INTRODUCTION TO

PHILOSOPHY OF
THE HUMAN
PERSON
Mr. Angelo B. De Guzman
 The beauty of the
Creation and the
changes took place in
the course of progress.
ORGANIZE
D,
BEAUTIFUL
AND
ARTISTIC
 What do you observe
on the process of
arranging the things in
our activity?
UNLOCKIN
G OF
DIFFICULTI
ES:
 Aesthetics of nature is a
sub-field of philosophical
ethics, and refers to the
study of nature from the
aesthetical perspective.
 In a Post-Modern approach,
when an individual engages in
aesthetically appreciating nature,
they give meaning to it and in
that meaning express and
develop themselves.
 ORIENTAL
(AND
WESTERN)
VIEWS ON MAN
AND NATURE
 The Human Person in their environment
• To understand deep ecology, we have to see this in
the context of Eastern Philosophy.

Oriental Thought
Oriental Thought sees
everything in a relationship
of unity in diversity
There is an inner harmony of
nature; everything has a particular
significance that contributes to
the binding unity; destroy this for
simply practical or functional
purpose is to disrupt this
harmonious relationship
It believes in the harmonious
relationship of the non-being
(concealed) and being
Non-being is nameless yet it is
present in all realities in nature
and in the universe
 The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu
states that:
“The Tao (Non-being) is
nameless because it is not a
concrete, individual thing or
describable in particular terms.
Above all, it is non-being.
All things in the world
come from being, and
being comes from non-
being.”
 Wu wei means – in
Chinese – non-doing or
'doing nothing'. It sounds
like a pleasant invitation to
relax or worse, fall into
laziness or apathy.
Yet this concept is key to the
noblest kind of action
according to the philosophy
of Daoism – and is at the
heart of what it means to
follow Dao or The Way.
 Pantheism is a
metaphysical and
religious position.
Broadly defined it is
the view that….
 "God is everything and
everything is God ... the
world is either identical
with God or in some way
a self-expression of his
nature"
 Students will list down 5
activities that they can do to
their environment today and
compare it to older
environment they had.
 If you were asked to be a
community leader, what
specific programs or projects
that you would implement to
nourish and preserve?
 There have been significant
changes in our society/
environment. Most of these
changes affected the very first
picture of beautiful creation.
 From then on, there have
been polarities of views on
what is beautiful
(in terms of the
environment/Nature.