THE HUMAN PERSON IN SOCIETY

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RECOGNIZE HOW INDIVIDUALS FORM SOCIETIES AND HOW
INDIVIDUALS ARE TRANSFORMED BY SOCIETIES

The information superhighway that we know

todays gives more focus on computer hardware,
software, and systems in terms of contribution to
society as the basic tools enabling fast and efficient
transfer of information. Before, personal computers
were mainly used for word processing. Nowadays,
the emergence of portable computers enables many
people to transact business anywhere.
RECOGNIZE HOW INDIVIDUALS FORM SOCIETIES AND HOW
INDIVIDUALS ARE TRANSFORMED BY SOCIETIES

Researchers suggested, however, that Facebook and

other social media might lead to depression. Most of
the time, we post smiling faces, favorite foods, and
perfect vacation. We look at idealized versions of our
online friends leaving us feeling less attractive and lss
secure about our own status. We tend to compare
how many “likes” our posts generated. Due to the
comparisons, we become more dissatisfied.
RECOGNIZE HOW INDIVIDUALS FORM SOCIETIES AND HOW
INDIVIDUALS ARE TRANSFORMED BY SOCIETIES

Due to the comparisons, we become more

dissatisfied. Therefore, studies indicate that our social
networking sites may disconnect users rather than
connect people.
RECOGNIZE HOW INDIVIDUALS FORM SOCIETIES AND HOW
INDIVIDUALS ARE TRANSFORMED BY SOCIETIES

If Soren Keikegaard is correct, rather than being

ourselves, we tend to conform to an image or idea
associated with being a certain type of person. E.g. if
we create the people we want to be or the ideal
version of ourselves in our Facebook profiles, then we
conform to a pattern.
RECOGNIZE HOW INDIVIDUALS FORM SOCIETIES AND HOW
INDIVIDUALS ARE TRANSFORMED BY SOCIETIES

Our modern age remains an era of increasing

dullness, conformity, and lack of genuine.
-Soren Keikegaard
RECOGNIZE HOW INDIVIDUALS FORM SOCIETIES AND HOW
INDIVIDUALS ARE TRANSFORMED BY SOCIETIES

Life was much simpler before. One begins to comprehend

how technology evolved. From medieval crafts to
industrial Revolution that was dominated by factors such
as revolutionary discoveries in natural resources,
detection, and extraction of energy resources, invention of
mechanical devices, availability of investment capital,
improved means of transportation, communication, and
growing interest taken by scientific and commercial circles
of technology and engineering.
RECOGNIZE HOW INDIVIDUALS FORM SOCIETIES AND HOW
INDIVIDUALS ARE TRANSFORMED BY SOCIETIES

Philosophically, our totality, wholeness, or “complete

life,” relies on our social relations. Aristotle said that
friends are two bodies with one soul. Mutual sharing,
acceptance, and sincerity.
RECOGNIZE HOW INDIVIDUALS FORM SOCIETIES AND HOW
INDIVIDUALS ARE TRANSFORMED BY SOCIETIES

For Buber, the human person attains fulfillment in the

realm of the interpersonal, in meeting the other,
through a genuine dialog. For Wojtyla, through
participation, we share in the humanness of others.
Aristotle, Buber, and Wojtyla stress that the
concreteness of our experiences and existence is
directly linked to our experience with others.
COMPARE DIFFERENT FORMS OF SOCIETIES AND
INDIVIDUALITIES
MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1500 CE)

Some historians say that the middle ages began in

AD 476 when the barbarian Odoacer overthrew
Emperor Romulus Augustulus, ending the Western
Roman Empire; still others say about AD 500 or even
later. Historian s say that the middle ages ended with
the fall of Constantinople.
MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1500 CE)

The invaders, however, lacked the knowledge and

skills to carry on Roman achievements in art,
literature, and engineering. In effect, highly
developed systems of Roman law and government
gave way to the rude forms of the barbarians. Thus,
the early Medieval Period is sometimes referred to as
the Dark Ages.
MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1500 CE)

In the reign of Clovis, Christianity began to life

Europe from the Dark Ages. Many barbarians had
become Christians earlier though mostly hold the
Arian belief, a doctrine that holds the conviction that
the Son of God is finite and created b God the Father
and, thus, condemned as heresy by the church.
MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1500 CE)

Arian – of or relating to Arius or his doctrines

especially that the Son is not of the same substance
as the Father but was created as an agent for creating
the world.
MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1500 CE)

