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.