HUMAN PERSON IN SOCIETY & HUMAN PERSON ARE

ORIENTED TOWARD THEIR IMPENDING DEATH

INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSONPREPARED BY PROF. GUILLERMO NIKUS A. TELAN

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Forms of Societies1. 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 Societies2. 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 Societies2. 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 Societies3. 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 Societies3. GLOBALIZATION & TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS

Modern technology has sacrificed humanity & world together

leading to their destructionScience & Technology is not a single phenomenon. On

theOther hand they have become ideology

Martin Heidegger

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"

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 impliedquestion( fills the void ignorance w/ info)

b. Socratic Method (tutorial) – to assess by question & to set him problems (reduce, criticize the solutions)

Ironic process & maieutic process

SOCRATESHappiness

Virtuous lifeEducationMind/heart

Self knowledge

PLATOContemplation

Is very important in life of humanity because this is only available means for man to be free of his spaceconfinement- truthDoing good in life

PLATO Is the source of endless trouble to us.

- Causes us turmoil & confusion of inquiries.

- To see the TRUTH we must quit the body

DEATH- PURE KNOWLEDGE

BODY

ARISTOTLERealizing 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 fearsDeath 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.