Philosophy Portfolio
Philosophy Portfolio
Philosophy Portfolio
Anthropocentric Model
Humans are superior and central to the universe. The dominant of humanity
is linked to the dominant of nature.
HUMAN
CULTURE
INDIVIDUALISM
MIND
CALCULATIVE
Ecocentric Model
The ecological or relational integrity of the humans. This puts the ecosystem
first and assumes that
NATURE
WILD
HOLISM
NATURE / COSMOS
BODY
RELATIONAL
EARTH / WISDOM
ECOLOGY OVER / AGAINST
HUMAN
Aesthetic Appreciation
Relaxation Social Interaction
Satisfaction Self-understanding
Enjoyment Growth toward Holism
Peace Calm
LESSON 5: Freedom of the Human Person
Realize that All actions have consequences
ARISTOTLE
The Power of Volition
The imperative quality of judgement of practical intellect is meaningless,
apart from will. The will of humanity is an instruments of free choice. It is within
the power of everyone to be good or bad, worth or worthless.
This is borne out by:
The general employment of praise and blame.
The common testimony of all human beings.
The rewards and punishment of rules.
Aristotle Intellectual Freedom
ACTION
WILL
REASON
Spiritual Freedom
ACTIONS
(GOOD OR
EVIL)
CONSCIENCE
GOD'S LOVE
JEAN PAUL SARTE
Individual Freedom
The human person is the desire to be God; the desire to exist as a being which
has its sufficient ground in itself.
THOMAS HOBBES
Theory of Social Contract
A Law of Nature is a precept or general rule established by reason, by which
a person is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life or takes away the
means of preserving the same; and to omit that by which he thinks it may be best
preserved.
INTERSUBJECTIVITY AS ANTOLOGY:
The Social Dimension of the Self
A. On PWDs
The process of suspecting, recognizing and identifying the handicap for
parents with PWD will include feeling of bewilderment, sorrow, anger and guilt.
Categories of PWD:
Diabetic
Asthmatic
Hearing impaired
Ethic fibrotic person
Industrial Revolution
A movement in which machine changed peoples way of life as
well as their methods of manufacture.
Industrialism
The rapid growth of these institution is seen as creating new
system within the 1830s. The invention of machines in view of doing
the work of hand tools. The use of steam, and other kinds of power via
the muscles of human beings and of animals.
LESSON 8: Human Persons Are Oriented Toward
Their Impending Death
A. Socrates
Socrates, a great teacher in Athens around 469 BC, believes that knowing
oneself is a condition to solve the present problem. Socrates has two different
ways of teaching: (1) to assess by questions the character of the student; and (2)
to set him problems, exhort him to reduce each problem to its constituent
elements, and criticize the solutions that he offers.
The first process is also called ironic process, a process that serves the
learner to seek for knowledge by ridding the mind of prejudices and then by
humbly accepting his ignorance. The second process is the maieutic process that
is employed after the first process has cleared the mind of the learner of the
ignorance, and then draws truth out of the learners mind.
Happiness
For Socrates, for a person to be happy, he as to live a virtuous life. Virtue
is not something to be taught or acquired through education, but rather it is merely
an awakening of the seeds of good deeds that lay dormant in the mind and heart
of a person.
B. Plato
Contemplation in the mind of Plato means that the mind is in communion
with the universal and eternal ideas. Contemplation is very important in the life
of humanity because this is the only available means for a mortal human being to
free himself from his space-time confinement to ascend to the heaven of ideas
and there commune with the immortal, eternal, the infinite, and the divine truths.
Platos Theory of Immortality
According to Plato, the body is the source of endless trouble to us by reason
of the mere requirement of food, and is liable also to diseases, which overtake
and impede us in the search after true being: it fills us full of love, lust and fears,
and fancies of all kinds, and endless foolishness.
C. Aristotle
Realizing Your Potential
For Aristotle, everything in nature seeks to realize itself to develop its
potentialities and finally realize its actualities. Aristotle has much more to say
about change. Change takes place in time and space. Since space and time are
infinitely indivisible, Aristotle analysed the notion of infinity.
Aristotle divided everything in the natural world into two main categories:
non-living things and living things.