THE HUMAN PERSON Flashcards
Person is an individual substance of rational nature
AQUINAS
Every human being is the image and likeness of God
CHRISTIANS
Personhood is inherent in every human being
CHRISTIANS
Humans reap worth, dignity, and intrinsic value as
human persons
CHRISTIANS
Personhood is the foundation of morality, philosophy,
art, science, law, and the life
CHRISTIANS
As long as there is life, there is soul
PLATO & ARTISTOTLE
Humanhood and personhood are synonymous, ensoulment, and is inherent only to humans
SULLIVAN
three kinds of soul
vegetative, sensitive, rational
plants and other vegetations
Vegetative
among humans
Sensitive
soul humans, soul is spiritual (invisible,
simple, indestructible, immaterial)
Rational
The marks of personhood are the ability to exhibit rationality, self-consciousness, awareness, sentience, autonomy and relate to others
PETER SINGER
A person is a self-conscious being able to use future tense in anticipation, hope, and dread
JOHN POLKINGHORNE
JOHN POLKINGHORNE
Respond to beauty and to the call of moral duty able to love other persons even to the point of self- sacrifice
Actions that proceed from the deliberate free will
HUMAN ACTS (VOLUNTARY)
Activity performed by man- physical, spiritual,
internal, external
HUMAN ACTS (VOLUNTARY)
Actions that are proper only to human persons
HUMAN ACTS (VOLUNTARY)
a thing that acts accordingly to its nature
Agere sequiter esse
Product of will acted upon in the light of freedom & knowledge
HUMAN ACTS (VOLUNTARY)
Actions that readily demand for the human person’s rationality
HUMAN ACTS (VOLUNTARY)
Theseareactsofperception(sensation),beating of the heart, blood circulation in the body, digestions of food etc.
ACTS OF MAN (INVOLUNTARY)
Occur without the control of the will and the consciousness of the human mind
ACTS OF MAN (INVOLUNTARY)
Do not make human responsible for their actions
ACTS OF MAN (INVOLUNTARY)