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This unit deals with the skills and knowledge required for the course INTRODUCTION
TO PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN PERSON.
This module consists of eight (8) Performance Standards. Each standard contains learning
activities for knowledge and skills, supported with information sheets, quizzes, activities,
and performance checklists/ rubrics, gathered from god’s grace can only gain innocence
of heart and purity the information/activity sheets and answer the self-activities provided
to confirm to yourself and your instructor that you are equipped with the knowledge
necessary to perform the skills portion of the particular learning outcomes.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA:
At the end of this week, the learner will be able to;
1. Recognize your limitations and possibilities.
2. Evaluate their limitations and the possibilities for their transcendence.
3. Recognize how the human body imposes limits and possibilities for
transcendence.
4. Distinguish the limitations and possibilities for transcendence.
5. Notice disorder in an environment
6. Notice things that are not in their proper place and organize them in an aesthetic
way
7. Show that care for the environment contributes to health, well-being, and
sustainable development
8. Demonstrate the virtues of prudence and frugality towards environments.
CONDITIONS:
The students must be provided with the following:
1.1 CBLM
1.2 Pen and paper
METHODOLOGIES: PLATFORM:
Self-paced instruction CBLM
2. Activity 3.5-2 Answer Activity 3.5-1 “Know thy Limits” September 13-17, 2021
followed by answering the guide questions.
Submit it on September 17, 2021, before
5:00 pm
3. Read Information Please read the information sheet 3.6-1, September 20-24, 2021
sheet 3.6-1 “The “The Human Person as an Embodied
Human Person as an Spirit.”
Embodied Spirit.”
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2. What are your strengths? What are the possible things or statuses that you can reach
or achieve in the future?
4. Do you see yourself improving in 5-10 years? How can you say that you are
improving?
The most direct connotation in mind when we say Embodied is that it is being
materialized or incarnated. When we say embodied spirit is a spirit being incarnated.
However, the idea of a human person as an embodied spirit does not necessarily refer to
the incarnation or materialization of spirit as an immaterial entity.
The concept of embodied spirit in the concept of the Christian Philosophy, the
inseparable union of body and soul. Thus, when we say embodied spirit we mean that the
body is not separate from the soul, just as the soul is not separate from the body.
So when we say that the human person is an embodied spirit we can specifically
mean that the human person is the point of convergence between the material and
spiritual entities that is between the body and soul. We cannot talk therefore of the human
person without the union of body and soul just as we cannot talk of anything without the
union of matter and form.
Now to understand the specificity of the human person as an embodied spirit is
important because aside from the fact that it enables us to know our potentialities and
limitations, it also exposes us to a thorough and
deeper understanding of ourselves as a unique
creature united by body and soul.
We need to understand that the term soul is
the English translation of the Greek word psyche
and for Aristotle, the general definition of the soul
involves the concept of life.
Thus the soul for Aristotle is the principle of
life. This suggests therefore that anything that has
life has a soul. As the principle of life, the soul causes the body to live. Indeed, it is the
soul that animates the body. If the soul is animated by the body, the body acts as the
matter to the soul.
When we say body it is a physical aspect and the philosophers believe the body is
with our perception.
There are times when we pay attention to our bodies rather than simply moving
about doing day-to-day activities, usually when some part of it hurts. For instance, when
you have a toothache so painful that you become aware of how something so small can
have pain so massive, you end up being sorry for all your bad life choices.
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Biological Perspective considers man as a part of the natural world and a product of
evolution. The biological perspective is a way of looking at psychological issues by
studying the physical basis for animal and human behavior.
(It is one of the major perspectives in psychology and involves such things as studying the
brain, immune system, nervous system, and genetics.)
Culture is considered man’s most significant achievement, which set apart the
evolution of humanity from other species on this planet.
(Ex: Customs, laws, dress, architectural style, social standards, religious beliefs, and
traditions.)
The Self as Innate is an essential part of the human being, and self-awareness is
naturally innate. Innatism is a philosophical and epistemological doctrine that holds that
the mind is born with ideas/knowledge.
