Introduction To The Philosophy of The Human Person
Introduction To The Philosophy of The Human Person
Introduction To The Philosophy of The Human Person
MODULE NO. 1, 2, 3, 4
1ST QUARTER
S.Y. 2021-2022
CLARIZ PANSACALA
HUMSS 12
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. PHILOSOPHERS
Briefly discuss the famous ancient philosophers and their significant
contribution to philosophy
4 ancient philosophers (20 pts. each)
4 ancient Asian philosophers (20 pts. each)
4 modern philosophers (20 pts. each)
1 picture for each philosophers with their quoted philosophy (10 pts.
each)
Printed bond paper
Choose 1 philosophers and discuss your own point of view of his
philosophy.(handwritten in a separate bond paper and please be
content wise. Straight to the point with at least 50 words of your
precious ideas.) (40 pts)
II. HUMAN EXISTENCE
Answer the 4 basic question of human existence.(80 pts.)
(please write neatly and legibly. You can use any paper . be
creatice.)
Who are we?
Where did we came from?
Where are we going?
How should we live?
III. BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY
Give a brief definaion for each branch of philosophy. (50 pts)
Aesthetics
Espistemology
Ethics
Logic
Metaphysics
IV. REASONS TO PHILOSOPHIZE
Discuss the various reasons which drive man to philosophize.
(40 pts)
Wonder
Doubt
Experience
Wisdom
Essay: which reason you can relate to the most? How it
influences your thingking and the way you look at the world?
(handwritten) (30 pts)
V. PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION
Essay: think of an experience or decisions that made you
reflect in the past. What lesson did you learn from that
experience? Has reflection ever helped you in dealing with
that experience? (30 pts)
State a personal motto that you developed after that life event.
(20 pts)
VI. FACT vs. OPINION
1. Search for an article regarding the major issues in the
Philippines 2020-2021. Cuts outs from newspaper, magazines
or you can print a from the internet. Make sure to include the
author, name of newspaper/magazines date the article was
published and the link if it is from the internet. Give proper
credits.(50 pts)
2. Write your own opinion about the content of the article. State
if you agree or disagree. Decide if it is a fact or opinion.
(handwritten) (50 pts)
3. Define the following: 9120 pts)
Truth Fact Conclusion Explanation
Propositions Claim Belief Argument
Knowledge Opinion Doubt Consensus
4. A statement is true if … … … … … … -Complete the
sentence.(handwritten)-30 pts
VII. HUMAN COMPOSITION OF MAN
1. Define the following: (45 pts)
Self-awareness Consequence Externality
Self-determination Mortality Dignity
Free will Interiority Transcedence
2. Design a collage or poster with this content. (25 pts)
I am a person
I am alive
I exist
I am here. I am present
I am living at this moment.
VIII. CONCEPT OF TRANSCENDENCE
Complete the chart by writing your limitations. Make an action
plan towards transcendence. (60 pts) – can be printed or
handwritten
MY LIMITATIONS PLAN TOWARDS
TRANSCEDENCE
As a student
As a son/daughter
As a person
IX. ENVIRONTMENTALISM
1.Discuss some evidence that points human activities in
bringing about climate change. (give at least 3.) (5 pts.)
2.What is environment ethics? (5 pts)
3.What is sustainability and sustainable development? (5 pts.)
4.Discuss the 3 principles of sustainability. (15 pts)
Economic
Society
Environment
5.What is frugality? (5 pts)
6.What is prudence?(5 pts)
7.Explain how the values of frugality and prudence can aid in
helping address environment issues.(handwritten)-30 pts
8.Find a song about the environtment. (Example from the
module KAPALIGIRAN by Asin) (Can be printed or
handwritten)-20 pts I.PHILOSOPHERS
“ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS”
SOCRATES was born in Alopece and is credited with being one of the founders of
western philosophy and is the best known of the Ancient Greek philosophers. He was a master stonemason who
never actually wrote anything down but imparted his philosophical ideas to his students who included Plato.He
had a profound influence on philosophy and believed it could achieve practical results for the greater good of
society in everyday life. He firmly believed that human choice was motivated by the desire for happiness and
encouraged people to critically question everything.Socrates’ greatest contribution to philosophy was the
Socratic Method in which discussion, argument, and dialogue are used to discern the truth. Eventually, his
beliefs and realistic approach to philosophy led to his downfall.He was tried and convicted for criticizing
religion and corrupting the youth of Athens. Socrates chose to kill himself rather than be exiled from his
homeland. His trial and death at the altar of the ancient Greek democratic system has prompted a study of life
itself.
