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PERSON
A. Basic Anthropology
of MAN
1.MAN IS A PERSON
2. MAN IS A SUBSTANTIAL UNITY
3. MAN IS A SOCIAL BEING
4. MAN POSSESSES DIGNITY AND RIGHTS
A. BASIC ANTHROPOLOGY
MAJOR THEMES
1. MAN IS A PERSON
RATIONAL
FREEDOM NATURE /
TO SELF- INTELLIGENCE
GOVERN IN TO
THE UNDERSTAND
WORLD THE WORLD
ACCORDING TO ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
THE HUMAN PERSON IS THE MOST PERFECT IN
THE WHOLE NATURE
What makes HP
the MOST
PERFECT?
MARTIN BUBER
E. MOUNIER
E. LEVINAS
The human being is created
in God’s image and likeness.
The Human Person:
An Embodied Spirit
Original sin is real and is
the source of sinfulness
found in human experience.
Jesus Christ redeemed the
human race: Life of Grace
in Christ
Then God said: “Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish
of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all
the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the
ground.
God created man in his image, in the divine image he
created him; male and female he created them.
God blessed them, saying, “Be fertile and multiply,
fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the
fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things
that move on the earth.”
1. Capacity to know and love back: Of all the visible
creatures only man is “able to know and love his
creator.”
2. Important in himself/ herself: He is “the only creature
on earth that God has willed for its own sake,”
3. Sharer in God’s own life: And he alone is called to
share, by knowledge and love, in God’s own life.
Man, though made of body and soul, is a unity.
(GS 14 )
◦ Man as Body: the physical
aspect
of the human person