1506, National Highway, Dila, City of Santa Rosa, Laguna

LEARNING MODULE

INTRODUCTION TO
PHILOSOPHY OF THE
HUMAN PERSON

Learning Module No. 7

 WEEK 7
TOPIC/LESSON NAME Human being as oriented towards their impending death.
The learner understands human being as oriented towards their
CONTENT STANDARD
impending death.
PERFORMANCE The learner writes a philosophical reflection on the meaning of his/her
STANDARDS own life.
LEARNING Enumerate the objectives he/she really wants to achieve and to define
COMPENTENCIES the projects he/she really wants to do in his/her life. (PPT11/12-Iih-8.1)
At the end of the lesson the students should be able to:
SPECIFIC LEARNING a. Reflect on the meaning of his/her own life
OUTCCOMES b. Enumerate the objectives he/she really wants to achieve and do
to his/her own life.
OUTLINE
1. INTRODUCTION
Certainty of an early death due to illness or fatal disability. The moral responsibility of knowing one's own
impending death is the duty of preparing oneself spiritually for entrance into eternity. On the part of the physician,
he or she is obliged in charity to warn the patient or near relatives of the danger of death, so that the dying person
may arrange his or her spiritual and temporal affairs. This duty would not be binding of the doctor could not give the
warning without grave inconvenience. With regard to newborn babies, the doctor should see to it that they are
baptized if they are in immediate danger of death, unless it is foreseen that such action would prove gravely
detrimental to the doctor or to the Church.
2. MOTIVATION

The teacher will post /flash this phrase “BUCKET LIST” and ask the students about their own bucket list.

Bucket list

- It refers to a list of things that one has not done before but wants to do before dying.

3.LESSON PROPER
The teacher will discuss the “Human being as oriented towards their impending death”.

Practice
For the student’s activities, they will do their own bucket list.
They will list down at-least five of their own goals in life and explain why they included that
in their bucket list. They will create a collage showcasing what they have listed.

4.EVALUATION

For the students’ assignment.

Explain the following:

1. For you what is the meaning of life?
2. How can I treasure life all the more knowing that I will someday die?
3. How can I treasure the people in my life more knowing that they will someday die?

REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READINGS

Introduction to Philosophy of the Human Person
By: Bernardo Tubo
PROFESSOR/TEACHER/INSTRUCTOR Mr. John Francis R. Intia, LPT

DEPARTMENT Humanities and Social Science

EDITED BY jcbatayon@gmail.com /
DEPARTMENT GENERAL ACADEMIC STRAND

LEARNING MODULE REVISION NUMBER 0

SEMESTER & YEAR 1st Sem 2021-2022

 1506, National Highway, Dila, City of Santa Rosa, Laguna

LEARNING MODULE

INTRODUCTION TO
PHILOSOPHY OF THE
HUMAN PERSON

Learning Module No. 7

 WEEK 7
LESSON PROPER
Human Person as oriented toward their impending death

Traditional definition
Death – Was simply equated to the stopping of heartbeat and breathing.

Legal definition
- Section 2, paragraph (j) of the organ donation act of 1991 (republic act 7170)
- Death – the irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or the irreversible
cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem. A person shall be
medically and legally dead if either.

What happens to the human person after death?

Reincarnation – It is the philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a
new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death.

“No man knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessing for human being:
and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that it is the greatest evil.” – SOCRATES

Socrates
Death is either:
- Possibility #1

- Possibility #2
Passage to another life
Therefore, either way, death is nothing to fear.

“ After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure” – Albus Dumbledore
(Harry Potter and the Socerer’s Stone)

But what if there is no afterlife?

“Wala na finish na” – Bethoven Delmar Jr.

Would you still fear?

Maybe we actually fear is the process of dying.

How does death feel?

Epicurus on death
- All sensation and consciousness ends with death.
- When a man dies, he does not feel the pain of death, because he no longer is and therefore feels
nothing.
- Fearing nonexistence gets in the way of enjoying life.

“Death… is nothing to us.” – EPICURUS

Or maybe what we actually fear is being deprived of possibilities.

“If death is an evil at all, it cannot be because of its positive features, but only because of what it
deprives us of.” Thomas Nagel

“None of us existed before we were born (or conceived), but few regard that as a misfortune.” -Thomas
Nagel

Nagel on death
- Fear of missing out.
- In conclusion, nagel thinks that the only real evil of death is dying prematurely. #regrets
“YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE, BUT IF YOU DO IT RIGHT, ONCE IS ENOUGH”

So, live life to the fullest.

While you still can.

PRACTICE: ACTIVITY

Directions: List down your own bucket list and explain why did you include that goal/s in your list,
and create a collage showcasing your bucket list, be creative upon presenting your list (List down at-
least five).

CRITERIA:
Creativity -10 pts
Accuracy -10 pts
Total -20 pts

EVALUATION
Assignment
Explain the following:
1. For you what is the meaning of life?
2. How can I treasure life all the more knowing that I will someday die?
3. How can I treasure the people in my life more knowing that they will someday die?

REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READINGS

Introduction to Philosophy of the human person
By: Bernardo Tubo

PREPARED BY Mr. John Francis R. Intia, LPT

EDITED BY Mr. John Carlo R. Batayon
CONTACT DETAILS jcbatayon@gmail.com

LEARNING MODULE REVISION NUMBER 0

SEMESTER & YEAR 1st Sem 2021-2022