The human person in society

Cards (26)

  • Reasons why human beings establish societies

    • Exist to relate to others
    • By nature is a social being
    • A person experiencing variety of relationships
  • Society
    Organized group of people whose members interact frequently and have a common territory and culture
  • Society
    Companionship or friendly association with others
  • Thomas Hobbes - persons are governed by their desires often lead to conflict -“social contract”(agreement)
  • John Locke – person are more cooperative and reasonable known as “consent of the governed”
  • Jean Jacques Rousseau – people are one who organized society and established an authority “general will” – empowered the government to act on their behalf
  • John Rawls - human having a “veil of ignorance” - to seek a just and fair society
  • David Gauthier – peoples “self interest”, actions of individuals in meeting their individual needs
  • Common Good
    • desire to achieve the goal of survival
    • united and work together because of the natural desire for goodness
    • refers to social conditions which enable persons and groups to fulfill their goals and achieve well-being
    • peace and order
    • clean and safe public space
  • Hunting and Gathering Society – earliest and simplest, nomadic, members treated equally
  • Pastoral Society – domestication of animals for more stable food and supply, trade with other societies, engage in handicrafts
  • Horticultural society– scale cultivation and domestication, seminomadic, tasks assigned according to gender, often very family and clan oriented (restrictions by tradition)
  • Agrarian or agricultural society – improved technology and use of tools to aid in farming, structured social system often lead to conflict.
  • Feudal Society – ownership of the land – served by peasants(workers), higher classes – treated with respect
  • Industrial society – specialized machineries, innovations, transportation and communication, capitalists(most influential)
  • Post Industrial Society – based on knowledge, information and sale services led by human mind aided by highly technology, members are having higher educational attainment.
  • Virtual society – aided with technology and internet – human person still remains in the heart of the society as he or she drives social changes.
  • Interpersonal relations are made possible when the self becomes aware of the other, which includes everyone and everything outside of the self.
  • Interpersonal relations - means recognizing the self in the other
  • Intersubjectivity- is the interaction between the self and the other, which is the mutual recognition of each other as persons.
  • Intersubjectivity- It is also defined as  a unique relationship between distinct subjects
  • What characterizes a genuine human interaction?
    A dialogue occurs when two persons “open up” to each other and give and receive one another in their encounter.
  • How does intersubjectivity define our interactions with other persons?
    The human person is considered as a “being with others,” that human existence is continual dialogue with the other, and that the self become whole through interaction.
  • EMPATHY
    • Is the ability to share emotions.
    •   It is driven by a person’s awareness that the other  is a person with thoughts and feelings.
    • Empathy enables us to experience another person’s emotion.
    • Sympathy is “feeling with,”  while Empathy is “feeling in.”
  • Availability
    • Is the willingness of a person to be present and be at the disposal of another.
     
  • Alienation - This arises when a person ceases to view the other as a distinct and authentic person.