HUMAN

WHAT IS A

PERSON?
WHAT IS A HUMAN PERSON?
1. Human person is just essentially just his/her body
and nothing more.
2. Human person is just essentially just his/her spirit
and nothing more.
3. Human person is just essentially the unity of
his/her body and spirit.
AN EMBODIED
 METAPHYSICAL EXISTENTIAL
APPROACH APPROACH
• Which focuses on the • Which focuses on the
kinds of substances or kind of life, or mode of
materials and capacities existence, that is unique
that uniquely make up a to human person.
human person.
 METAPHYSICAL EXISTENTIAL
APPROACH APPROACH

Dealing with the Dealing with the

WHAT WHO
of a human person. of a human person.
 IT IS MADE OF..?
ARE ITS COMPONENTS?DOES IT ONLY
WHAT MADE UP OF BODY?

IS A
HUMAN
PERSON
HUMAN
PERSON
HAVE A SOUL
MIND Emphasizes its consciousness.

SPIRIT Emphasizes its life

giving function.
WHAT ARE THE COMPONENTS OF A
HUMAN PERSON
THREE POSSIBLE ANSWER.

1.UNSPIRITED BODY VIEW

2.DISEMBODIED SPIRIT VIEW
3.EMBODIED SPIRIT VIEW
1. UNSPIRITED BODY VIEW
- human person is just essentially just his/her body
and nothing more.
SUPPORTERS
MIND-BRAIN IDENTITY THEORY
- Mental state or neutral state of the brain.
2. DISEMBODIED SPIRIT VIEW
human person is just essentially just his/her spirit
and nothing more.
 PLATO RENE DESCARTES
• SOUL • MIND & MATTER

DUALISM
Physical & nonphysical

They both believed that:

• Spirit or soul is independent with the body.
• Immortality of the spirit
3. EMBODIED SPIRIT VIEW
human person is just essentially the unity of his/her
body and spirit.
 ARISTOTLE
SOUL is the cause of life.
is a form
MIND is a matter

PLANTS ANIMALS HUMANS

Vegetative/Nutritive Soul Sensitive Soul Rational Soul
 THOMAS AQUINAS
Human soul
is
“subsistent”
rather than
“substance.”
 Q UIZ
½ CROSSWISE 17
I.
1-3. What are the components of human person?
4-5. What is the other term for soul?
6-8. According to Aristotle the plants, animals, and
humans has a soul called as….?
9. Human person is just essentially just his/her body
and nothing more. It is called ______ ?
10. Human person is just essentially the unity of
his/her body and spirit. It is called ______ ?
KEY ANSWERS
1. Unspirited body view , Disembodied spirit view or
Embodied spirit view
4-5. Mind / spirit
6-8. Vegetative/Nutritive Soul, Sensitive Soul &
Rational Soul
9. Unspirited body view
10. Embodied spirit view