to
compare how many “likes” our posts
generated. Due to the comparisons, we become
more dissatisfied.
 RECOGNIZE HOW INDIVIDUALS FORM
SOCIETIES AND HOW INDIVIDUALS
ARE TRANSFORMED BY SOCIETIES

 Therefore, studies indicate that our social

networking sites may disconnect users rather than
connect people.
 If Soren Kierkegaard is correct, rather than being
ourselves, we tend to conform to an image or idea
associated with being a certain type of person. if we
create the people we want to be or the ideal version
of ourselves in our Facebook profiles, then we
conform to a pattern.
 RECOGNIZE HOW INDIVIDUALS FORM
SOCIETIES AND HOW INDIVIDUALS
ARE TRANSFORMED BY SOCIETIES

 Our modern age remains an era of increasing dullness,

conformity, and lack of genuine individual.
 Life was much simpler before. One begins to comprehend
how technology evolved. From medieval crafts to
industrial Revolution that was dominated by factors
such as revolutionary discoveries in natural resources,
detection, and extraction of energy resources, invention
of mechanical devices, availability of investment capital,
improved means of transportation, communication, and
growing interest taken by scientific and commercial
circles of technology and engineering.
 RECOGNIZE HOW INDIVIDUALS FORM
SOCIETIES AND HOW INDIVIDUALS
ARE TRANSFORMED BY SOCIETIES

 Philosophically, our totality, wholeness, or “complete

life,” relies on our social relations. Aristotle said that
friends are two bodies with one soul. Mutual sharing,
acceptance, and sincerity.
 For Buber, the human person attains fulfillment in the
realm of the interpersonal, in meeting the other, through
a genuine dialog. For Wojtyla, through participation, we
share in the humanness of others. Aristotle, Buber, and
Wojtyla stress that the concreteness of our experiences
and existence is directly linked to our experience with
others.
 COMPARE DIFFERENT
FORMS OF SOCIETIES AND
INDIVIDUALITIES
 MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1500 CE)

 Some historians say that the middle ages began in AD

476 when the barbarian Odoacer overthrew Emperor
Romulus Augustulus, ending the Western Roman
Empire; still others say about AD 500 or even later.
Historian s say that the middle ages ended with the fall
of Constantinople.
 The invaders, however, lacked the knowledge and skills
to carry on Roman achievements in art, literature, and
engineering. In effect, highly developed systems of
Roman law and government gave way to the rude forms
of the barbarians. Thus, the early Medieval Period is
sometimes referred to as the Dark Ages.
 MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1500 CE)

 In the reign of Clovis, Christianity began to life Europe

from the Dark Ages. Many barbarians had become
Christians earlier though mostly hold the Arian belief,
a doctrine that holds the conviction that the Son of
God is finite and created b God the Father and, thus,
condemned as heresy by the church.
 Arian – of or relating to Arius or his doctrines
especially that the Son is not of the same substance
as the Father but was created as an agent for creating
the world.
 MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1500 CE)

 Christianity`s influence widened when the great

Charlemagne became king of the Franks who founded
schools in monasteries and churches for both the poor
and nobility (the group of people who are members of the
highest social class in some countries)
 The way of life in the Middle Ages is called feudalism,
which comes from medieval Latin feudum, meaning
property or possession. Peasants, about nine-tenths of
them, are farmers or village laborers. All peasants –
men, women and children worked to support their lord.
Many peasants built their villages of huts near the
castles of their lords for protection in exchange of their
services.
 MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1500 CE)

 Besides labor, peasants had to pay taxes to their lord, in

money or produce. In addition, they had to give the tithe
to the church for instance, every tenth egg, wheat. Etc.
famines were frequent. Plagues cut down the livestock.
Floods, frosts and droughts destroyed the crops.
 However, with the growth of commerce and towns,
feudalism as a system of government began to pass. As
changes in business, government, and social customs
steadily shaped a new life in Europe, rising interest in
artistic and intellectual achievements reached a peak in
the Renaissance – a revival of classical learning.
 MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1500 CE)

 The Middle Ages employed pedagogical methods

that caused the intercommunication between the
various intellectual centers and the unity of
scientific language. In all schools, philosophy was
taught in the Latin language. Philosophical works
were written in Latin.
 MODERN PERIOD (1500-1800)

