INTRODUCTION TO THE

PHILOSOPHY OF THE
HUMAN PERSON
 WEEK 7 | HUMAN
SOCIETYAND THE MEANING
OF DEATH
LESSON 7: SOCIETY AND THE
HUMAN PERSON
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REVIEW OF THE PAST LESSON:
Share your answer in your assignment.
1. Pick one personality. Report in class how his/her
contributions have changed social landscape for
most PWDs.

2. What have you learned from this PWDs story

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 Motivation:
What is the first thing that comes in mind when you see the
following images?

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 LESSON 7:
Society and the human
person
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 The individual and society
✣ Society is defined as a lasting social group whose members have
developed organized patterns of relationship through interaction
with each other.
✣ Society exist due to humans’ natural capacity to associate with
others.
✣ With society a person learns how to submit to authorities and
surrender some of his/her freedom in order to attain a peaceful
and harmonious environment.

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 the individual and social contract
theory
✣ Social Contact Theory – states that society came to exist
out of people’s desire to have a harmony in society.

✣ Thomas Hobbes – in his claims that man created a

government and surrendered his several rights and
freedom out of fear of death.

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 the individual and social contract
theory
✣ John Locke –English philosopher , according to him the
government was created under a social contract and was
given the responsibility to uphold the natural law and
guaranteed the rights proceeding from such law.
✣ Jean Jacques Rousseau – french philosopher, claimed that
the civil society did nothing to ensure the observance od
equality and imposition of individual liberty.

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 Exercise 7.1
Give the salient features of the social contract, as explained
by Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau.

Thomas Hobbes

Social
Contract

Jean-Jacques
John Locke
Rousseau
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 Man and social system
Social system – is the interaction of two or more individuals
in a bordered situation.
✣ Elements of Social system:
1. Belief 5. Statuses and roles
2. Sentiments 6. Authority
3. Goals and Objectives 7. Sanction.
4. Norms

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 Forms of society
✣ Each stages of social creation and development is
characterized by their ability to improve themselves and
develop their full potentials.
⨳ Nomadic Societies (Hunter-gatherer societies)
⨳ Pastoral Societies
⨳ Horticultural Societies
⨳ Agricultural Societies
⨳ Industrial Societies
⨳ Postindustrial Societies
⨳ Virtual Societies.

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 Insights 7.2
Directions: Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
Note: if you have less or more than four things you have learned from
the lesson you can write it inside the box.
A.
BIG things I
have learned Question (s)
from the lesson. still goes
around my
mind.
Values I
need to
enhance.
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Post Test 7.3

Directions: Answer the following questions.
1. Define Society?

2. How can society transform a person?

3. Enumerate the different social systems.

4. Give the features of the different forms of Society.

a. Agricultural society
b. Industrial society 18

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 Assignment 6.4
Read the assigned article to expand your knowledge.
 What does your world view says about your death?
By Josh Holowell

 Below is the website for the story:

https://
hopeformuncie.org/blog/what-does-your-worldview-say
-about-death/2015/8/6

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