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The human person is defined as an embodied spirit that transcends nature. Three Eastern philosophies discuss transcendence: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity. Hinduism believes in Brahman, the supreme spirit, and reincarnation driven by karma. Buddhism teaches the Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path to achieve nirvana and end suffering. Christianity holds that eternal life comes through accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior, as the Bible teaches. These traditions view limitations as opportunities for forgiveness, appreciation of nature's beauty, acceptance of failure and vulnerability, and the transcendence of love.

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The human person is defined as an embodied spirit that transcends nature. Three Eastern philosophies discuss transcendence: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity. Hinduism believes in Brahman, the supreme spirit, and reincarnation driven by karma. Buddhism teaches the Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path to achieve nirvana and end suffering. Christianity holds that eternal life comes through accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior, as the Bible teaches. These traditions view limitations as opportunities for forgiveness, appreciation of nature's beauty, acceptance of failure and vulnerability, and the transcendence of love.

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What makes a human person different from nature or other entities?

THE HUMAN PERSON AS AN EMBODIED SPIRIT

Philosophy define the Human Person


 Philosophers also think about upon the concept of the Human Person and what makes him or
her a different in nature and entity.
 “Human Person” refers to the individual, and all the attributes and characteristics that set him or
her apart from other beings.

Embodied Spirit
 Is the living, animating core within each of us, the driving force behind all that we think, say and
do.

Transcendence in Global Age(East)


TRANSCENDENCE
 An act of rising above something to a superior state
 Comes from the Latin prefix trans-, meaning “beyond”, and the word scandare, meaning to
climb.
 Though there are many aspects of transcendence, this lesson will cover three main spiritual
philosophies HINDUISM, BUDDHISM, and CHRISTIANITY.

HINDUISM
 Hinduism is one of the oldest Eastern traditions practiced by hundreds of millions of people for
about 5,000 years

AUM or OM
 It is the universal name of the lord
 This symbol is a sacred syllable representing Brahman, the impersonal Absolute of Hinduism—
omnipotent, omnipresent, and the source of all manifest existence.

BRAHMAN
 One supreme spirit, eternal and spiritual source o the universe
 Most Hindus believe that Brahman is present in every person. It has many forms, male o female,
or an animal.
 Brahman contains everything: creation and destruction, male and female, good and evil,
movement and stillness
 These are expressed in the trimurti and are:
1. Brahman CREATES
2. Vishnu PRESERVES
3. Shiva DESTROYS

HINDUISM
Human beings possess dual nature:
• The spiritual and immortal essence
• Empirical life and character

ATMAN
 Sanskrit word or soul
 The atman is eternal and independent o the body. as body dies, atman does not. Instead it is
placed into a new body that is ust being born. This is reincarnation.

SAMSARA
 The endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth.

KARMA
 It refers to intentional actions that affect one's fortunes in this life and the next.

MOKSHA
 The end of birth and rebirth cycle

NIRVANA
 The highest state that someone can attain, a state of enlightenment, meaning a person's
individual desires and suffering go away

UPANISHADS
 The Upanishads are a collection of texts that contain some of the central philosophical concepts
of Hinduism

BUDDHISM
 Is considered a religion and a path of spiritual development which is said to lead to an
understanding of the true nature of reality. Many people consider it to be a philosophy tradition
or a way of life 

SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA (BUDDHA)


 He turned away from Hinduism to seek for answers to the riddle of life's sufferings, disease, old
age, and death.

FOUR NOBE TRUTH

EIGHTFOLD PATH
BUDDHISM
 The way to salvation, lies through
1. self-abnegation,
2. rigid discipline of mind and body,
3.consuming of love for all creatures, and the final achievement of that
state of consciousness
 Those things mark an individual's preparation for entering the Nirvana (enlightened wisdom).
 The Buddhist practice four states of sublime condition:
(1)love, (2)sorrow of others, (3) joy in the joy of others and (4)equanimity as regards one's own
joy and sorrows.

EIGHTFOLD PATH
1. Right belief in and acceptance of the "Fourfold Truth";
2. Right aspiration for one's self and for others;
3. Right speech that harms no one;
4. Right conduct, motivated by goodwill toward all human beings;
5. Right means of livelihood, or earning one's living by honorable means;
6. Right endeavor, or effort to direct one's energies toward wise ends;
7. Right mindfulness in choosing topics for thought; and
8. Right meditation or concentration to the point of complete absorption in mystic ecstasy. States
of Sublime Condition

CHRISTIANITY
 this section looks at the reasonableness of belief in Gods existence.
 Religious people do not treat Gods existence as a hypothesis.
 The religious problem in the Old Testament narratives is not Atheism the denial of God but
Polytheism the worship of too many gods.
 In the new testament the reality of God is unquestioned because the Jesus of Nazareth the
eternal God became flesh and dwelt among human beings.
 Christians believe that there is an eternal life.

ETERNAL LIFE
 Eternal life is, in simple terms, a life that doesn’t end.  “Eternity” refers to the life – in heaven or
hell – after this present one on the created earth. 
 One has to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior to have an eternal life in heaven.

BIBLE
 The holy book of the Christian religion consisting of the Old and New Testaments

FOR AUGUSTINE(354-430 CE)


 Christianity as presenting the full revelation of the true God, is the only full and true philosophy
CHRISTIANITY
 Philosophy is "amor sapiential", the love of wisdom. Hence it is the love of God it is then religious
 All knowledge leads to God so that faith supplement and enlightens reason that may proceed to
ever richer and fuller understanding.
 "Human beings alone, without God, are bound to fail"

EVALUATE LIMITATIONS
1.FORGIVENESS- we are freed from our anger and bitterness.
2.THE BEAUTY OF NATURE- There's is perfection in every single flower; this what the three
philosophies believed.
3.VULNERABILITY- to be invulnerable is somehow inhuman. To be vulnerable is to be human.
4. FAILURE - it force us to confront our weaknesses and limitations. -such acceptance of our failures
makes us hope and trust that all can be brought into good.
5.LONELINESS- with our loneliness we can realize that our dependence on other people or gadgets is
possessiveness that we can be free from.
6.LOVE - to love is to experience richness, positivity, and transcendence. -Life is full of risks, fears and
commitment, pain and sacrificing and giving up things we want for the sake of the one we love.

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