THE HUMAN PERSON AS EMBODIED SPIRIT

MAN- Generally and commonly define to represent the entire human race.
HUMAN- A term used to refer for various classifications and species. For a living man, human is under the
classification of Mamalia.
HUMAN BEING- A term used to separate man from other Human Classifications like animals.
PERSON- Refers to an individual who possess self-awareness, self-determination, rational mind, and the capacity to
interact with other and with himself/herself.
PERSONHOOD- A general term refers to the state of being a person with unique, sacred, and ethical status with
him/herself.
HUMAN NATURE- A general term refers to the deepest and natural behavior of a person that distinguish human
from animals. A collective trait that formed and considered the very essence of humanity. Nobody can be considered
man without human nature.

THE HUMAN PERSON IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT- Developments that meet the needs of the present without compromising the
ability of the future generations to meet their own needs.
TWO KEY COMPONENTS
1. The concept of needs, in particular the essential needs of the world’s poor; and
2. the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment’s ability to
meet present and future needs.
THREE IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABILITY
1. Environmental integrity
-refers to maintaining the state of the environment.
2. Economic efficiency
- refers to prudence in decision-making regarding the use of resources to ensure that there is minimum to zero waste
- Prudence is the ability to regulate one’s action and behavior.
3. Equity
- demands that we use natural resources in such a manner that these are conserved that the next generation will be able
to use them
- prudence and frugality can guide us in our use of resources
- Frugality is being thrift in the use of one’s resources.
Environmental Ethics- the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings to, and also
allow the value and status of, the environment and this non-human contents.
Value - something has an intrinsic value if it has inherent worth in itself
- something has instrumental value if something is considered as a means towards achieving a certain end.