 The modern period is generally said to

begin around 1500. less than a decade
the arbitrary date Christopher Columbus
had landed his ships in the new world,
altering not only the geography but the
politics of the world forever.
 Only a decade after, Martin Luther would
tack 95 theses to the door of the church
at Wittenberg and initiate the
reformation, which would case several
centuries of upheaval in Europe, change
the nature of Christian religion, and
eventually change conceptions of human
nature.
 HUMAN BEING IS THE MOST
INTERESTING IN NATURE DURING THE
MODERN PERIOD

 Leadership in art and literature reached peak in the

Renaissance period. The result is the revival of ancient
philosophy and European philosophers turning from
supernatural to natural or rational explanations of the
world.
 Experimentation, observation and application of
mathematics in the natural sciences set standards for
philosophic inquiry. Discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo,
Kepler and Newton influenced the thinking of
philosophers.
 Nonetheless, we should not overemphasize the triumphs
of modern science in the history of modern philosophy.
 GLOBALIZATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL
INNOVATIONS

 Globalization is not a one-way process, but

comprises the multilateral interactions among
global systems, local practices, transnational
trends, and personal lifestyles.
 The process of globalization however, had already
begun long before the 21st century. Globalization,
in the sense of adoption and acceptance of some
standards in the various aspects of life.
 GLOBALIZATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL
INNOVATIONS

 The introduction of new inventions in science

eventually led to the industrial revolution in the
eighteenth century, and since then western society
has taken off on a journey through the endless
world of science to bring society into the developed
conditions that can be today.
 The industrial revolution is a movement in which
machines changed people`s way of life as well as
their methods of manufacture.
 GLOBALIZATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL
INNOVATIONS

 Industrial revolution – came gradually in a short span of

time.
-grew more powerful each year due to new invention
and manufacturing processes that added to the efficiency
of machine.
Significant changes that brought about the industrial
revolution were (Germain 2000)
• The invention of machines in lieu of doing the work of
hand tools;
• The use of steam and other kinds of power, the muscles
of human and animals;
• The embracing of factory system.
 GLOBALIZATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL
INNOVATIONS

 As technology advanced, more and more automatic

machines were invented to handle the jobs with
supervision by human beings.
 Countless generations of technological
achievements have been compressed into little more
than half a century.
 The important of media communication in such a
society is paramount, and the computer as a tireless
process of energy is a vital link.
 GLOBALIZATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL
INNOVATIONS

 Everywhere, the computer is assuming an

increasingly central place in scientific research
and data processing is becoming all important.
The Google`s current mission is to fulfill a search
engine that is Artificial intelligence complete or
one that is smarter than people.
 Artificial Intelligence (AI) – is a branch of
computer science or the study and design of
intelligent agents where an intelligent agent is a
system that perceives its environment and takes
actions that maximize its chances of success.
 GLOBALIZATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL
INNOVATIONS

 Messages and data can travel in a big office through

the use of local and wide area network. The
emergence of notebooks or portable computers
enables business and learning to occur in an
airplane or anywhere.
 Nonetheless, we should not overemphasize the
triumphs of modern science in the history of
modern philosophy.
 As technology is exploited, it becomes easier for
those already wealthy to maintain their advantage.
 CHANGES AS CONDITIONS OF
MODERN LIFE

 As industry changed social and political conditions

transformed. European farmers and artisans flocked
to the manufacturing centers and become industrial
workers. Cities grew quickly as the percentage of
farmers in the population declined.
 The revolutionary change in our way of life in
modern times, which for several centuries was
confined principally to the Western people, has in
our lifetime come to affect all humanity.
 A. NEW KNOWLEDGE

 “Know thyself” is the main idea of Socrates of good

living. Socrates lived around 469 BC in Greece. His
saying “knowledge is virtue; ignorance is vice” is a
summation of what he wants to teach about how
human beings should live a good life. Ignorance, as
opposite of knowledge, is the source of evil.
Humanity commits evil because people do not know
any better.
 Humanity has met with increasing success in
understanding the secrets of nature and applying
this new knowledge to human affairs.
 B. POLICY MAKING

 At present one of the most important consequences

of the application of this new knowledge to human
affairs has been increased integration of policy
making. In the private realm, system of
transportation, communication, business, and
education have tended to become larger and more
centralized.
 Most communication at the national level have
become unified, and many are now organized on a
worldwide basis. In the public realm, governments
have increasingly tended to accumulate functions
formerly performed by the province, district, tribe or
family.
 B. POLICY MAKING

