Personhood and Values

3. WORDS TO PONDER
WHO AM I?
WHERE DO I CAME FROM?
WHERE DO I GO AFTER THIS LIFE?
DO I MAKE SENSE OF BEING
HUMAN? OR WHAT MAKES US
HUMAN?

4. ‘PERSONHOOD’

5. HUMAN PERSON
WHAT RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
COME WITH BEING A PERSON? IS
THERE A TIME WHEN SOMEONE IS NOT
CONSIDERED A PERSON? CAN OUR
PERSONHOOD BE LOST?

6. According to PLATO,
ARISTOTLE, and
DESCARTES
THE CONCEPT OF
HUMAN BEING

7. TWO ESSENTIALS ELEMENTS
THE BODY and
THE SOUL
THE CONCEPT OF
HUMAN BEING

8. The WORLD divide into TWO
DIVISIONS
1. THE WORLD OF IDEAS, and
2. THE WORLD OF SENSES

9. 1. THE WORLD OF IDEAS
Is the WORLD of PERFECTIONS
where TRUTHS reside.

10. 2. THE WORLD OF SENSES
Is the WORLD of NOT REAL BUT
MERE IMITATIONS OF THE REAL.

11. The SOUL is IMMORTAL while the
BODY is MORTAL.
So when we DIE our BODY will decay
but our SOUL will RETURN to the
WORLD OF IDEAS. Thus, a HUMAN
BEING is ESSENTIALLY his SOUL.

12. PLATO’S CONCEPT OF HUMAN
BEING IS THE SOUL’S DIVISION
INTO THREE PARTS:
1. APPETITES
2. SPIRITEDNESS
3. REASONING

13. 1. APPETITES
 IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO LIVE
IF WE RULED BY OUR APPETITE.
 WE WERE ENSLAVED OF ALL
FORMS OF APPETITE LIKE;
MONEY, POWER, FAME, SEX etc.

14. 2. SPIRITEDNESS
RULED BY FEELINGS and EMOTIONS
WILL BE NOT BE GOOD LIFE.
WE LOST CONTROL OUR FEELINGS
OVERRIDE OUR REASON.
 WE LET; ANGER, JEALOUS, HATRED,
PITY etc.

15. 3. REASONING
 AS THE RATIONAL PART KNOWS
WHAT IS GOOD, IT MUST BE ABLE TO
CONTROL AND DIRECT ITS APPETITIVE
AND SPIRITED PARTS.

16. STRUCTURE TO DETERMINE WHO WE ARE.
EXPRESS THE ORIGINAL MORAL SENSE
WHICH ENABLES MAN TO DISCERN BY
REASON THE GOOD AND THE EVIL, THE
TRUTH AND THE LIE .
NATURAL LAW

17. RATIONAL
FREEDOM
TWO FACULTIES OF
HUMAN BEING

18. Ability to THINK and LEARN!
BASED ON FACTS OR REASON
and NOT EMOTIONS or
FEELINGS.
RATIONAL

19. Ability to CHOOSE, CHANGE,
IMPROVE!
LIMITED!
FREEDOM

20. THEORY OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
CHARLES DARWIN
HUMAN BEINGS EVOLVED
FROM APES TO HUMAN.

21. The word "Man" is derived from Sankrit
word "MANAS" meaning "MIND".
Human body made up not only BODY also
MIND!
TEACHINGS OF BUDDHISM
RELIGION

22. Should channeled towards creating
a JUST, EQUITABLE and
PEACEFUL WORLD
HUMAN MIND

23. INSEPARABLE

24. THEORY OF CREATIONISM SCRIPTURAL TEXT
THAT GOD OUR ALMIGHTY FATHER CREATES
HUMAN.
HUMAN IS THE HIGHEST ABOVE ALL!
OUR RATIONALITY MAKES US SUPERIOR TO ALL
OTHERS BECAUSE IT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF
ACTIVITY AND NO OTHER BEING HAS IT.

25. PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL THEORIES,
SIGMUND FREUD
ID
SUPER-EGO
EGO

26. ID
Pleasure-seeker, bodily-needs, wants
and desires.
Contains libido which is the primary
source of instinctual force
Instant GRATIFICATION!

27. SUPER-EGO
Is the internalization of the rules and laws of our
parents and influence by society and religion.
It contradict to the ID.
Control sense of RIGHT and WRONG and GUILT.
Immature form of CONSCIENCE.

28. EGO
IS OFTEN USED IN A NEGATIVE WAY, BUT THE
MEANING IS NOT HERE.
IS THE SELF AND THE SELF DECIDES WHAT IS
VALUABLE AND WORTHWHILE AND WHAT IS
NOT.
MATURED FORM OF CONSCIENCE.

29. GIFT OF CHOOSING

30. GENESIS 1: 26-28
IMAGE & LIKENESS OF GOD IN OUR LIVES
DIGNITY,
SPIRIT,
INTELLECT and
FREEDOM
GOD gives us ALL WILL
to RESPOND to personal
needs and the needs of
OTHERS around us.

31. LIFE IS A
CHOICE.
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