(Therefore the mind is not a "blank slate" at birth)
The self as Emergent is the awareness of the self is gained through interaction
with the world and other humans. Emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have
properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors which emerge only
when the parts interact in a wider whole.
(Ex. In biology, the heart is made of heart cells, heart cells on their own don't have the
property of pumping blood. You will need the whole heart to be able to pump blood.)
RUBRICS
… all the things you can do ….all the things you cannot do
1. Recognize how the human body imposes limits and possibilities for
transcendence.
2. Distinguish the limitations and possibilities for transcendence.
Guide Question:
1. How do you understand the quote of Saint Augustine? Explain your answer in
your own words.
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In the past, most high school students had no chance to read or encounter
philosophical tests. While college students ask about the concept of “transcendence,”
they will usually answer: I cannot believe in invisible existence. To see is to believe.
However, there are still the majority of college students who have strong convictions
concerning faith, which transcend what is seen or touched by bodily senses.
A. Forgiveness
When we forgive, we are freed
from our anger and bitterness because of
our actions and words. On the other
hand, the hardness of our hearts is
reinforced by a whole series of rational
arguments.
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C. Vulnerability
To be invulnerable is somehow
inhuman. To be vulnerable is to be
human. Supermen or superheroes are
hiding from their true humanity. The
experience that we are contingent, that
we are dependent for our existence on
another, is frightening. To work in the
office or study in school without
acknowledging the help of others is to
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Recognize the Human Body Imposes Limits and Possibilities for Transcendence
A. Hinduism: Reincarnation and Karma
An interesting Hindu belief is the transmigration
of souls, reincarnation, or “metempsychosis.” Essential
Hinduism is based on the belief in karma and has its first
literary expression in Upanishads. Everything in this
life, say the Hindus, is a consequence of actions
performed in the previous existence. Only by building
up an acceptable record, or “karma,” can final salvation
be achieved. This doctrine is a very old one. For the
Jains, there is nothing mightier in the world than karma;
karma tramples down all powers, like an elephant to a
clump of lotuses (Puligandla 2007). The Buddhists took
it over in large part when they broke away from
Brahmanism.
actions.
The truth of St. Augustine’s message still rings true to this day. Despite
Augustine’s period, which was decadent, are our times any less corrupt? The
innocence of heart and purity can only be gained by God’s grace. God alone can
give that gift to some instantly or to others at the end of an entire life’s struggle.
That gift, in itself, is a major triumph. Through prayer, modesty, fasting, and other
sound measures that the Church recommends, God provides, can purity of heart,
mind, and body be maintained and daily lived (Johnston 2006).
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Processing Questions:
1. Which of the pictures show a much preferable condition?
The ecocentric model puts the ecosystem first and assumes that the natural world
has intrinsic value. Nature is not valued for the future survival of the human species per
se but is invaluable in itself. For instance, humans have a responsibility toward the land.
However, because of the anthropocentric attitude, humanity claims ownership or
authority over the land.
For the ecocentric model, instead, love, respect, admiration for nature, and high
regard for its value are essential. For instance, in the ecocentric model, the land will be
If humanity overworks the soil and substitutes domesticated species of plants and
animals for wild ones, human-made changes threaten the health of nature. Unlike changes
in the evolutionary process, our human interventions have swift and even, violent effects
in nature. A study blames human activities for a drastic decline in a wildlife population.
Due to hunting and fishing, 52% of the wildlife population deteriorated. Whether nature
can adapt to these changes and self-renew becomes a vague issue.
The study, for instance, established that the damage is not inevitable but a
consequence of our choices. Accordingly, humanity needs to develop an “ecological
conscience” based on individual responsibility.
In 2004, indigenous grandmothers, representing tribes from the Arctic Circle, Nepal,
and Tibet held a meeting to be able to preserve their community. Deeply concerned with
the destruction of Mother Earth, including the contamination of air, water, and soil, war,
poverty, and destruction of the indigenous way of life, they have committed themselves
to form an alliance that will embrace prayer, education, and healing for our Mother Earth,
for all her inhabitants and for the future generations.
