Lesson 2 Flashcards
defines human being as “a man, woman, or child of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished form other animals by superior mental development, power of articulated speech, and upright stance.”
The Oxford Dictionary
Aspects of Human Nature
Somatic
Behavioral
Attitudinal
refers to the body, material composition, or substance of a human person.
Somatic
the human person’s mode of acting.
the human person’s mode of acting.
the human person’s inclinations, feelings, ideas, convictions, and prejudices or biases.
Attitudinal
According to _______, human person has an immortal soul that is the source of movement (or has the capacity to have motion coming all from the inside).
PLATO
According to ________ there are three kinds of substance: matter, shape or form, and the product of both (composite of form and matter).
ARISTOTLE
Concepts on the kinds of soul
Rational Soul
Sensitive Soul
Vegetative Soul
Rational Soul
It is capable of thinking, reasoning, willing, reflecting, and deciding apart from sensing and growing.
Sensitive Soul
It feeds itself, it grows, it reproduces, and it has feelings
Capable of feeding, growing and reproducing itself.
Vegetative Soul
5 POSSIBILITIES OF EMBODIED SPIRIT
SUBJECTIVITY
INCARNATED
WHICH REALIZES ITSELF
WITH THE HELP OF THE WORLD
INTERSUBJECTIVITY
it is the human person’s possibility as a subject which is spiritual or internal. It comprises the cognitive, functional and affective faculties of the human person.
Subjectivity
literally means the coming into flesh or the possibility to be a body.
Incarnated
