PHILO-HUMAN PERSON

• Freedom is an intrinsic and essential property of the person.
• Physical freedom refers to the absence of any physical restraint.
• Psychological freedom, also called freedom of choice, is the ability of the person to perform actions that he or she considers right and wise.
• Moral freedom refers to using freedom in a manner that upholds human dignity and goodness.
• Voluntariness in human freedom refers to the ability of the person to act out of his or her own free will and self-determination.
• Post-industrial Society uses machinery in producing goods and services.
• Responsibility in human freedom refers to the person being accountable for his or her actions and their consequences.
• Post-industrial Society is based on knowledge, information, and the sale of services.
• Post-industrial Society has given rise to the virtual society.
• Feudal Society is a society where those who own land are considered the most powerful and influential.
• Industrial Society uses machinery in producing goods and services.
• Feudal Society is based on the ownership of land.
• Prudence in exercising human freedom is the ability to govern and discipline oneself with the use of reason; it is having caution and giving good judgments in making decisions.
• Self-reflection in exercising human freedom allows each person to analyze his life both in small and big details in terms of the decisions, actions and choices he make.
• Free will is the ability of individuals to make choices and determine their own actions.
• Intersubjectivity is interaction between the self and the other, which is the mutual recognition of each other as persons.
• Intersubjectivity refers to the shared awareness and understanding among persons wherein it is made possible by the awareness of the self and the other.
• Important values related to intersubjectivity include acceptance of differences and embracing diversity.
• Empathy is awareness of emotions and thoughts of other people in which it enables a person to place himself or herself in shoes of others that leads to a greater understanding.
• Availability in interpersonal relationships refers to the willingness of a person to be present and provide assistance for another.
• John Locke’s social contract is a covenant among individuals to cooperate and share the burden of upholding the welfare of the society.
• In Thomas Hobbes’s view, persons in their natural states are governed by their desires and those often lead to conflict with their fellowmen.
• Stephen Hawking, born in 1942, is a physicist and cosmologist who has a rare condition called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Nicholas James “Nick” Vujicic, born in 1982, is an Australian evangelist and motivational speaker who was born with phocomelia, a condition in which a person is born with no arms and legs.
• Despite her handicap (loss of vision), Roselle was a consistent honors student.
• Philosophers consider society as the product of deliberate actions by individuals who come together in pursuit of a common goal.
• Norms are a set of traits and behaviour that society considers acceptable, and society regulates the behavior to establish social order.
• The human person in society is a “social-being”.
• The Age of Enlightenment is associated with Social Contract Theory according to Thomas Hobbes.
• People have the rights to overthrow a field government.
• Roselle Ambubuyog is the first visually-impaired Filipino to graduate summa cum laude from Ateneo de Manila in 2001.
• Social Contract Theory according to Jean Jacques Rousseau advocates the concept of “ general will ”.
• Society refers to an organized group of people whose members interact frequently and have a common territory and culture.
• Social Role are actions and behaviors expected of a certain individual.
• Society is a means by which people seek to control their natural tendencies and impose order.
• Individuals who establish societies enter into a “social contract”.
• People have empowered the government to act on their behalf, and that is considered to be the best judge of what is most beneficial for society
• A social contract is an agreement where individuals sacrifice an amount of their freedom and submit to a higher authority.
• A social system is an organized or patterned set of relationships among individuals and groups that compose a society.
• Helen Keller, born in 1880, was an American author, political activist, and the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor’s degree.