PLATO was born in Athens to an aristolic aand influential and family. During the classical
period and he was a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. He was he founder of the Platonist school of
thought and of the Academy- the first institution of higher learning in the world in Athens. He was the inventor
of written dialogue. He believed that soul had three functions – reason, emotion, and desire. Plato wrote one of
the first and most influential works in polotics, The Republic in which he described an ideal or utopian society
like his mentor Socrates, Plato was a strong critic of democracy.
ARISTOTLE was born is Stagira, Aristotle was taught by Pluto, He was the founder of
the Lyceum, Peripatetic School of Philosophy, and the Aristolelian Tradition, and is considered one of the
greatest ancient philosophers. He studied many subjects including science, government, physics, and polotics,
and wrote on all of them. He was the first to develop a formal logic. He also identified the deffirent scientific
disciplines and their relationship and interaction. Aristotle is arguably the best-known philosophers as his
quotations and writings have been passed down through generations. They continue to be the object of active
academic study today.
THALES OF MELITUS was a mathematician, astronomer, and philosopherfrom Miletus in lonia. Asia
Minor. He was one of the seven sages of Greece. He is best known as one of the fathers of greek philososphy and
famousfor predicting a solar eclipse and for predicting a solar eclipse and for devising five theorems in geometry
including –the fact that for a trangile to fit insidea semicircle, it must have a right angle. He tried to discover what
everything in nature is made from and decided the core substance must be water. Thales is also said to be the founder
of the school of nature philosophy.
“ASIAN PHILOSOPHERS”
CONFUCIUS was born in 551 BC in Zou, Lu State, in what is present day shandiong
province. His father died when he was three, and his mother and he were disowned his wives, so they left for
the prosperous city of Qufu. Confucius was a momma’s boy, and her death when he was 23 saw hhim mourn of
three years. Alone in the world, without money of family connections, all he had was his learning In a relm
ruled by brute force, where ruthless warlords seized land and enslaved the common people.his luck was in – one
such brute warlord recognizing the talents of his unsightly giant. Confucuis grew tired of the life though, and
dreamed of being a great minister.
SUN TZU is Gordon gekko’s bible in wall street, a james bond baddie uses it to take a
bullet and when Tony Soprano decleared it “much better about stategy” than machiavell’s. The prince, sales of
it skyrocketed. Written some 2,500 years ago. The art of war continues to influence eastern and western
thingking on military matters…and much more. Compiled during the late spring and autumn period (722 -481
BC) by Sun Wu – better known as Sun Tzu – a military general serving under king helu Wu (544 -496 BC), the
book us composed of 13 chapters each devoted to an aspect of warfare, from battlefield stratagem to the use of
spies. Rather than a saberrattling call to arms, however, sun considers war a necessary evil one that must be
avoided whenever possible.
LAO TZU is truly known about the chinese philosopher Lao Tzu (sometimes also known as
Laozi or Lao Tze), who is a guding figure in daosim (also translated as Taoism), a still popular spiritual
practice. He is said t hve been a record keeper in the court to he central chinese Zhou Dynasty in the 6th century
B.C ., and an older contemporary of Confucius. This could be true, but he may also have been entirely mythical
–much like homer in Western culture. It is certainly very unlikely that (as some legends say) he was conceived
when his mother saw a falling star, or was born an old man with very lonh earlobes –or lived 990years.
ZHUANGZI is the best known through the book that bears his name, the zhuangi, also
known as nanhua zhenjing (“The Pure Classic Of Nanhua”) at about the turn of the 4th cenccutry ce. Gou
Xiang, the first and perhaps the best commenttor on the zhuangzi, established the work as a primary source for
daoist thought.the zhuangzi is a compilation of his and others’ writings at the pinnacle of the philososphically
subtle classical period in china (5th -3rd century BC.). The period was marked bt humanist and naturalist
reflections on normativity shaped by the metaphor of a dao-a social or natural path.
“MODERN PHILOSOPHERS”
RENÉ DESCARTES, (born March 31, 1596, La Haye, Touraine, France– died February
11, 1650, Stockholm, Sweden), and French mathematican, scientist, and philosopher. Because he was one of
the first to abandon Scholastic Aristotelianism, because he formulated the first modern version of mind-body
dualism, from which stems the min-body problem, and because he promoted the development of new science
grounded in observation and experiment, he is generally regarded as the founder of modern philosophy.
IMMANUEL KANT Kant lived in the remote province where he was born for his entire life.
