INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN PERSON

PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHERS

JORHAINI M. MUTI
What is wisdom?
 What is wisdom?
what does it mean to be
a wise person?
 have you known someone you
can describe as a wise person?

What is wisdom?
what does it mean to be
a wise person?
What is passion?
 What is passion?
What does it mean to be
passionate?
 Can you consider yourself as someone
who is passionate?

What is passion?
What does it mean to be
passionate?
As a grade 11 student, why do we need to learn about philosophy?
 Humans, by nature, have a strong sense of inquiry. They
inquire and investigate all the phenomena of human
experience. They never cease to ask questions. Because of
this, philosophy came to exist as a field of study.
 This course aims to make the learners reflect on their daily
experiences from a holistic point of view; acquire critical and
analytical thinking skills, especially in dealing with all the phenomena
of life; and eventually apply their critical and analytical thinking skills
to the affairs of daily life. It is also hoped that the learners will
become truthful, concerned about the environement, service-
oriented, actively committed to the development of a more humane
society, and active contributors to global development.
Have you ever asked these questions at certain points in your life?

1. Have you ever wondered about life, love, and pain?

2. Have you ever pondered about death and the possibility of life
after death?
3. Do you believe that soul exists?
4. Have you ever asked yourself what makes something or someone
beautiful?
5. Have you doubted some truths?

If you have asked these questions, wondered at the various

possibilities in answering these queries, and wished to know the best
and the most logical answers, then you are engaging yourself in
philosophy.
etymologically speaking, philosophy is...

Philos (love) + Sophia (wisdom)

LOVE OF WISDOM
passion for wisdom
philosopher is...

According to several accounts and testimonies,

the discovery of philosophy may be attributed to
Pythagoras of Samos who was the first to use
the term "Philosopher".
philosopher is...

There is a big difference between being a lover

of wisdom and a mere receiver of knowledge
PHILOSOPHISIZING

WHAT IS LOVE?
When do you feel the most loved?
How do you love a person?
How essential love is in your life?
PHILOSOPHISIZING

unrequited transformative
Unconditional agape safe
expression
give and take LOVE language
platonic

desire
beyond beauty respect pain self-love
connection
commitment
toxic
PHILOSOPHISIZING

Plato’s Symposium presents the initiating text, for it provides

us with an enormously influential and attractive notion that
love is characterized by a series of elevations, in which
animalistic desire or base lust is superseded by a more
intellectual conception of love which also is surpassed by
what may be construed by a theological vision of love that
transcends sensual attraction and mutuality.
 Since then there have been detractors and supporters
of Platonic love as well as a host of alternative theories—
including that of Plato’s student, Aristotle and his more
secular theory of true love reflecting what he described
as ‘two bodies and one soul.’