The 2007 United Nations Declaration grants the indigenous people “the right to
conservation, restoration, and protection of the total environment and the productive
capacity of their lands, and resources, as well as the assistance for this purpose from
States and through international cooperation.” The relationship of the indigenous people
with the environment is, thus spiritually and materially strengthened (Ramiscal 2013).
A. Ancient Thinkers
Early Greek philosophers, the Melisians, regarded Nature as spatially without
boundaries, that is, as infinite or infinite in extent. One ancient thinker, Anaximander,
employed the term “boundless” to convey the further thought that nature is
indeterminate—boundless in the sense that no boundaries between the warm and cold or
the moist and dry regions are originally present within it (Solomon & Higgins 2010).
https://wethinkthrough.com/2018/10/26/anaximander/
Anaximander
Creation & Destruction. According to Anaximander’s sketch of the genesis of
the world (cosmogony), the evolution of the world begins with the generation of
opposites in a certain region of nature; a portion of the boundless first differentiates itself
into a cold moist-mass surrounded by a roughly spherical shell of the warm-dry. Once the
warm-dry has been separated out, surrounding the cold-moist, it begins to evaporate the
moisture of the latter, and the process forms a vaporous atmosphere.
Eventually, the expanding vapor or steam bursts, enclosing fiery shells into rings
and rushing outward, enveloping them. The opposite forces caused an imbalance that
necessitated their ultimate destruction (Price 2000). What appears to us as heavenly
bodies are in reality parts of the fiery rings that we glimpse through openings left in their
steamy, vaporous envelopes. The revolution of the stars, sun, and moon around the
central earth is in reality the rotation of the vapor-enveloped rings of fire.
Pythagoras
Another ancient philosopher, Pythagoras, described the universe as the living
embodiment of nature’s order, harmony, and beauty. He sees our relationship with the
universe involving biophilia (love of other living things) and cosmophilia (love of other
living beings). Perhaps, we could consider the early him as an ecologist.
The Chinese cosmic conception, on the other hand, is based on the assumption
that all that happens in the universe is a continuous whole like a chain of natural
consequences. All events in the universe follow the universe and do not proceed onward
but revolve without beginning or end. There is nothing new under the sun; the “new” is a
repetition of the old (Quito 1991). Human being’s happiness lies in their conformity with
nature or tao; the wise, therefore, conform to tao and are happy.
B. Modern Thinkers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant
Immanuel Kant
In his third critique, Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant expresses that beauty
is ultimately a symbol of morality (Kant1977). According to him, we must ignore any
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herbert-Marcuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert_Mead
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8788.Erich_Fr
Erich Fromm
Fromm (2013) proposed a new society that should encourage the emergence of a
new human being that will foster prudence and moderation or frugality toward the
environment. These are some of the functions of Fromm’s envisioned society:
1. The willingness to give up all forms of having, in order to fully be.
2. Being fully present where one is.
3. Trying to reduce greed, hate, and illusions as much as one is capable.
4. Making the full growth of oneself and one’s fellow beings as the supreme goal of
living.
5. Not deceiving others, but also not being deceived by others; one may be called
innocent, but not naïve.
Sample Brochure:
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Display All parts are clearly Many parts are clearly Some parts are clearly All parts are not
labeled labeled labeled clearly labeled
Mechanics and There are no mistakes There are minor There are several There are many
Spelling in mechanics, spelling mistakes in mechanics mistakes in mechanics mistakes in mechanics
a and spelling that do and spelling and spelling
not detract from the
presentation
Layout The layout is well The layout is The layout is The layout is
organized. organized. somewhat organized. confusing.
Punctuality Able to submit the task The brochure was The brochure was The brochure was
on or before the due submitted a day late to submitted2 days late to submitted5 days late to
time. its submission its submission its submission
2. How can you show your appreciation for the environment using your own made
brochures?
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3. How does the brochure you created help the campaign advocacy in the
environment?
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1. What are the problems that you encounter during the discussion? Any suggestions?
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2. What has particularly interested you in the module?
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3. Do you encounter any difficulties in reading the topics? In what particular topic?
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