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GRADE 12
INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
First Semester SY 2020-2021

Week 7-8 Day 9 - 12

Lesson Title Human Person are Oriented toward their Impending

Death

Time Duration 4 hours

Consultation Time Wednesday 3:00 – 4:00 P.M.

Resources
Christine Carmela R. Ramos, PhD (2019). Introduction to the
Philosophy of the Human Person. Rex Book Store, Inc. 856 Nicanor
Reyes Sr. St., Sampaloc, Manila.

Title: What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on
happiness | Robert Waldinger
By: TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkKuTCFvzI

Title: The three Mexican deaths

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Learning Intent: The students can;

a. What is death?
b. Different views on death
c. Different religious view on death
d. Filipino views on death

CHECKING FOR PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

Quote for the day. Write the best quote that you think best says about life. Please prepare to share with the class.

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Instructional Strategies

A. Context

It has been known to humankind that death is inevitable. Existentialist philosopher Sartre called our existence as
doomed, but nonetheless it gives us a compelling realization that forces us to search for meaning in this existence. In this
module, let us journey in search for signification of human life in front of death.
B. Concept Notes

Views on death
Different disciples Ancient views, Biological, Psychological, theological, and
Philosophical
Religious Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism
Filipino Atang

Guided Practice
Video Analysis. Take time in watching the videos below. Link is provided for those who can access the internet. For
learners who cannot access the internet please refer to ATTACHMENT #1 entitled 4 lessons from the longest-running
study on happiness by Daryl Chen

Title: What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | Robert Waldinger
By: TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkKuTCFvzI

Title: The three Mexican deaths

By: Jason Silva: Shots of Awe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-vEj2YOTXw&t=133s

Please refer to ATTACHMENT #2

C. Independent Practice

Please refer to ATTACHMENT #3

CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING

Please refer to ATTACHMENT #4

Learning

There are only few ways to immortalize someone’s life. One way is to make an autobiography. You are to make
your own autobiography that shows information like personal information,

Attachments

ATTACHMENT #1
4 lessons from the longest-running study on happiness
By Daryl Chen

Essential, data-derived advice for leading a happy, healthy life, shared by researcher and psychiatrist Robert Waldinger.
Have you ever wished you could fast-forward your life so you could see if the decisions you’re making will lead to
satisfaction and health in the future? In the world of scientific research, the closest you can get to that is by looking at the
Harvard Study of Adult Development — a study that has tracked the lives of 724 men for 78 years, and one of the longest
studies of adult life ever done. Investigators surveyed the group every two years about their physical and mental health,
their professional lives, their friendships, their marriages — and also subjected them to periodic in-person interviews,
medical exams, blood tests and brain scans.

With a front-row seat on these men’s lives, researchers have been able to track their circumstances and choices and see
how the effects ripple through their lives. Psychiatrist Robert J. Waldinger, the study’s director and principal investigator,
shared some of the major lessons in a popular TED Talk (What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on
happiness). He says, ”We’d been publishing journal articles with our findings for 75 years, but we publish in journals about
lifespan developmental research that few people read. The government has invested millions of dollars in the research, so
why keep it a secret?”

The big takeaways from that talk: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier, and loneliness kills. But there were,
of course, many more lessons to be learned — the study has yielded more than 100 published papers so far, with enough
data for “scores more” — and Waldinger shares four of them here.
1. A happy childhood has very, very long-lasting effects.
Having warm relationships with parents in childhood was a good predictor you’ll have warmer and more secure
relationships with those closest to you when you’re an adult. Happy childhoods had the power to extend across decades
to predict more secure relationships that people had with their spouses in their 80s, as well as better physical health in
adulthood all the way into old age. And it’s not just parental bonds that matter: Having a close relationship with at least
one sibling in childhood predicted which people were less likely to become depressed by age 50.

2. But … people with difficult childhoods can make up for them in midlife.
People who grow up in challenging environments — with chaotic families or economic uncertainty, for instance — grew
old less happily than those who had more fortunate childhoods. But by the time people reached middle age (defined as
ages 50–65), those who engaged in what psychologists call “generativity,” or an interest in establishing and guiding the
next generation, were happier and better adjusted than those who didn’t. And generativity is not dependent on being a
parent — while people can develop it by raising children, they can also exhibit it at work or other situations where they
mentor younger adults.

3. Learning how to cope well with stress has a lifelong payoff.

We’ve all developed ways of managing stress and relieving anxiety, and Waldinger and his team have found that some
ways can have greater long-term benefits than others. Among the adaptive coping methods they examined are
sublimation (example: you feel unfairly treated by your employer, so you start an organization that helps protect workers’
rights), altruism (you struggle with addiction and help stay sober by being a sponsor for other addicts), and suppression
(you’re worried about job cuts at your company but put those worries out of mind until you can do something to plan for
the future). Maladaptive coping strategies include denial, acting out, or projection. The Harvard researchers found the
subjects who dealt with stress by engaging in adaptive methods had better relationships with other people. And their way
of coping had a cascade of beneficial effects: It made them easier for others to be with, which made people want to help
them and led to more social support, and that, in turn, predicted healthier aging in their 60s and 70s. Added bonus: people
who used adaptive mechanisms in middle age also had brains that stayed sharper longer.

4. Time with others protects us from the bruises of life’s ups and downs.
Waldinger has said “it’s the quality of your relationships that matters” is one significant takeaway from the study. Well, the
researchers have found that quantity counts, too. Looking back on their lives, people most often reported their time spent
with others as most meaningful, and the part of their lives of which they were the proudest. Spending time with other
people made study subjects happier on a day-to-day basis, and in particular, time with a partner or spouse seemed to
buffer them against the mood dips that come with aging’s physical pains and illnesses.

Waldinger continues to marvel at the researchers’ findings, even though he freely acknowledges how skewed their
research group is — “it’s the most politically incorrect sample you could possibly have; it’s all white men!” (In fact, the
group originally included John F. Kennedy.) With “only a handful” of the original subjects left to study, the Harvard team is
now moving on to the men’s 1,300 children who’ve agreed to participate (a group that’s 51 percent female). But he’s
painfully aware that the proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health could end even their long-running study. “Our
kind of research might be one of the first projects to go. Our work is not urgent; it’s not the cure for cancer or Alzheimer’s,”
he says. “But we have a way of understanding human life that you can’t get anywhere else and it lays the foundation for
important, actionable things.”

ATTACHMENT #2
Guide questions: Write your answer below.
1. How would you define a beautiful life?

2. What are the things that you do not want to forget? Why?

ATTACHMENT #3
Essay. Apply what you have learned on the class. Limit you answer into 3 sentences only.

Choose (3) from words below that best describe your future. Write your
choices on the box below. Explain your answer.
a. Success g. Meaning or Purpose
b. Fortune or Money h. Sickness
c. Fame i. Contentment
d. Power j. Faith
e. Recognition k. Love
f. Happiness l. Death

1.
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3.

Answer the following questions:

1. What is your personal definition of life? How do you appreciate life?

2. Is death the absence of life? Why or Why not?

ATTACHMENT #4
Pro/Con Grind. Put the lesson by providing a Pros and Con on each of Philosopher’s idea on Happiness and the
meaning of life. Limit your answer into 1 sentence only.

Philosopher PROS CONS

Socrates

Plato

Aristotle

Fredrich Nietzsche

Arthur Schopenhauer

Martin Heidegger

Jean Paul Sartre

Karl Jaspers

Write your own quote about life.

Formulated by:
Ramon S. Vencio Jr.