HUMAN

WHAT IS A

PERSON?
WHAT IS A HUMAN PERSON?
1. Human person is just essentially just his/her body
and nothing more.
2. Human person is just essentially just his/her spirit
and nothing more.
3. Human person is just essentially the unity of
his/her body andspirit.
AN EMBODIED
 METAPHYSICAL EXISTENTIAL
APPROACH APPROACH
• Which focuses on the • Which focuses on the
kinds of substances or kind of life, or mode of
materials and capacities existence, that is unique
that uniquely make up a to humanperson.
human person.
 METAPHYSICAL EXISTENTIAL
APPROACH APPROACH
Dealing with the Dealing with the
WHAT WHO
of a humanperson. of a humanperson.
 IT IS MADE OF..?
ARE ITS COMPONENTS?DOES IT ONLY
WHAT MADE UP OF BODY?
ISA
HUMAN
PERSON
HUMAN
PERSON
HAVEASOUL
MIND Emphasizes its consciousness.

SPIRIT Emphasizes itslife

giving function.
WHAT ARE THE COMPONENTS OF A
HUMAN PERSON
THREE POSSIBLE ANSWER.

1.UNSPIRITED BODYVIEW
2.DISEMBODIED SPIRIT
VIEW
3.EMBODIED SPIRIT VIEW
1. UNSPIRITED BODY VIEW
- human person is just essentially just his/her body
and nothing more.
SUPPORTERS
MIND-BRAIN IDENTITY THEORY
- Mental state or neutral state of the brain.
2. DISEMBODIED SPIRIT VIEW
human person is just essentially just his/her spirit
and nothing more.
 PLATO RENE DESCARTES
• SOUL • MIND & MATTER

DUALISM
Physical & nonphysical

They both believed that:

• Spirit or soul is independent with the body.
• Immortality of the spirit
3. EMBODIED SPIRIT VIEW
human person is just essentially the unity of his/her
body and spirit.
 ARISTOTLE
SOULis the cause of life.
is aform
MIND is amatter

P ANT ANIMALS HUMANS

L S
Vegetative/Nutritive Soul Sensitive Soul Rational Soul
 THOMAS AQUINAS
Human soul
is
“subsistent”
rather than
“substance.”
 QUIZ
½ C RO S SW I SE
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I.
1-3. What are the components of human person?
4-5. What is the other term for soul?
6-8. According to Aristotle the plants, animals, and
humans has a soul called as….?
9.Human person is just essentially just his/her body
and nothing more. It is called _ ?
10.Human person is just essentially the unity of
his/her body and spirit. It is called ?
KEY ANSWERS
1. Unspirited body view , Disembodied spirit view or
Embodied spirit view
4-5. Mind / spirit
6-8. Vegetative/Nutritive Soul, Sensitive Soul &
Rational Soul
9. Unspirited body view
10. Embodied spirit view