Lesson C: Jesus Christ as the one who sheds Light on the Mystery and Dignity of the Human Person Flashcards
Together with the rest of humanity, the Church, following Christ as her model, has made it her mission to __________.
uplift the lives of everyone in this world.
To do this, the Church teaches that it is only in knowing Christ that the human person can arrive at a full understanding of who He really is.
A Bipedal primate belonging to the genus homo, particularly homo sapiens
Opposable/prehensile thumbs (grasping tools)
More defines frontal lobe
Larger cranium
3% DNA Difference from Apes
UNDERSTANDING MAN AS A PERSON
The Human Person: Biological Perspective
defined as “primus actus corporis physici organici” and is the first act of a physical organic body; it is the principle of life.
Soul
Any being, therefore, that manifests life and thereby performs vital operations have a soul,
True or False
True
In the language of some philosophers, any living being is besouled being
True or False
True
HIERARCHY OF BEING (Scala Naturae)
God
Angels
Humans
Animals
Plants
Minerals
Operari Sequitur Esse (Operation follows being)
Nutrition
Growth
Reproduction
Sensation
Locomotion
Intellection
Volition
refers to the operation by which creature’s life is conserved
vial operation which transforms food into nutritive substances by the process of metabolism and the ability to assimilate these nutritive materials tp the different parts of the body
Nutrition
refers to the augmentation
by which living beings acquire by nourishment the quantity characteristic to it (montis a minore ad majorem quantitatem).
result of the assimilation of food
obtains the development characteristics of the species to which it belongs.
Growth
by which a new organism is generated from a previous organism (origo viventis a principio vivente conjuncti in similitudinem naturae)
process whereby living beings, after reaching maturity , perpetuate their species.
REPRODUCTION
operation that manifests the capacity to move from one place to another
LOCOMOTION
considered as an immaterial operation because its object is the idea which is an immaterial presentation of reality
INTELLECTION
is an immaterial operation and its objects is the idea which is immaterial because it is a movement consequent upon the immaterial apprehension of the intellect
VOLITION
The Human Person: Aristotelian-Thomistic View
-> Individua Substantia Naturae Rationalis
-> An individual substance of a rational nature
———>Capax Dei (Capacity for God)
Capax Dei
Capacity for God
natural facility by God to us, enabling us to know God. That is to say that the human mind is in obediential potency to knowledge of God.
Obediential Potency
With his whole being Man gives his assent to
God the _____.
GOD THE REVEALER