Christianity`s influence widened when the great

Charlemagne became king of the Franks who
founded schools in monasteries and churches for
both the poor and nobility (the group of people who
are members of the highest social class in some
countries)
MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1500 CE)

The way of life in the Middle Ages is called feudalism,

which comes from medieval Latin feudum, meaning
property or possession. Peasants, about nine-tenths
of them, are farmers or village laborers. All peasants
– men, women and children worked to support their
lord. Many peasants built their villages of huts near
the castles of their lords for protection in exchange of
their services.
MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1500 CE)

Besides labor, peasants had to pay taxes to their lord,

in money or produce. In addition, they had to give
the tithe to the church for instance, every tenth egg,
wheat. Etc. famines were frequent. Plagues cut down
the livestock. Floods, frosts and droughts destroyed
the crops.
MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1500 CE)

However, with the growth of commerce and towns,

feudalism as a system of government began to pass.
As changes in business, government, and social
customs steadily shaped a new life in Europe, rising
interest in artistic and intellectual achievements
reached a peak in the Renaissance – a revival of
classical learning.
MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1500 CE)

The Middle Ages employed pedagogical methods

that caused the intercommunication between the
various intellectual centers and the unity of scientific
language. In all schools, philosophy was taught in the
Latin language. Philosophical works were written in
Latin.
MODERN PERIOD (1500-1800)

The modern period is generally said to begin around

1500. less than a decade the arbitrary date
Christopher Columbus had landed his ships in the
new world, altering not only the geography but the
politics of the world forever.
MODERN PERIOD (1500-1800)

Only a decade after, Martin Luther would tack 95

theses to the door of the church at Wittenberg and
initiate the reformation, which would case several
centuries of upheaval in Europe, change the nature of
Christian religion, and eventually change conceptions
of human nature.
HUMAN BEING IS THE MOST INTERESTING IN
NATURE DURING THE MODERN PERIOD
Leadership in art and literature reached peak in the
Renaissance period. The result is the revival of
ancient philosophy and European philosophers
turning from supernatural to natural or rational
explanations of the world.
Experimentation, observation and application of
mathematics in the natural sciences set standards for
philosophic inquiry. Discoveries of Copernicus,
Galileo, Kepler and Newton influenced the thinking of
philosophers.
Nonetheless, we should not overemphasize the
triumphs of modern science in the history of modern
philosophy.
GLOBALIZATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL
INNOVATIONS
Globalization is not a one-way process, but comprises
the multilateral interactions among global systems,
local practices, transnational trends, and personal
lifestyles.
The process of globalization however, had already
begun long before the 21st century. Globalization, in
the sense of adoption and acceptance of some
standards in the various aspects of life.
The introduction of new inventions in science
eventually led to the industrial revolution in the
eighteenth century, and since then western society
has taken off on a journey through the endless world
of science to bring society into the developed
conditions that can be today.
The industrial revolution is a movement in which
machines changed people`s way of life as well as
their methods of manufacture.
Significant changes that brought about the industrial
revolution were (Germain 2000)
The invention of machines in lieu of doing the work
of hand tools;
The use of steam and other kinds of power, the
muscles of human and animals;
The embracing of factory system.
As technology advanced, more and more automatic
machines were invented to handle the jobs with
supervision by human beings.
Everywhere, the computer is assuming an increasingly
central place in scientific research and data
processing is becoming all important. The Google`s
current mission is to fulfill a search engine that is
Artificial intelligence complete or one that is smarter
than people.
AI – is a branch of computer science or the study and
design of intelligent agents where an intelligent
agent is a system that perceives its environment and
takes acions that maximize its chances of success.
Messages and data can travel in a big office through
the use of local and wide area network. The
emergence of notebooks or portable computers
enables business and learning to occur in an airplane
or anywhere.
Nonetheless, we should not overemphasize the
triumphs of modern science in the history of modern
philosophy.
As technology is exploited, it becomes easier for
those already wealthy to maintain their advantage.
EXPLAIN HOW HUMAN RELATIONS ARE
TRANSFORMED BY SOCIAL SYSTEMS
As industry changed social and political conditions
transformed. European farmers and artisans flocked
to the manufacturing centers and become industrial
workers. Cities grew quickly as the percentage of
farmers in the population declined.
NEW KNOWLEDGE

“know thyself” is the main idea of Socrates of good

living. Socrates lived around 469 BC in Greece. His
saying “knowledge is virtue; ignorance is vice” is a
summation of what he wants to teach about how
human beings should live a good life. Ignorance, as
opposite of knowledge, is the source of evil.
Humanity commits evil because people do not know
any better.
NEW KNOWLEDGE

