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Understanding Man as a Person

Man is a complex being composed of a physical body, intellect, and emotions. He has various needs that are physiological, intellectual, psychological, social, economic, political, moral, and spiritual. Man strives to fulfill these needs to live a full and happy life. Each person is unique due to influences from heredity, culture, and environment. A person exists independently and is capable of independent thought, love, and self-directed actions with their own values and ethics. Therefore, each man must be respected as a thinking, feeling, and acting being.

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Understanding Man as a Person

Man is a complex being composed of a physical body, intellect, and emotions. He has various needs that are physiological, intellectual, psychological, social, economic, political, moral, and spiritual. Man strives to fulfill these needs to live a full and happy life. Each person is unique due to influences from heredity, culture, and environment. A person exists independently and is capable of independent thought, love, and self-directed actions with their own values and ethics. Therefore, each man must be respected as a thinking, feeling, and acting being.

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Chapter II

Man as a Person

Introduction

 Man is a complex organism, for he is composed of a physical body, intellect and

emotions. He has needs and wants to be satisfied in order to live a successful and happy life.

He has needs and appetites that are physiological, intellectual, psychological or emotional,

social, economic, political, moral, and spiritual in nature. All his efforts are geared towards the

fulfillment of these needs as he strives to live a full life. He has to work for the satisfaction of

these varied needs. These needs should be fulfilled to avoid frustrations.

 Man is scientifically named Homo sapiens. He has distinct characteristics that make him

different from the other creatures on earth.

 Every man is born inimitable, each one different from others. An individual’s nature is

manifested and fashioned by heredity, culture. and environment

 The word “person” comes from the Greek word prosophon. meaning “mask”---that which

is used by stage actors. Its Latin equivalent personare refers to the mask through which an

actor forcefully projects his voice. We may, therefore, speak of a person as a human being,

hidden by the mask.

 As Agapay (1991) concludes, a person exists distinctly and independently from others

and is capable of knowing and loving in an intellectual way, and of deciding for himself the

purpose or end of his actions. He has his own set' of values and work ethics.

 Hence, man, says Palispis (1995), has to be respected as a being who can think and act
as a person. Every values teacher must address himself to the processes of thinking (cognitive

or acquiring knowledge), feeling (affective or forming attitudes and values) and acting

(psychomotor or acquiring skills)

I. Different Philosophical Views of a Man

Biological

Man is a complex being who behaves uniquely as a result of his hereditary,

environmental, and cultural influences. He is curious; he imitates others and has his own

interests. Man has his religion. He believes in a Divine Being, and has superstitions and beliefs in

animistic, supernatural, or spiritual things. A human being is a moral animal and has developed

Lesson I. Philosophies of Man

WHAT TO EXPECT

himself through the influence of heredity, environment, and cultural factors. Thus, man becomes

an integral human being Created in the likeness of God.

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