Human Person as a Social Being Flashcards
The Republic; Defines the soul (rational, spirited, appetitive)
Plato’s Idea
It is well ordered society; Individual play the most important role in maintaining the social
Plato
Mas as social animal; Man and woman have the natural desire to propagate their species; Humans are capable of speech; Homo Socius; Faculty of speech necessarily implies mans sense of good and evil
Aristotle’s idea
Humans are social beings
Homo socious
Modern society depends on the people’s ability to criticize and reason collectively about existing tradition
Habermans on discourse
Kinds of Society
- Primitive Communal
- Slave
-Feudal - Capitalist
Karl Marx
Depends on hunting, fishing, and farming
Primitive Communal
Hierarchy
Feudal
Involves a class of slave and slave owners for activities of production
Slave
Involves a class of property owners, workers for production
Capitalist
Focuses on large before small (society -> individual)
Macro theoretical
Focuses on small before large (Individual -> society)
Micro theoretical
The individual is shape by society in terms of his/her identity and values
The social as generator of identity
survival of humans depends primarily on the natural act of man and woman to procreate
Men and women have a natural desire to propagate their species
Implies man’s sense of good and evil or just and unjust as beings having the said capacity
Humans are capable of speech