His father, a saddler, was, according to Kant, a descendant of a Scottish immigrant, although scholars have
found no basis for this claim; his mother was remarkable for her character and natural intelligence. Both parents
were devoted followers of the Pietist branch of the Lutheran church, which taught that religion belongs to the
inner life expressed in simplicity and obedience to moral law. The influence of their pastor made it possible for
Kant—the fourth of nine children but the eldest surviving child—to obtain an education.
JOHN LOCKE (born August 29, 1632, Wrington, Somerset, England –died October 28,
1704, High Laver, essex), English philosopher whose wroks lie at the foundation of modern philosophical
empirism and political liberalism. He was an inspirer of both the European enlightenment and the constitution
of the United States. His philosophical thiking was close to that of the founders of modern science, especially
Robert boyle, sir Isaac Newton, and other memebers of the Royal Society. His political was grounded in the
nation of a social contract between citizens and in the impoetance of toleration, especially in matters of religion.
Much of what he advocated in the realm of politics was accepted in England after the Glorious Revolution of
1688-89 and in the United States after the country’s declaration of independent in 1776.
DAVID HUME (born May 7 [April26, old Style], 1711, Edinburgh, Scotland –died August
25, 1776, Edinburgh), Scottish philosophers, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his
philosophical empiricism and skepticism. Hume conceived of philosophy as the inductive, experimental science
of human nature. Taking the scientific method ofv the English physicist Sir Isac Newton as his model and
building on the epistemology of the English philosopher Johm Locke. Hume tried to describe how the mind
works in acquiring what is called knowledge. He concluded that no theory or reality is possible; there can be no
knowledge of anything beyond experience. Despite the enduring impact of his theory of knowledge. Hume
seems to have considered himself chiefly as a moralist.
SOCRATES: You have to know yourself before you can say
something about yourself or about what you can know,’’
PLATO: We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the
dark; the real tragedy of his life is when men are afraid of
the light,’’
ARISTOTLE: The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure,
but to avoid pain.
THALES: The most difficult thing in life is to know
yourself.
CONFUCIUS: The man who says he can, and the man who
says he can not… are both correct.
SUN TZU: Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a
mistake.
LAO TZU: Love is a decision – not an emotion.
ZHUANGZI: Flow with whatever may happen and let your
mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are
doing. This is the ultimate.
RENÉ DESCARTES: It is not enough to have a good mind;
the main thing is to use it well.
IMMANUEL KANT: The business of philosophy is not give
rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common
reason.
JOHN LOCKE: No man’s knowledge here can go beyond
his experience.
DAVID HUME: Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your
philosophy. Be still a man.
Choose 1 philosophers and discuss your own point of view of
his philosophy. (Handwritten in a separate bond paper and
please be content wise. Straight to the point with at least 50
words your precious ideas.) (40 pts)
II. HUMAN EXISTENCE
CONCLUSION: A conclusion is the last part of something, its end or result. ...
The phrase in conclusion means "finally, to sum up," and is used to introduce some
final comments at the end of a speech or piece of writing.
DOUBT: Doubt is a mental state in which the mind remains suspended between
two or more contradictory propositions, unable to be certain of any of them. Doubt
on an emotional level is indecision between belief and disbelief.
FACT: A fact is an occurrence in the real world. The usual test for a statement of
fact is verifiability—that is whether it can be demonstrated to correspond to
experience. Standard reference works are often used to check facts.
FREE WILL: Free will is the capacity of agents to choose between different
possible courses of action unimpeded. Free will is closely linked to the concepts of
moral responsibility, praise, guilt, sin, and other judgements which apply only to
actions that are freely chosen.
DIGNITY: Dignity is the right of a person to be valued and respected for their
own sake, and to be treated ethically. It is of significance in morality, ethics, law
and politics as an extension of the Enlightenment-era concepts of inherent,
inalienable rights.
INTRODUCTION TO THE
PHILISOPHY OF THE
HUMAN PERSON
SUBMITTED TO:
MS.MARIFEL Z. MANRIQUEZ
SUBJECT TEACHER
“EARTH”
What up, world?
Am I white or black?
Ba-dum-da-dum-dum, ba-dum-da-di
And it covers up our human dick (Woo), eat a lot of tuna fish
Like, let's all just chill (Hey), respect what we built (Hey)
Fellas, don't you love the cum when you have sex? (Ayy)
Hum-dum-dum-dae-dum, hum-dum-dum-dae-dum
Amamos la tierra
我们爱地球
I mean, there's so many people out here who don't believe Global