SY 2020-2021

LEARNING AS ONE NATION

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Expanded Project Philo Q1_3

SHS LEARNING ACTIVITY

Name: Score/Mark:
Grade and Section: Date:
Strand:  STEM  ABM  HUMSS  ICT (TVL Track)
Subject: Philosophy of the Human Person
Type of Activity:  Concept Notes  Skills: Exercise/Drill  Illustration
 Performance Task  Essay/Report  Others:
Activity Title: Philosophical Approaches and Perspectives
Learning Target: Identify and evaluate some differing approaches and perspectives in the
philosophical study.
1. Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Man, Philosophy of Man -
References: Selected Readings, Manuel B. Dy, Jr. Third Edition, pp. 27-28.
(Author, Title, Pages) 2. The-Philosophy.com
3. J. L. Z. Carpio, CVIF Learning Activities

In my classification of my questions, I may have grouped some into

questions about the world or cosmos that I live in with all other organisms.
Others have done this too in history. Hence, Cosmology, a branch of
philosophy that primarily deals with the fundamental stuff of the universe.
The ancient period of philosophy was cosmocentric. Socrates viewed the human
being in the context of the proper order of the cosmos. His disciple, Plato,
looked at the human being from above in the significance of the world of ideas.
Aristotle, a student of Plato, viewed the human from below, as a rational animal.
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In the exercise of ideas and correct reasoning, thence came the discipline
in Logic, a branch of study useful in the discovery and explication of truth in
and of nature.
Then the medieval period came and philosophical pursuit centered on
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Theos or God, hence Theology. Thomas Aquinas Christianized Aristotle’s
definition of man as composite of body and soul created in the image and
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likeness of God. He propounded his five (5) ways of proving the existence of
God through the world and cosmos. A cosmological argument.
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The modern period became anthropocentric with René Descartes who

focused on the human as the thinking being. “Cogito ergo sum” (I think,
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therefore, I am). The contemporary period arose with Soren Kierkegaard

highlighting the individual who stands before the infinite God in fear and
trembling. In this period, philosophy became a more personal search for
meaning in life. Thus arose Existentialism.
Throughout these periods, questions on how to act or behave as a person
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in relation to others and the world permeated social thinking. Hence, we have
Ethics or Morality.
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Complicated study of the nature and scope of knowledge is sought in

Epistemology. It takes up truth, belief and justification.
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Deeper scrutiny of Being and Existence is explored in Metaphysics.

Now, which among these approaches or perspectives did most of my

questions deal with? ___________________________________.
Why? __________________________________________________________.
If none of my questions can be related to any of the areas presented, my
proposed area of philosophical study would be _______________.