HUMAN PERSON IN SOCIETY &

HUMAN PERSON ARE

ORIENTED TOWARD THEIR
IMPENDING DEATH

INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

PREPARED BY PROF. GUILLERMO NIKUS A. TELAN
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Forms of Societies
1. Medieval Period (500-1500 CE)
- Feudalism- a way of life
- Church was the strongest single influence in Europe
Center is FAITH (St. Anselm : I do not seek insight of
Reason in order to believe. I believe in order to gain insight)
- FAITH & REASON
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Forms of Societies
2. Modern Period (1500-1800 CE)
- Modern Philosophy-attack on the rejection of Middle Age
- Protestant ethic & modern capitalism
- Experimentation, observation & application of Math & science
set the standards for philosophic inquiry.
- rationalism- view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge"
- naturalism- "idea or belief that only natural (as opposed to supernatural or spiritual)
laws and forces operate in the world."
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Forms of Societies
2. Modern Period (1500-1800 CE)
- Age of Empiricism-the view that the origin of all knowledge is sense
experience and sensory perception)

- Humanism- prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over

acceptance of dogma or superstition

Critical Idealism- humanity's nature is the real

creator of humanity's world
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Forms of Societies
3. GLOBALIZATION & TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS

-multilateral interactions among global system

- Introduction to invention- Industrial Revolution
- IR-changed people’s way of life
- AI-Artificial Intelligence-smarter than people
- The science & engineering of making intelligent machines
- Society is influenced by technology
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Forms of Societies
3. GLOBALIZATION & TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS

Modern technology has sacrificed humanity & world together

leading to their destruction

Science & Technology is not a single phenomenon. On the

Other hand they have become ideology
 Heidegger begins "The Question Concerning
Technology" by examining the relationship between
humans and technology, a relationship Heidegger calls a
"free relationship". If this relationship is free, it "opens
our human existence to the essence of technology". This
essence of technology, however, has nothing to do with
technology. Rather, as Heidegger suggests, "the essence
of a thing is considered to be what the thing is".

Heidegger examines two definitions of technology.

Firstly, he offers that "technology is a means to an end".
Secondly, he proposes that "technology is a human
activity"

Martin Heidegger
HUMAN PERSON ARE ORIENTED TOWARD THEIR
IMPENDING DEATH
HUMAN PERSON ARE ORIENTED
TOWARD THEIR IMPENDING
DEATH
 SOCRATES
-research & teaching (work of the school)
-2 different ways of teaching:
a. Expository method- answers the students direct or implied
question( fills the void ignorance w/ info)
b. Socratic Method (tutorial) – to assess by question & to set
him problems (reduce, criticize the solutions)
SOCRATES Happiness
PLATO Contemplation
Is very important in life of humanity because this is
only available means for man to be free of his space
confinement- truth
 Is the source of endless
PLATO trouble to us.

- Causes us turmoil &

confusion of inquiries.

- To see the TRUTH we

must quit the body

DEATH
- PURE KNOWLEDGE
ARISTOTLE Realizing Your Potential
 death involves reflection on its significance in one's life

thinking about the larger values that give life its meaning in the end

death only to the point that it frees us

death show us our living fears

Death and its concept are

absolutely empty. No picture comes
to mind.
The fear of death follows from the
fear of life. A man who lives fully is
prepared to die at any time.