THE HUMAN PERSON AS

AN EMBODIED SPIRIT
INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
BODY LETS TALK!
HUMAN PERSON
• It is a being that has
capacities like reason,
immorality conscious,
self consciousness. It is
also about the purpose
of meaning of life.
HUMAN PERSON CONSISTS OF THESE THREE

MIND SOUL SPIRIT

PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY

• METAPHYSICS APPROACH – Deals with “WHO” of a

human person

• EXISTENTIAL APPROACH – It deals with “WHO” of a

human person
COMPONENST OF A HUMAN
PERSON
UNSPIRITED BODY VIEW

• Its just his/her body

DISBODIED SPIRIT VIEW

• Its just his/her body

EMBODIED SPIRIT VIEW
THE PHILOSOPHERS

• Plato and Rene Descartes, this two philosophers are into

Disbodied spirit
• Aristotle and St. Thomas this two are into Embodied spirit
 PLATO

“HUMAN PERSON IS A IMORAL SOUL”

PLATO NOTION OF HUMAN BEINGS

- this a theory that depicts the human as a body with a soul.

According to this, human are made of three confliting
elements, first is the reason, reason is in opposition to
sensation, perception, feeling, desire, as the faculty (the
existence of which is denied by empiricists) by which
fundamental truths are intuitively apprehended. , second is
the passion, passion are the instinctive, emotional, primitive
drives in a human being ,and third is appetite, appetite is to
drives the human person to experience the thirst,hunger and
other physical wants.
 ARISTOTLE
“THE HUMAN PERSON IS COMPOSITE OF
BODY AND SOUL”
ARISTOTLE NOTION OF HUMAN BEINGS
-According to aristotle, the general definiton of soul that involves the
concept of life. The soul for Aristotle is the principle of life therefore
anything that has life has a soul.
-Aristotle believes that the soul is the form to the body and then the
body is the matter to our soul. Everything that exists is compose of
matter and form, matter & form are indeed inseparable.
-Lastly, in the context of the human person Aristotle believes that
body and soul are insperable. Therefore, constitute the human person
as a whole.
 RENE DESCRATES

“THE HUMAN PERSON IS A THINKING

THING”

RENE DESCARTES NOTION OF HUMAN BEING

- descartes conceives the human person as a conscious and
embodied agent, whose essential nature is mind and soul,
according to him a substances whose essence is to think, that
control the mechanically working body and is also influenced
by its movement.
 ST. THOMAS OF AQUINAS

St. Thomas Aquinas –

St. Thomas Aquinas is a medieval philosopher he
believes that of all creatures is human beings.
Philosophy is based grasped in his treatises summa
conta Gentiles Summas Theological.
- He consider the human being as moral as a moral
agent. For St. Thomas Aquinas all the human
beings are both spiritual and body elements
spiritual and material. Spirituality seperates us
form animals we also have a conscience thus
whether we choose to be good or evil becomes our
responsibility.
 ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

-St Augustine's works are considered
to be the most influential in the
early medieval period.
-According to him, christianity is the
only full and true Philosophy.
-For him, philosophy is not only the
love of wisdom (amor sapiental) but
it is also the love of god.
THE HUMAN PERSON IS AN EMBODIED SPIRIT
LIMITATION OF THE HUMAN
PERSON AS AN EMBODIED
FACTICITY

-Facticity and
contingency, it is time
that already given and
all details surrounds us
un the present such as
our environment, our
language, past, present,
and even out future
death
SPATIAL-TEMPORAL BEING
THE BODY AS INTERMEDIARY

-Our body is an intermediary to

the physical world and our
world