The document discusses the concept of personhood and how it is viewed differently in western and Filipino contexts. In the west, personhood is seen as an independent development over time influenced by one's environment and culture. In the Filipino view, personhood refers to a person's inner qualities and characteristics that make them unique individuals, despite humans ultimately having a shared inner unity. The document examines the controversial topic of what constitutes a person from these different perspectives.
The document discusses the concept of personhood and how it is viewed differently in western and Filipino contexts. In the west, personhood is seen as an independent development over time influenced by one's environment and culture. In the Filipino view, personhood refers to a person's inner qualities and characteristics that make them unique individuals, despite humans ultimately having a shared inner unity. The document examines the controversial topic of what constitutes a person from these different perspectives.
The document discusses the concept of personhood and how it is viewed differently in western and Filipino contexts. In the west, personhood is seen as an independent development over time influenced by one's environment and culture. In the Filipino view, personhood refers to a person's inner qualities and characteristics that make them unique individuals, despite humans ultimately having a shared inner unity. The document examines the controversial topic of what constitutes a person from these different perspectives.
The word personhood is controversial in every topic or every
study criterion. The main idea of personhood is all about the status of being the person or in Tagalog is pagkatao. In every aspect of the topic, they have different allegations and opinions about this topic. The difference between the two based on the topic of personhood is western idea was more about independent development over time and they are influenced by religious tradition or culture which means the self is more developed until learn to absorb the environment of one specific place. While the concept of Filipino personhood idea was about being an inner persona or the person, the specific idea for this is that personhood is known as the concept of distinctions and characteristics of one person to another. Filipino notation of personhood is being unique and different from one another. Even if they have differences the main concept of the two ideas is being self as individual, people as uniqueness and differences but in the inner, us has unity and peace as a human.