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Purposes of A Reaction Paper - 20240419 - 214521 - 0000
Purposes of A Reaction Paper - 20240419 - 214521 - 0000
-kaya ng tao na malaman yung tama sa mali tas kayang panagutan or responsible sya sa nagawa nya.
(ability to discern right from wrong and to be held accountable for his/her own actions
only those with certain mental disability have little or no capacity to be moral agents
•The unity of spiritual and body elements(material) helps us to understand our complexity as human beings.
- that is why we are separated from other known species, because we have spirituality that portays moral dimension
-moral dimensions is concerned with the way in which an agent's aim in acting and what he/she sees as reasons for acting that way (yung
point/goal ng isang moral agent sa kanyang ginagawa at kung ano yung nakikita nyang dahilan para gawin yun)
-whether we choose to be good or evil in our perspective, any of it becomes our responsibility.
meaning a person can rise above its ordinary self or being to a highest self or being
-This is similar with the idea of St. Thomas that in the plan of God,
•If a person perseveringly lives in a righteous and virtuous life (pag nagpatuloy daw yung tao na mamuhay ng tama) it transcends his mortal
state of life to an immortal state of life (buhay na walang hanggan daw, sa langit HAHAH)
-But, the power to change or to transcend cannot be done alone, we need God through cooperation to achieve this, meaning it is a union of
NATURAL LAW
• The first principle and percept of this (the natural law) is the instruct of self-preservation
- that good is to be sought after (to look for) and evil avoided, to protect yourself
HUMAN LAW
• It is the man-made law, and we have laws that should be obeyed voluntarily for order and peace
• Since the law looks at the common good as its end, ai is then conceived primarily with external acts and not with interior disposition
-kumabaga po, natatake advantage nila yung human law sa pagpapakita ng mabuting gawain tas meron palas ilang dalawang motive para dun,
or may dalawa silang dahilan sa gagawin nila kasi sa kabutihang panlahat(common good) lang parang concern yung human law
ex. yung ginagawa ng mga government officials, pinapakita nila lahat ng mabubuting ginawa or serbisyo or programa na pinatupad sa lahat ng
social medias, hindi lang pala para makatulong sa mamamayan, para din sila yung iboto ba.
•For Aquinas, natural and human laws are concerned with its end determined simply by humanity's nature.
- parehas daw na sa resulta lang nakatuon yung natural and human laws, na nadedetermined sa nature ng tao
• The law that human beings should be followed in transcending his nature
-Since a human being is ordained to an end transcending his nature (dahil daw ayun nga yung destiny natin), it is necessary that he has a law
- and these laws believed to come directly from God (such as the will of God)
-Divine law
- old(Mosaic)
- new(Christian)
they are related as the immature and imperfect (they relate it to a child) to the perfect and complete (adult)
-but now, we have passed beyond philosophy. And since it relies on reason and experience;
It examines the human experience of faith, and how different people and cultures show/express it.
-now,
ETERNAL LAW
• Eternal law is the decree of God that governs all creation. It is, "That law which is the Supreme Reason cannot be understood to be
-Supreme Reason is what rules and guides individuals, and all things to their proper end.
• Natural law is the human "participation" in the eternal law and is discovered by reason. It is based on "first principles"
-For Aristotle, human beings have to develop to the full of their powers - (in) rational, moral, social, emotional, and physical here on earth, ut
• For Aquinas, the purpose of -human being points to the perfect happiness that everyone seeks but could only found in God alone.
-and ditu napo ata pumapasok yung mga ways ng pag worship sa kanya in Christianity (pagsasamba)
• St. Thomas wisely and aptly chose and proposed love rather than law to bring about the transformation of humanity
-Because love is in consonance (it correspondence) with humanity's free nature, and law commands and complete
• Thomas emphasizes the freedom of humanity but chooses love in governing humanity's life
- Since God is Love, then it is the guiding principle of humanity toward its ultimate destiny
- Existentialism is a philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible
agent that determinines their own development through acts of the will. (it can turn out good or bad but either of it will define you) up to
you;v
• For Sartre, the human person is the desire to be God: the desire to exist as a being which has its sufficient ground in itself (en sui causa)
- meaning being one's own cause (a being that owes its existence to no other than God)
• The human person builds the road to the destiny of his/her choosing; he/she is the creator (Srathern 1998).
- They are the only one that can change the directions of their own life
-nagiging definition natin yung kung anu nagagawa natin ng tayo lang
-It says, the person first exists, encounters himself and surges up in the world then defines himself afterward.
-So, as time passes and you're getting older, the more you learn, understand, and do things to/for yourself that makes you, you
• The person is provided with a supreme opportunity to give meaning to one's life.
and In the course of giving meaning to one's life, one fills the world with meaning
-We all have the opportunities to express ourselves, give meaning and know your goal through your lifetime
-we all contribute something to someone, memories, teachings, feelings and more, that could help them gain knowledge and experiences
• Freedom therefore,the very core and door(the way) for authentic existence.
• (Now) Authentic existence (the fulfilled life) is realized only in deeds that are committed alone.
-kapag nasatisfied tayu sa mag isa nating ginawa o nagawa, and magagawa o nagagawa natin yun dahil sa freedom.
Human beings who tried to escape one's obligations and strives to be excused (like yung mga nagsasabing ganto ako pinanganak, "i was
born that way" is acting on bad faith (they intent to deceive) (mauvais foi)- a philosophy in existentialism
-because nobody will ever take the blame or responsibility of you other than yourself, it will still be up to you if you want to be affected by
- That is no longer the concern of people who have the power to influence and coerce(force) desires, beliefs, and decisions.
F. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
- he is one of the most famous influential philosophers of the french enlightenment in the 18th century
• In his book, The social Contract, he elaborated his theory of human nature.
- He elaborated his theory of human nature in one of his books, The Social Contract
- a hypertrophy of sentiments (the view or an opinion) that makes the whole spiritual life of a person be based on emotions and sensations
• According to Hobbes and Rousseau, the state owes its origin to a social contract freely entered into by its members.
-Both of them differed in their interpretations, for Hobbes developed his idea in favor of absolute monarchy and Rousseau interpreted the
that is Human beings have to form a community or civil community to protect themselves from one another.
-Saying the nature of human beings is to wage war against one another, they tend toward self-preservation, then it comes to, they should
• Hobbes thinks that humanity founded the state with its sovereign power of control by means of a mutual consent (agreement)
•(and) Roussueau believes that human being is born free and good
-he got chained up and has become "bad" due to the evil influence of society, civilization, learning, and progress, and from these come
return peace and bring his freedom back as he returned to his true self, whereby everyone grants his individual rights to the general will.
-The term "Social Contract" is a philosophical fiction (metaphor) and a certain way of looking at a society of collections of free wills of
agreeable individuals