HUMAN PERSON AS

EMBODIED SPIRIT

PREPARED BY: SIR JOSHUA DAVID CRUZ

EMBODIED SPIRIT
� Embodied Spirit is the living animating
core within each of us, the driving force
behind all that we think, say and do.
Sometimes feelings, insights, and fancies
– all these are private and except
through symbols and at second hand,
incommunicable.
QUESTION

� “What happen to your

soul when you die?”
EMBODIED SPIRIT ACCORDING
TO PHILOSOPHERS
SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS

� human being is by nature a finite

embodied spirit, in search of the Infinite,
in social solidarity with fellow human
beings, historical journey through this
material cosmos towards its final trans-
worldly goal, a loving union with God as
the infinite of all goodness.
ARISTOTLE

� Human person is a personal being, possessing its

intellectual nature as joined in a natural unity body
with a material body. This unity is called “man” is
“a rational animal”.
� Human being is a biosocial being and represents
the highest level of development of all living
organisms on earth, the subject of labor, of the
social forms of life, communication and
consciousness.
SPIRIT AND SOUL
� Spirit consist of our mind, will and emotions. It is our
personality, thoughts, attitude and what makes us unique. It
is the immaterial part of a human being regarded as
immortal.

� Soul is the real person inside us, it is our life force, and it
gives life to the body. It has no feeling and cannot think.
The part of us that never dies, that is eternal, infinite and
limitless.
REMINDER:

� The soul is our will, mind and our

personality. It is what defines who we are.
�Spirit comes from God and He breathes
spirit unto us to have life.
 EXISTENTIALIST

� Human person must find the meaning of his existence. He must be conscious of his
distinctive existence so that he can strike a sense, purpose and direction in his existence.
Finding meaning to one’s existence is an important mission to very human person. This
means that he cannot forcibly impose and make his existence meaningful.

� Existentialist believes that society should not restrict an individual’s life or actions and
that these restrictions inhibit free will and the development of that person’s potential.
 EXISTENTIALIST

� Human person existence imposes limitations. These are the views of the
existentialist. The existentialist, such as Heidegger and Kierkegaard, stressed the
difference between existing and living. According to them, you must not
only live but also exist.

� Human person should exist so that he can stand out, emerge, engage and assert
himself in this current predicament, problems, and difficulties in life. He must soar up
to the limits of his capabilities in order to be something to achieve his possibilities.
HOW THE HUMAN PERSON BODY IMPOSES LIMITS
AND POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSCENDENSE?

� The Concept of Dread – This means that man is simply thrown into the world and is left alone to face what
he can do because he did not will for it. He is thrown in his life, his physical appearance, parents, cultures,
civilizations, among others. He must therefore starts from nothing in order to achieve something.
� The Concept of Being-Others-Related – His existence as a “Dasein” (man) is not an “alone existence
forever. He has to establish relationship with others in the world”. That does not mean that he has to depend
from others to realize his existence or resign his freedom and possibilities.
� The Concept of Concern - Human person’s relatedness to entities is basically things which he encounters in
the world. He never reveals himself in isolation. He is always “together with others”. Human existence is
always an existence of relationship.
HOW THE HUMAN PERSON BODY IMPOSES LIMITS
AND POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSCENDENSE?

� The Concept of Guilt-Feeling – Is something that is lacking or missing in a person. As such, the human
person is a guilty creature, as pointed by Heidegger. He has now will. His will is missing and this prevents
the person to decide for things. This makes the human person guilty of his existence.
� The Concept of Conscience - Man’s conscience plays a primary role in recovering from being “lost or
fallen” in the world. According to Babor (2001), conscience enables man to find himself again, because it
is a voice, a voice calling the Dasein (man) to own himself as a self who is fallen into everydayness.
� The Concept of Resoluteness – Resoluteness is man’s readiness to be called by conscience (Babor 2001). It
is resoluteness that the human person resolve to accept himself and make up his mind to exist in the way he
can call his own understand himself.
HOW THE HUMAN PERSON BODY IMPOSES LIMITS
AND POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSCENDENSE?

� The Concept of Temporality - Temporality imposes limits one’s human body. All human activities always
happen in time and through time. Human person projects his possibilities.

� The Concept of Death – The human person’s temporal existence will finds its end on death. He has to admit
that he is subject to death because death is the final direction of man’s existence. Death is present in all
human beings. It does not come only in old age, but intrinsically present in everyone. Because death is a
possibility, the human person has to anticipate it by accepting it as a dread.