INTRODUCTION TO THE

PHILOSOPHY OF THE
HUMAN PERSON
MRS. LELSIE MONICA MACAISA-REYES
Teacher II
REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS LESSON
DIRECTION: Analyze each situation
carefully and identify what type of thinking
was used.
1. A teacher listens first to both stories of her
two arguing students before making
conclusion about the issue.
REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS LESSON
2. A teacher scolds Student A after Student B
accused him of stealing her pencil case.
However, the Teacher only listened to the
side of Student B, and not to Student A
before deciding to scold the student.
REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS LESSON
3. Dr. Mac don't just provide patients with
medications. Instead, he looks at ways to
improve life balance and eradicate health
problems from their root source, such as high
stress or bad nutrition.
REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS LESSON
4. IT professionals were given an appraisal
by Mr. Reyes, the CEO of the company not
just for performing their role in the IT
Department but also for contributing into the
overall business and profit objectives.
REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS LESSON
5. Julie always gets into trouble because she
used to listen into one side of the argument.
ANSWERS:

1. Holistic Thinking
2. Partial Thinking
3. Holistic Thinking
4. Holistic Thinking
5. Partial Thinking
MOTIVATION

DIRECTION:
Identify the following persons through
arranging the given jumbled letter.
CSOARTSE
 SOCRATES
470/469–399 B.C.E.
is remembered for his teaching methods and for
asking thought-provoking questions. Instead of
lecturing his students, he asked them difficult
questions in order to challenge their underlying
assumptions—a method still used in modern-day
law schools. Because Socrates wrote little about
his life or work, much of what we know comes
from his student Plato.
OPTAL
 PLATO

428/427–348/347 B.C.E
studied ethics, virtue, justice, and other ideas
relating to human behavior. Following
in Socrates’ footsteps, he became a teacher and
inspired the work of the next great
Greek philosopher, Aristotle. 
TRISATOLE
 ARISTOTLE
384–322 B.C.E.
Also interested in ethics, studied different
sciences like physics, biology, and astronomy.
He is often credited with developing the study
of logic, as well as the foundation for modern-
day zoology.
ACTIVITY: “Who Am I”
DIRECTION:
Reflect on the philosophical thoughts of
Socrates, “Unexamined life is not worth
living” and answer the following question.
Write your answer in a one-half (½) sheet of
paper.
1. Who am I?
2. Why I am here?
3. What is my life’s purpose?
Processing Questions:

1. What could be the meaning of “Unexamined life is not worth

living” by Socrates?
2. Upon answering the three given questions, what have you
realized?
3. Is it important to think holistically before making conclusion/
or answering a question? Elaborate your answer.
ABSTRACTION

Doing philosophy means engaging oneself in

“matters of utility” and methodologies to
eliminate any practical problem or abstract
idea.
ABSTRACTION
Doing philosophy involves asking the right
questions, critically examining the work of
previous philosophers, truly understanding the
works and the reasoning behind the works, and
possibly building on the works of previous
philosophers by expanding or testing this
methodology.
ABSTRACTION
Doing philosophy improves one’s problem-
solving capacities by contributing to his
capacity to organize ideas and concepts, and to
extricate what is fundamental from amounts of
information, thereby widening his view.
ABSTRACTION
Doing philosophy improves one’s problem-
solving capacities by contributing to his
capacity to organize ideas and concepts, and to
extricate what is fundamental from amounts of
information, thereby widening his view.
ABSTRACTION
Skills involved in doing philosophy are:
• critical,
• logical, and
• analytical thinking,
• observation, and
• communicative skills.
ABSTRACTION
Inquiry means man’s effort to integrate his
experience as responsible agent. By
experience we mean the interactive process
itself, that is, the human self in dynamic
relation with the whole range of the other.
ABSTRACTION
Three Levels of Inquiry
1. Common Sense - a basic ability to
perceive, understand, and judge things that
are shared by (common to) nearly all
people without need for debate.
ABSTRACTION
Three Levels of Inquiry

2. Scientific- Based on or characterized by

the methods and principles of science.
ABSTRACTION
Three Levels of Inquiry

3. Philosophical - relating or devoted to

the study of the fundamental
nature of knowledge, reality and existence.
APPLICATION

DIRECTION: Come up with a word web

map based on your understanding about the
three levels of inquiry.
APPLICATION
EVALUATION
DIRECTION: Write T if the statement is
True and F if it is False.

1. The three Great Greek Philosophers are,

Socrates, Aristotle and Plato.
EVALUATION

2. In the process of doing philosophy, it is

critical to have partial point view before
answering questions or making
conclusions.
EVALUATION

3. Doing philosophy involves some other

skills such as critical, logical, and
analytical thinking, observation, and
communicative skills.
EVALUATION
4. As a person begins to philosophize, he used
to organize concepts and ideas to widen his
knowledge and point of view.
5. Scientific is a one of the three levels of
inquiry that is devoted to the study of the
fundamental nature of knowledge, reality
and existence.
ANSWERS:

1. T

2. F
3. T

4. T
ASSIGNMENT

Research for the differences of Eastern and

Western philosophy. Cite your sources.
Write your answer in a clean sheet of paper.