Oneself National Service Training Program Civic Welfare Training Service S.Y. 2020 – 2021 First Semester Learning Objectives The CWTS students will: describe the nature of the human person identify the importance of a persons ability and capacity; and describe a persons unique qualities that make him/her a productive social being. HUMAN PERSON Estanol (2017) defines the human person as having physical, spiritual, emotional, and intellectual attributes.
St. Thomas Aquinas describe the human person as
having physical and spiritual substance because he/she has a soul and is created by a Superior Being with a divine purpose. CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN PERSON
1. Human person is a rational being. He/she to think
and has the capacity to reason and distinguish between right and wrong. 2. A human person is born free. He/she has the freedom to do or not do things. How ever every person is responsible for his/her own action. 3. A human person is unique. He/she possess an identify that makes him/her unlike any other person. CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN PERSON
4. Every person is intrinsically a social being and cannot
detach himself/herself from the creatures in the nature.
5. All living things are sexual by nature, but the
uniqueness of expression of a person’s sexuality makes him/her different. BIBLICAL VIEWS The human person has superiority and dignity inherited from the supreme being.
According to the book of genesis chapter 1, verses 25-27,
God created man and women in his own image and likeness and made them masters of the fish of the sea, the birds, the heaven, the earth, the wilds beasts, and all the reptiles that crawl upon the earth. BIBLICAL VIEWS Agbuya (1997) sates that “he/she (human person) is designed by God to exercise dominion over other creatures in his/her everyday use of freedom, search for happiness, and openness to the world around him/her.
What makes him/her human is his/her being a true person,
which includes the special gifts and talents of thinking, loving , longing for happiness and making decisions.
The human nature was patterned after the image of God”
PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS According to Protagoras, a human person is the measure of all things that exist and of all things that do not exist.
Plato claimed that the perfect human being does not exist in this world because what is in this world is just an imperfect copy of humanity’s original self in the realm of ideas.
Parmenides posited that a person has knowledge of
something that exist, for a person who does not exist is nothing. PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS Maguigad (2006) in his book Philosophy of the Human Being explains the different philosophical views of the human person.
Conservatism is the conservative view is not entirely
positive and definitely non-egalitarian.
Liberalism has a more egalitarian view of human nature.
PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS
Socialism is when the human being readily engages in
cooperative social activities when given the opportunity
Fascism holds that what matter is the country itself
CLASSICAL GREEK VIEW
The early classical Greeks define human
person as “a rational animal”.
An animals vegetative sensory and
rational element is integrated within his/hers being; thus he/she is a material (body) and spritual (soul) being. SOCIOLOGICAL VIEWS
Salcedo (2004) states that people
look at this social world or at the various ways that human beings behave in a social way. SOCIOLOGICAL VIEWS San Juan (2007) proposes some common ideas about the human person.
Human persons are social animals.
The human person’s social behavior is learned, not instinctive. To understand the human person’s social behavior, we have to focus our attention on the groups to which people belong. Sociology is a discipline that looks into the totality of relationship in an individuals life. HIERARCHY OF NEEDS Maslow presented the levels of hierarchy of need in his theory of personality.
Physiological Needs include the biological and
basic needs such as water and clothing. Safety Needs include security and protein from physical and emotional harm. Social Needs include affection, sense of belongingness, and friendship, which people seek to overcome feelings of loneliness and alienation. Self-esteem Needs include achievements and attention. Self actualization means a person has reached the peak of his/her potential. Abraham Maslow Hierarchy of Needs Nature of Human Person Nature of Human Person Knowing and Expressing Oneself
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