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Basic Education Department – Senior High School Creativity 2
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Name: ____________________________________ Grade/ Section/ Strand: ________________________

Teacher: __________________________________ Date: ______________________________________

Subject: Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person Reference: MELC Guide/Textbook
Topic: The Human Person in their Environment Type of Activity: Concept Notes/ Exercises

Learning Target: The learners will be able to appreciate and knows the function of man in the world.
Activity Number: 4

Objectives
1. Probe into a distinct frame about gaining valuable insights regarding the human person in the
environment.
2. Demonstrate the virtues of prudence and frugality toward his/her environment.
3. Appreciate the beauty of nature.

Guide Questions
1. How does Philosophy define man’s relationship with the environment?
2. What is the role of the human person in the environment?
3. What is a moral approach in analyzing the relationship between humans and the environment?
4. How can human beings live harmoniously with their environment?

Concept Notes

Human Person as a Being-at-the-World

a. Man’s existence is not a passive existence in the world. He is a being at the world. He does not
live in the world. He has the ability to appreciate, to work over the world, to transcend it and to
break through it.
b. Man exist as a being at work in the world. And the world becomes the fruit of his labors
subconscious mind, his inmost thoughts and his inmost feelings.
c. Man’s brain reveals the workings of his inner self. This manifest the way man controls the
destruction of disorder.

Environmental Disorders: Global Warming and Climate Change

a. A human person is a creature in the world – a part of the cosmic environment. Man and all things
in the environment are equally significant in the world. They are coexistent and the paralysis is
any dimension of the cosmic environment might threaten or risk the whole system including man.
b. Pollution occurs in land, water and air. It affects all forms of life, including that of man.
c. Human exploitation of the environment leads to the increasing amount of carbon dioxide and other
pollutions that trap sun’s heat in the atmosphere that causes the Earth to warm up.

Global Warming – is an increase in the average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere.

Climate Change – is the build-up of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, significantly changing the
normal or expected weather patterns and conditions in specific regions of the Earth.

Exercise A ( Group Work)

1: Look around from where you are right now. Interview 2 persons of different generations
ahead of you and ask a common place to both of them and let them describe their environment from their
perspective if there were changes or any improvement and write them down inside the table.

Senior Citizen Middle Age You

2. If you have heard or wrote down problems occurred or negative environment impact from between times
and era what solutions or improvement would you suggest? Complete the table.

Environment problem My solutions

Exercise B

Direction: Give some things that you noticed out of the picture and give a reaction out of it.

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Exercise C
Direction: Do a slogan or poster that represents a good and healthy environment.