Lesson3 Flashcards
- General term commonly used to refer to the entire human race.
- Related terms include: Humanity, mankind, and humankind.
Man
-Refers to man as a species.
Human
-Modern human beings
Homosapiens
-Used to distinguish man from other animals.
- Nature of humans as animals.
HUMAN BEING
A much more complex term generally refers to a human being granted recognition of certain rights, protections, responsibilities, and dignity.
Person
The totality of an individual, possessing awareness, self-determination, and the capacity to interact with others and with himself or herself.
Human person
Refers to the state of being a person.
Personhood
Refers to the characteristics that distinguish humans from other creatures.
These traits arise independent of the influence of nature and society.
Examples: thinking, feeling, and acting.
These traits are considered to form the essence of humanity, and without them, an individual may not be considered a human person.
Human nature
TRAITS THAT DEFINE A PERSON
SELF AWARENESS?
-SELF AWARENESS
-RATIONALITY
-INNER WORLD
-INTERIORITY
Human thought
Deeper awareness
A person is aware of both his or her surroundings and himself or herself.
This awareness gives rise to the notion of the “self”.
Self awareness
Described as the person who is actively aware that he or she is perceiving.
Enables us to reach out and interact with things outside of ourselves.
Self
Defined by our thoughts and ideas.
Having an inner world allows a person to create goals, dreams, and plans that may be realized through activity.
Inner world
The quality of being focused on one’s inner life and identity.
Enables persons to exercise creativity.
Allows us to daydream, imagine, fantasize and reflect.
Interiority
The quality of persons to make choices and decisions based on their own preferences, monitor and regulate their actions, and be goal-oriented and self-directed.
Self determination
The capacity to choose a course of action from various alternatives.
Enables us to do actions whenever we want to and make self-determination possible.
Enables a person to act willfully, control his or her actions, and recognize himself or herself as the source of action.
Free wil
The result or effect of an action or condition.
Consequence
The goodness or badness of an act.
Human action is an important aspect of the person. Philosophers consider human action to reveal a person’s true nature.
Morality
The capability to reach out and interact with others and the world.
Philosophers consider man a social being, and that a person never exists in isolation.
Our interaction with others defines our existence as a person.
Externality
The innate right to be valued and respected.
Each person is worth the same as another person in the sense that every person is priceless, unique, unrepeatable, and irreplaceable.
Dignity
WHAT IS IN OUR HUMAN NATURE THAT ENABLES US TO BECOME PERSON?
Body and spirit
A person is truly defined by his or her body and what he or she experiences through the senses
Body
The unseen aspects of the human person which, along with the body define us as a person.
Intangible element that enables us to exercise thought, possess awareness, interiority, and the capacity to reach out to the outside world and other persons.
Spirit
HOW ARE THE BODY AND THE SPIRIT RELATED?
The human person is defined by the union of the body and the spirit.
Enables us to do and experience all things that make us human person.
Is the one thing that enables us to feel love and love others.
EMBODIMENT
