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THE HUMAN PERSON

IN SOCIETY
WHAT IS SOCIETY? WHAT DRIVES HUMAN
BEINGS TO ESTABLISH SOCITIES?

• Society – Organized group of people whose


members interact frequently and have common
territory and culture. It also refers to
companionship or friendly association with
others, an alliance, community or a union.
WHAT ARE DIFFERENT FORMS OF SOCIETIES?

• Hunting and Gathering Society – recognized as the earliest and


simplest form of society
• Pastoral Society – Characterized by the domestication of animals
for food and a more stable and predictable food supply.
• Horticultural society – primarily engages in the small scale
cultivation of plants, fruits, and vegetables and domestication of
animals.
• Agrarian or agricultural society – further evolution of the
pastoral and horticultural societies. It involves the large scale and
WHAT ARE DIFFERENT FORMS OF SOCIETIES?

• Feudal Society – based on the ownership of the land. Feudal


societies arose out of the developments in Western Europe
during Medieval Times, when rival kingdoms were engagaed in
conflict over resources, particularly land.
• Industrial Society – based on the use of specialized machinery
in the production of goods and services.
• Post Industrial Society – Marked by establishment of societies
based on knowledge, information, and the sale of services.
• Virtual Society – where people organize themselves through
HOW DOES SOCIETY INFLUENCE OUR
DEVELOPMENT AS A PERSON?

•The person and the society


have a very dynamic
relationship in which one
cannot exist without the
HOW DOES SOCIETY INFLUENCE OUR
DEVELOPMENT AS A PERSON?

• Society influences our developmet as


persons in various ways. Society is the
backdrop by which we adopt the
prevailing culture, identity, values, ideas
and knowledge of the persons, groups,
and communities that surround us.
HOW DOES SOCIETY INFLUENCE OUR
DEVELOPMENT AS A PERSON?

• Society influences the interactions of its


members through the establishment of
NORMS, which are set of traits and
behavior that society considers
acceptable, and thus encouraged and
passed on to members.
HOW DOES SOCIETY INFLUENCE OUR
DEVELOPMENT AS A PERSON?

• Laws – more formal and stringent norms that


establish and define acceptable behavior of
citizens. They also prescribe the consequences or
penalties that will be imposed on violators.
• Folkways – less formal nomrs that arise from
tradition and do not result in punishment when
HOW DOES SOCIETY INFLUENCE OUR
DEVELOPMENT AS A PERSON?

• Social System – organized or patterned set of


relationships among individuals and groups that
composed a society.
• Social Role – assigned to each member, which are
actions and beahviours expected of a certain individual.
• Individual who share similar backgrounds or perform
HOW DOES SOCIETY INFLUENCE OUR
DEVELOPMENT AS A PERSON?

• Social Institutions perform vital functions in


society and theses include family, school,
government, and religion.
• Society transforms human relations, which
leads to the transformation of its members.
HOW DOES SOCIETY ENABLE ME TO BECOME A
BETTER PERSON?
• Society recognizes the capability of the person to develop, and
provides its members with opportunities to better themselves.
• Apart from choosing not to be fully defined by society, Person can
also undertake to contribute to society through decisions and actions.
• Social Movement – large scale action done by various group and
organizations in pursuit of a common goal to bring about change.
WRITTEN WORK 5

• 1. What is your role in your community?


• 2. How do you fulfill your role?
• 3. Why do you think you should contribute
to the progress of your community?
HUMAN PERSONS AS
ORIENTED TOWARDS
THEIR IMPENDING DEATH
QUOTES TO PONDER

“Nothing Lasts Forever.”


We are temporal beings or beings
oriented towards death.
HOW DOES THE REALITY OF DEATH DEFINES
OUR LIVES?

• Death is commonly understood as the end of bodily


functions which signals the end of a persons life. It also
refers to the separation of the body and spirit. As
mentioned earlier, the human is an embodied spirit .
The body being the material, is bound by the laws of
time and space and is subject to growth, death and
decay. The spirit being the immaterial, will continue to
HOW SHOULD I LIVE MY LIFE BEFORE IT
FINALLY ENDS?

• Understanding the person as a being –towards-death brings us back to a very


important topic: freedom.
• Self Determination – the essence of freedom, the capacity to choose and act for
oneself.
• Some philosophers view end as terminus, which means full stop or end of a line.
For them life ends and nothing follows. Others however , consider end as telos,
which means “Goal, Purpose, or Fulfilment”. Although we are oriented towards
our death, death is not the goal of life. The human person is not born into this
world just so he or she could die. Man is put on this earth to live a meaningful
llfe, to be virtuous and achieve excellence. With this in mind, we can look at two
WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?

• Noble Good-pursued for its own sake; it is good


in itself. Love and and friendship are some
examples.
• Useful good – considered good so long as it
serves as means to an end: its goodness is found
only from what it can provide.
• Pleasurable good – it is good as long as it
WHY DO WE SUFFER?

• Suffering takes place when we patiently endure unpleasantness,


discomfort and pain.
• It can be a form of:
• 1. Physical Suffering – we experience physical sensations such as
discomfort, hunger, distress and pain. Often caused by injury, disease and
lack of basic needs.
• 2. Mental Suffering – involves emotional and mental states such as
depression, anxiety, fear, loneliness and grief. May be caused by
unexpected situations in life such as sudden changes in lifestyle, loss of
HOW DO HAPPINESS, SUFFERING AND DEATH
GIVE MEANING TO YOUR LIFE?

• As we approach our death, we experience both


happiness and suffering. Although these are
distinct experiences, the two are not really meant
to be complete opposites, for there my be
instances when they enrich each one another. The
pursuit of happiness requires that we go through
the effort to achieve it. Our efforts are often
WRITTEN WORKS 6

•Write your own


philosophy in life.
PERFORMANCE TASK 4

• 1. Movie review. Watch the movie Coco,


summarize and note the similarities in the
Philippine settings on how we celebrate death
and life after death. Only one page summary.

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