CHAPTER 2 - HUMAN SELF Flashcards
What are the three defining characteristics of a person that makes them a distinct Entity?
Self
Identity
Personhood
It is to posses sentience, the ability to feel or experience/perceive anything around us and react to stimulus.
Self
What are the three views that address the idea of CONCEPT OF SELF
Innate, Emergent, Integrated and Developing
It is define as the distinct personality of an individual, which persists through time but may also change.
Identity
Is the recognition of a human being as a distinct entity
Personhood
A belief that a person is a person if they possess the ability to determine their life through REASON FREE CHOICE.
Person as an Autonomous Being
The belief that man is a rational being with the capacity to reflect and function as a person
REASON FREE CHOICE
Holds the idea that a human has an inherent capacity to function as a person through potential. It also states that through this potential, we possess the means to achieve our capabilities. This view allows for disabled persons and children to be recognize as persons
Unified Individual
States that a person becomes a human being through interaction or socializing with others.
RELATION TO OTHERS
“A person is defined by his actions, experiences. And if we got to have our experience, we can achieve self-development and fulfillment”
Pope John Paul II
Fill in the Blank: Defining man is closely tied to the concept of ___________
Civil Liberties
ASPECTS of a person
Non-material and Material
It is the quality of being materialized/ the characteristic of possessing a body
EMBODIED
Something internal, immaterial; the substance
SPIRIT
Refers to the inseparable union of the body and the soul and vice versa
HUMAN PERSON AS AN EMBODIED SPIRIT.