UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST

CALOOCAN CAMPUS
BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
PHILOSOPHY, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (PHUMSS) STRAND

Grade: 11 & 12
Subject Title: Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person
No. of hours/semester: 80 hours/ 1st semester

Course Description: An initiation to the activity and process of philosophical reflection as a search for a synoptic vision
of life. Topics to be discussed include the human experiences of embodiment, being in the world with others and the
environment, freedom, inter-subjectivity, sociality, being unto death.
Week Target Date Topic
Number

1 June 24-28 1. What is Philosophy?

a. Some Common Meanings
b. Philosophy a “Love of Wisdom”
c. Philosophy as a question
(p.9-19)
2 July 1-5 2. The five general types of philosophy
a. The Thematic Types
b. The Positional Types
c. The Methodological Types
d. The Regional Types
e. The Historical Types
2.1 The major branches of philosophy
a. Metaphysics
b. Epistemology
c. Logic
d. Ethics
e. Aesthetics
(p.24-31)
3&4 July 8-12 3. Brief history of philosophy
a. Western Philosophy
&  Ancient Greek philosophers
 The great triumvirate of Greek Philosophy
July 15-19  Socrates
 Plato
 Aristotle
b. Eastern Philosophy
c. Schools of Thoughts
d. Medieval Period of Philosophy
e. Contemporary Period
f. Summary view on man and society
(Additional References Needed)
5 July 22-26 4. The importance of philosophy
a. The charge of futility
b. Major achievements of Philosophy
(p.35-43)
6 July 29- Aug 2 5. The Methods of Philosophy
a. Philosophy as speculation/speculative Thinking
b. Philosophy as Critical Thinking Analysis
c. Philosophy as Reflective Inquiry
(Additional References Needed)
7-8 August 5-9 6. Knowing the Truth
a. The nature of belief
b. The bearers of Truth
c. Kinds of Truth
 Empirical Truth
 Synthetic and analytic truth
 Private and Public Truth
 Subjective Truth
 Universal and Relative Truth
 Deductive Truth
 Disciplinal kinds of Truth
(p.49-55)
9 August 12-13 REVIEW AND LONG EXAM DAY (Tentative)

9 August 14-16 PRELIM (Tentative)

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CALOOCAN CAMPUS
BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
PHILOSOPHY, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (PHUMSS) STRAND

10 August 19-23 6.1 Ways of knowing Truth and Knowledge

a. The correspondence theory of truth
b. The coherence theory of truth
c. The pragmatic theory of truth
d. Condition of knowledge
(p.60-67)
7. Reasoning and Fallacies
a. Types of reasoning
b. The Common Types of Fallacies
(p.73-80)

11 August 26-30 7. The Nature of Human Person

a. An Embodied Spirit
b. Who is a Human Person?
c. Transcendence and limitations
(p.88-108)
12 September 2-6 8. The Human Person and his environment
Promoting environmental protection
a. Deep Ecology & Bio Centric Equality
b. Respect for nature
c. Role of Business
d. Sustainable Development Goals
(p.223-231)
(Additional References Needed)
13 September 9-13 9. Understanding the Human Freedom
a. Natural and social freedom
b. Mind Body Relation
 Interactionism
 No-Mind View
 No-Causation View
 No-Freedom View
(p.115-123)
14 September 16-20 10. Inter-subjectivity (Being with Others)
a. Examining Intersubjectivity
b. Persons and Rights
c. Promoting Human Welfare
d. Responsibility for the other
e. Love as Commitment
(p. 149-173)
15 September 23-27 11. The Human Person in Society
a. Kinds of Society
b. State, Society, Government and Nation
(p. 181-190)
16 September 30- 12. What is Life’s meaning?
Oct 4 a. Sources of Life’s Meaning
b. The Authentic Life
(p.249-259)
(Additional References Needed)
17 October 7-11 13. Human persons as oriented towards their
impending death
a. Death as an event
b. Death as possibility
(239-245)
18 October 14-15 PERFORMANCE TASK (Tentative)

20 October 16-18 Final (Tentative)

Note:
1. The page numbers are based in the book Making Life Worth Living: An introduction to the Philosophy of the Human
Person by Napoleon M. Mabaquiao.
Reference Books:
1. Introduction to the Philosophy of Human Person by Christopher Ryan Maboloc, Ph. D.
2. Making Life Worth Living: An introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person by Napoleon M. Mabaquiao.
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 UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST
CALOOCAN CAMPUS
BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
PHILOSOPHY, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (PHUMSS) STRAND

Prepared by:

MR. ARVIE C. ALONZO

Subject lead HPH 121

Noted by:

MR. JOSELITO R. DEPANES

Coordinator, PHUMSS Strand