Human Nature and Human Condition

Question 1

=suggests that it is a difficult task to
live an authentic life because living an
authentic life requires one to transcend the
__________.

Answer 1

-Jean Paul Sartre ; nothingness

Question 2

The Oxford Dictionary defines human being
as “a man, woman, or child of the species
___________, distinguished from other
animals by superior ____________,
_____________-, and ___________.”

Answer 2

Human person; Homo sapiens; mental development; power of articulate speech; upright
stance

Question 3

is the constitutive
structure of consciousness; that is,
consciousness is born supported by a being
that is not itself.

Answer 3

Transcendence

Question 4

asserted that the mind is a
thinking thing-distinct and unextended; and
that the body is a non thinking thing-distinct
and extended, and that his reality is how
distinct he is from the body, and he can exist
without it.

Answer 4

-Rene Descartes; HUMAN PERSON AS THINKING THING

Question 5

-Refers to the human person’s mode of acting
-Human person acts in accordance to his or
her condition as a human distinctly unique
from ________________________________

Answer 5

any other beings, irrespective of culture,
religion, or race.

Question 6

3 aspects of Human Person

Answer 6

SOMATIC
BEHAVIORAL
ATTITUDINAL

Question 7

-There are natural bodies that have either life
or do not have life.

Answer 7

-Aristotle; HUMAN PERSON AS BODY & SOUL-Aristotle; HUMAN PERSON AS BODY & SOUL

Question 8

Similarly, humans
are mortal and face the inevitability
of aging and death.

Answer 8

AGING

Question 9

-Superheroes who rely on external
sources of power, like magic,
highlight the human dependence on
tools, technology, and external
resources to overcome challenges.

Answer 9

DEPENDENCY ON EXTERNAL
POWERS

Question 10

asserted that the human
person has no fixed nature-that his or her
reality is his or her freedom.

Answer 10

-Jean Paul Sartre; MAN AS FREEDOM

Question 11

People often carry
emotional baggage and guilt from
past experiences.

Answer 11

GUILT

Question 12

is a person’s mental reaction to
stimuli or a person’s tendency to act.

-These tendencies may define a person’s ____________ and what he or she values as _________.

Answer 12

-Attitude; future
actions; right and
wrong

Question 13

However, some philosophers would say that
human beings are also __________, _______, and
_________________.

Answer 13

spiritual, ethical, and existential beings

Question 14

-Parker’s love for Mary Jane and
Aunt May can be seen as a reflection
of human vulnerability when it comes
to emotional connections. Just like
superheroes, humans can be
emotionally compromised when their
loved ones are in danger.

Answer 14

LOVE AND ATTACHMENT

Question 15

human flaws such as hubris or
excessive pride. These traits can
lead to mistakes and misjudgments.

Answer 15

OVERCONFIDENCE

Question 16

-The nature of man is pure mind.
-He can exist without this simple
non thinking thing–that human
nature is pure mind and having a
body is an accident.

Answer 16

HUMAN PERSON AS THINKING THING

Question 17

-Human physical weakness
-Just as we can be harmed by
toxins or diseases, superheroes can
be physically vulnerable to specific
substances or conditions.

Answer 17

KRYPTONITE

Question 18

defined as the inevitable
positive or negative events of existence as a
human being.

-Where person realizes how it is to be human.

Answer 18

-Human condition

Question 19

-The freedom as Sartre asserts is the _______________.

Answer 19

choice
of autonomy

Question 20

-Since it is the source of movement, is
something that is, in itself, necessarily
uncreated and immortal because if the soul is
itself created, then it could not have been the
source of movement.

Answer 20

HUMAN PERSON AS IMMORTAL SOUL

Question 21

is the knowing being in his
capacity as a being.

transcends (or surpasses) itself to reach an
object.

Answer 21

-Consciousness

Question 22

-Human person has free will and he/she has to
exercise this capacity for it is only in choosing
that the human person’s existence becomes
______________

Answer 22

-Jean Paul Sartre; MAN AS FREEDOM; authentic.

Question 23

-The human person, has an immortal soul that is the source of
movement.

Answer 23

HUMAN PERSON AS IMMORTAL SOUL; Plato

Question 24

-The body, material composition, or
substance of a human person.
-A view that stems from the advances made
in science and biology, which state that all
functioning of consciousness are reduced to
one principle: _______

Answer 24

Somatic; matter

Question 25

-Matter = Body / Form = Soul
-Human person=“ensouled” both body & soul
-The _____ is what makes the natural body,
which is a potentiality that becomes an
actuality. This theory implies that __________, the body does not have life.

Answer 25

HUMAN PERSON AS BODY & SOUL; soul; without the
soul

Question 26

• No __________ compels you
  to have life or to have motion.
• the soul is deemed immortal.

Answer 26

HUMAN PERSON AS IMMORTAL SOUL; Plato;
outside force

Question 27

-Human person’s inclinations, feelings, ideas,
convictions, and prejudices or biases.

Answer 27

ATTITUDINAL

Question 28

distinguished three kinds of
substance: matter, shape or form, and the
product of both (composite of form and
matter).

Answer 28

-Aristotle; HUMAN PERSON AS BODY & SOUL