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CH 9 Man As A Person

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MAN AS

PERSON
MAN
the non-sufficient radical, neither absolute nor a deficiency
of the absolute

PERSON
is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as
reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and
being a part of a culturally established form of social relations
such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.
HE IS THE PRESUPPOSE DOER OF THE ACT

THE SUBJECT, THE ONE WHO MOTIVATES AND ACCOUNTABLE

TO THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE ACT

HE IS RATIONAL AND HE IS FREE

HE IS A PERSON
EVERYBODY IS PRESUMED TO KNOW WHAT MAN IS BUT

THE VARIED POLITICAL, SOCIAL, EDUCATONAL,

PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS IN THE

WORLD UNDERSCORE THE FACT THAT ANYBODY ELSE

HAS DIFFERENT VIEW OF MAN


CERTAIN PHILOSOPHIES OF MAN

• BUDDHISM
all men are subject to the same psychic laws
• JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN
man is the image of God
• TABULA RAZA
a concept suggest human nature to be a blank
sheet.
CERTAIN PHILOSOPHIES OF MAN

• KARL MARX
human nature is a given potential and a product of
history, becoming what he is potentially.

• EXISTENTIALISM
considers existence of man as an individual
endowed with free-will is the fundamental fact of
life.
MAN AS A RATIONAL ORGANISM

• man is an organism composed of body and soul

• man is the substantial union of body and soul


(hylomorphic)
• man is the wholeness of his materialityand spirituality
MAN AS PERSON

• man is born into this world as an individual


• person Greek “prosophon” means mask used by stage
actors. In Latin “personare” alludes to the mask which is so
constructed.
• a person therefore is an individual,existing separately and
independently from others...
MAN AS COSMIC PERFECTION

• he occupies the topmost rung in the ladder of corporeal


substances.
• he is the most perfect being composed of body and soul
• the microcosm of the whole universe.
PERSON, PERSONALITY, CHARACTER

PERSON

the complete substance, subsisting by itself,


separate from all else, and endowed with a
rational nature.
PERSON, PERSONALITY, CHARACTER

PERSONALITY

sum-total of those factors of physique and


constitution and those enduring, underlying
tendencies of a person which determines his
characteristic behavior
PERSON, PERSONALITY, CHARACTER

CHARACTERISTICS

person’s choice of values and to his intelligent


and free conversion of such values into practical
goals

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