 As life has become more complex, the legal

system has also grown to the point where almost
all human activities come in contact with the law
in one form or another. This integration of policy
making has brought people within states into an
unprecedentedly closer relationship and has
resulted in a greater complexity of social
organization.
 C. ECONOMIC SPHERE

 The effects of new knowledge have been partially

noticeable in the economic sphere. Technical
improvements have made possible a
mechanization of labor that has resulted in mass
production, the rapid growth in per capital
productivity, and an increasing division of labor.
 A greater quantity of goods has been produced
during the past century in the entire preceding
period of human history.
 D. SOCIAL REALM

 Equally important are the changes that have taken

place in the social realm. Traditional societies are
typically closed and rigid in their structure. The
members of such societies are primarily peasants
living in relatively isolated villages, poor and
illiterate and having little contact with the central
political authorities.
 The way of life of peasants may remain virtually
unchanged for centuries. Modern knowledge and
the technology it has created have had an immense
impact on this traditional way of life.
 In a modern society, 2/3 or more of the population
lives in cities, and literacy is virtually universal.
Health has also greatly impro
 This complex and interrelated series of changes in
humanity`s way of life is generally known as
Modernization.
 Modernization has changed the power
relationships among societies by rapidly
strengthening the position of some at the expense
of others.
 At the same time, societies has become more
interdependent, and the conduct of their relations
has been transformed. While many of the traditional
forms of international relations have survived –
alliances and war, conquest and colonization,
cultural diffusion and propaganda.
 Modernization is seen as part of the universal
experience, and in many respects, it is one that
holds great hope for the welfare of humanity. Yet, it
has also been in many respects a destructive process.
It has destroyed traditional patterns of life, which
had evolved through the centuries many humane
values.
 E. TECHNOLOGY
 The more society is influenced by technology, the
more we need to consider the social, ethical, and
technological, and scientific aspects of each decision
and choice.
 Science has greatly influenced the picture we have
of human existence and what is essential to
humanity. Therefore, the difficulty to the period of
rapid change challenges us to discover more about
what is fundamental to our existence.
 In the present era, humanity does not live according
to the natural cycles regulated by natural rhythms
anymore (Germain 2000). Instead, it is governed by
a second nature that is an artificial environment
characterized by the results of technology.
 Modern era is characterized by new inventions that
sometimes cannot be followed by most people,
because technology is not only the copy of the 1st
nature but a replacement of nature itself.
 It has to be admitted, that in this century, human
success – whether personal or as species – is
measured by success in mastering science and
technology. Modern people also cannot isolate
themselves and live without technology.
 F. ON (WOMEN`S) FRIENDSHIP

 Women`s friendship has a unique quality that may

only exist between women. There`s sexual attraction
between a man and a woman (eros), which is
another completely different thing.
 According to Joy Carolin her book, The Fabric of
Friendship. Women`s friendships are special. girls`
and later women, can discuss with each other
anything or everything – whether dreams, fears,
children, boyfriends, or dying. There is a quality of
friendship between women offering sympathy,
learning, validations, and advices.
 TRUE FRIENDS

 True friendships allow each other to be completely

themselves. Acceptance and love give women the
courage to try new experience and stretch their
wings.
 Our female friends are extremely important to our
emotional and physical health. Carol cities that
strong female relationships lead to happiness and
healthier lives. People with less or no friends at all
tend to smoke, become overweight, and not
exercise.
 MISS “NOT ALWAYS SWEET”

 However, women’s envy, competition,

recrimination, and miscommunication can cause
problems to their friendship.
 In a certain study, women initially deny their
attitude toward other women, such as subjecting
them to disrespect.
 Women had been considered the inferior gender
by cultures and societies.
 The Transformation of Human
Relationships by Social Systems and How
Societies Transform Individual Human
Beings

 Science has greatly influenced the picture we

have of human existence and what is essential
to humanity .Therefore, the difficulty to the
period of rapid change challenges us to discover
more about what is fundamental to our
existence.
 The Transformation of Human
Relationships by Social Systems and How
Societies Transform Individual Human
Beings

 Martin Heidegger’s call for

meditative thinking or
philosophical reflection has a very
important role in this connection.
 The Transformation of Human
Relationships by Social Systems and How
Societies Transform Individual Human
Beings

 At present, humanity does not live according to

the natural cycle regulated by natural rhythms
anymore but instead, live in an artificial
environment characterized by the result of
technology.
 Exact science and technology had functioned as
the “liberation” with the power to set us free.
They have saved and liberated human being
from ignorance, under development, and poverty.