The NATURE OF MAN AND THE

PROJECT OF EXISTENCE
THE THREE KINGDOMS OF LIFE

• VEGETATIVE LIFE
• ANIMAL LIFE
• HUMAN LIFE
 VEGETATIVE LIFE
• The life of plants is
characterized chiefly by
the functions of (1)
assimilation of inorganic
substances from both
air and soil for the
building up of cells and
for growth,
VEGETATIVE LIFE
• And (2) the bearing of
seeds for the growth of
new plants of the same
kind, or for
reproduction of the
species.
 VEGETATIVE LIFE
• The period of growth
between germination and
flowering is known as
the vegetative phase
of plant development.
During the vegetative 
phase, plants are busy
carrying out photosynthesis
and accumulating resources
that will be needed for
flowering and reproduction.
 ANIMAL LIFE
• A kind of consciousness
effected by sense
organs.
• Quadrupeds: they are
distinguished by a brain,
the outer sense organs
and many nerve fibers
connecting all of these
in a most complicated
network.
 ANIMAL LIFE
• The primary urges of
the animal are those of
food and sex, that is,
the urge of preserving
the individual life and
life of the species.
 ANIMAL LIFE
• Both of these are given
to the animal so that it
may continue to live
and thus multiply by
itself and preserve the
species.
 HUMAN LIFE
• Man, the highest of the
animal, combines in
himself the distinctive
functions of plant and
animal life in addition to
those which are
characteristics of himself
as man, namely the
spiritual activities of the
intellect and the will.
• Social Nature of Man
 HUMAN LIFE

• It is only above the

levels of functions that
one finds the
DISTINCTIVE ACTIONS
OF MAN as rational
animal or an embodied
spirit.
 HUMAN LIFE
• The ACTIONS found in
the (1) domain of
man’s mental life, (2)
the actions of
intellectual knowledge
or of reason and (3) the
acts of the will that
follow such knowledge.
 Ma’am Leah

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