Human Person in Society

• Conformity


  Tendency to conform to an image or idea associated with being a certain type of person
• Conformity leads to mediocrity
• Feudalism


  Medieval system where land was owned by lords and worked by serfs
• In the Middle Ages, there was no dichotomy between faith and reason. Faith and reason were complementary and parallel to each other.
• Reason


  Requires faith that the world is an organized world where reason can operate
• Faith


  Needs reason to support its claims in order to be proven true and valid
• Anselm's Argument


  The nature of the existence of God is different in principle from the nature of all other existences
• Modern Period


  An attack and rejection of the Middle Ages that occupied the preceding thousand years
• Christopher Columbus landed in the "New World", altering the geography and politics of the world forever

  1492
• Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the castle church at Wittenberg, initiating the Reformation


  1517
• The Reformation resulted in several centuries of sociopolitical and economic upheaval in Europe, changed the operation and policies of the Christian Church, and changed conceptions of human nature
• Protestant Ethic


  The value attached to hard work, thrift, and efficiency in one's worldly calling
• The coming of the Spaniards forced Filipino women to suppress their emotions, could not go out of the house without a companion, were denied political and educational rights, and were treated as second-rate citizens
• By the 1890s, Filipina women transcended their social restrictions and started to unify to contribute to the cause of the 1898 Revolution
• Leadership reached a peak in the Renaissance period, resulting in the revival of ancient philosophy and European philosophers turning from the superstitious to empirical explanations of the world
• The Vitruvian Man


  One of the most famous icons in the Renaissance period, created by Leonardo da Vinci in 1490, representing ideal human proportions based on ancient Roman texts by Vitruvius
• The Vitruvian Man embodies Renaissance ideals of harmony and perfection, and illustrates the connection between mathematics, art, and science
• Rationalism


  Philosophical movement that promoted the use of reason and intellect to understand and analyze natural phenomena and human nature, turning away from the religious and superstitious explanation of the world
• Empiricism


  Importance of sensory experience and observation in gaining knowledge
• Naturalism


  Only logic and evidence in the physical world are the only proofs needed to understand man and the world
• Critical Idealism


  Humanity shapes its world through thought, feeling, and belief, and the external world is a reflection of our inner world
• Copernican Revolution


  Represents a questioning attitude towards activities of nature and spirit of rebellion, to have beliefs and facts based on observation, logic, and evidence, and search for new standards of truth and acceptance
• Western findings may not necessarily clash with the traditional methods of living
• Business and development can affect biodiversity, especially if it exploits or dehumanizes other ways of living/culture
• Corporations should not consider themselves supreme over other traditions
• The film Medicine Man (1992) had shown both possibilities of the Western world that both embraced and degraded the environmental or ancestral lands of the tribe
• Transformations of human relations by social systems


  • New knowledge
  • Policy Making
  • Economic Sphere
  • Social Realm
  • Technology
• Technology


  Serves as a means to an end, enabling humanity to strive
• Globalization began in the West, influenced by Renaissance liberal ideas
• Charles Babbage's invention of the Difference Engine in 1810, a machine to calculate truth tables, pioneered modern computer use
• Joy Carol's book, "The Fabric of Friendship" highlights that only another woman can really feel in her guts what it means to be a woman