Humanity has met with increasing success in

understanding the secrets of nature and applying this
new knowledge to human affairs.
POLICY MAKING

At present one of the most important consequences

of the application of this new knowledge to human
affairs has been increased integration of policy
making. In the private realm, system of
transportation, communication, business, and
education have tended to become larger and more
centralized.
POLICY MAKING

Most communication at the national level have

become unified, and many are now organized on a
worldwide basis. In the public realm, governments
have increasingly tended to accumulate functions
formerly performed by the province, district, tribe or
family.
POLICY MAKING

As life has become more complex, the legal system

has also grown to the point where almost all human
activities come in contact with the law in one form or
another. This integration of policy making has
brought people within states into an
unprecedentedly closer relationship and has resulted
in a greater complexity of social organization.
ECONOMIC SPHERE

The effects of new knowledge have been partially

noticeable in the economic sphere. Technical
improvements have made possible a mechanization
of labor that has resulted in mass production,
ECONOMIC SPHERE

A greater quantity of goods has been produced

during the past century in the entire preceding
period of human history.
SOCIAL REALM

Equally important are the changes that have taken

place in the social realm. Traditional societies are
typically closed and rigid in their structure. The
members of such societies are primarily peasants
living in relatively isolated villages, poor and illiterate
and having little contact with the central political
authorities.
SOCIAL REALM

The way of life of peasants may remain virtually

unchanged for centuries. Modern knowledge and the
technology it has created have had an immense
impact on this traditional way of life.
SOCIAL REALM

In a modern society, 2/3 or more of the population

lives in cities, and literacy is virtually universal. Health
has also greatly improved.
SOCIAL REALM

This complex and interrelated series of changes in

humanity`s way of life is generally known as
Modernization.
SOCIAL REALM

Modernization has changed the power relationships

among societies by rapidly strengthening the
position of some at the expense of others.
SOCIAL REALM

At the same time, societies has become more

interdependent, and the conduct of their relations
has been transformed. While many of the traditional
forms of international relations have survived –
alliances and war, conquest and colonization, cultural
diffusion and propaganda.
SOCIAL REALM

Modernization is seen as part of the universal

experience, and in many respects, it is one that holds
great hope for the welfare of humanity. Yet, it has
also been in many respects a destructive process. It
has destroyed traditional patterns of life, which had
evolved through the centuries many humane values.
TECHNOLOGY

The more society is influenced by technology, the

more we need to consider the social, ethical, and
technological, and scientific aspects of each decision
and choice.
TECHNOLOGY

Science has greatly influenced the picture we have of

human existence and what is essential to humanity.
Therefore, the difficulty to the period of rapid change
challenges us to discover more about what is
fundamental to our existence.
TECHNOLOGY

In the present era, humanity does not live according

to the natural cycles regulated by natural rhythms
anymore (Germain 2000). Instead, it is governed by a
second nature that is an artificial environment
characterized by the results of technology.
TECHNOLOGY

Modern era is characterized by new inventions that

sometimes cannot be followed by most people,
because technology is not only the copy of the 1st
nature but a replacement of nature itself.
TECHNOLOGY

It has to be admitted, that in this century, human

success – whether personal or as species – is
measured by success in mastering science and
technology. Modern people also cannot isolate
themselves and live without technology.
ON (WOMEN`S) FRIENDSHIP

Women`s friendship has a unique quality that may

only exist between women. There`s sexual attraction
between a man and a woman (eros), which is another
completely different thing.
ON (WOMEN`S) FRIENDSHIP

According to Joy Carolin her book, The Fabric of

Friendship. Women`s friendships are special. girls`
and later women, can discuss with each other
anything or everything – whether dreams, fears,
children, boyfriends, or dying. There is a quality of
friendship between women offering sympathy,
learning, validations, and advices.
TRUE FRIENDS

True friendships allow each other to be completely

themselves. Acceptance and love give women the
courage to try new experience and stretch their
wings.
ON (WOMEN`S) FRIENDSHIP

Our female friends are extremely important to our

emotional and physical health. Carol cities that strong
female relationships lead to happiness and healthier
lives. People with less or no friends at all tend to
smoke, become overweight, and not exercise.
SUMMARY

Some commentators extol globalization as a

beneficial process, leading wealth. Others view it is
regretful, eroding national sovereignty, destroying
local culture, and marginalizing much of the world`s
population. (Golding & Reinert 2012)