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The Human Person Compressed Min Min
The Human Person Compressed Min Min
The Human Person Compressed Min Min
PHILOSOPHY:
A person is a being characterized by
consciousness, rationality, and a moral sense,
and traditionally thought of as consisting of
both a body and a mind or soul.
The Notion of a Person
Personhood
-the status of being a person
-a controversial topic in philosophy
and law
- closely tied to legal and political
concepts of citizenship, equality, and
liberty
Needs and Values of Human Persons
• Knowledge
• Freedom
• Willfulness
Knowledge
• a familiarity with someone or something, which
can include facts, information, descriptions,
or skills acquired through experience or education
• theoretical or practical understanding of a subject
• can be implicit (as with practical skill or
expertise) or explicit (as with the theoretical
understanding of a subject)
• can be more or less formal or systematic
Knowledge
• In philosophy, the study of knowledge is called
epistemology.
• The philosopher Plato famously defined
knowledge as "justified true belief." However, no
single agreed upon definition of knowledge exists,
though there are numerous theories to explain it.
• Knowledge acquisition involves
complex cognitive processes: perception,
communication, association and reasoning; while
knowledge is also said to be related to the capacity
of acknowledgment in human beings
Freedom
• the state of being free at liberty rather than in
confinement or under physical restraint
• exception from external control, interference,
regulation, etc.
• the power to determine action without restraint
• political or national independence
• personal liberty, as opposed to bondage or slavery
Willfulness
• said or done on purpose; deliberate
• obstinately bent on having one's own way.
Definition of Conscience
Latin words:
This conscience is a
result of a stubborn
character.
Different Kinds of Conscience:
Lax Conscience
Conscience that tends to follow the
easy way and to find excuses for
mistakes.
Different Kinds of Conscience:
Scrupulous Conscience
Disturbed conscience
trying to restore good
relations with God by
means of sorrow and
repentance.