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  • General term commonly used to refer to the entire human race.
  • Related terms include: Humanity, mankind, and humankind.
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Man

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-Refers to man as a species.

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Human

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-Modern human beings

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Homosapiens

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-Used to distinguish man from other animals.
- Nature of humans as animals.

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HUMAN BEING

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A much more complex term generally refers to a human being granted recognition of certain rights, protections, responsibilities, and dignity.

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Person

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The totality of an individual, possessing awareness, self-determination, and the capacity to interact with others and with himself or herself.

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Human person

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Refers to the state of being a person.

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Personhood

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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.

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Human nature

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TRAITS THAT DEFINE A PERSON
SELF AWARENESS?

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-SELF AWARENESS
-RATIONALITY
-INNER WORLD
-INTERIORITY

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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”.

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Self awareness

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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.

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Self

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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.

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Inner world

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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.

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Interiority

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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.

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Self determination

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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.

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Free wil

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The result or effect of an action or condition.

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Consequence

17
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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.

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Morality

18
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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.

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Externality

19
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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.

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Dignity

20
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WHAT IS IN OUR HUMAN NATURE THAT ENABLES US TO BECOME PERSON?

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Body and spirit

21
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A person is truly defined by his or her body and what he or she experiences through the senses

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Body

22
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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.

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Spirit

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HOW ARE THE BODY AND THE SPIRIT RELATED?

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The human person is defined by the union of the body and the spirit.

24
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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.

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EMBODIMENT

25
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A product of embodiment

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Experience

26
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ESSENCE OF TRANSCENDENCE

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To acknowledge our limitations.
Identify possibilities for development
Change ourselves for the better.

27
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Another aspect of transcendence ?

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opening yourself to new experiences and ideas.

28
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Ability to surpass limits.

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Transcendence

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