LIGAO COMMUNITY COLLEGE

LIGAO CITY
1st Term AY 2023-2024

NATIONAL SERVICE TRAINING

PROGRAM

JERIC B. PEDRAJITA
Instructor
WHAT IS HUMAN BEING?
• Aristotle and Boethius
described man as a rational being. As rational being, a person is able
to know, reason out and apply what he knows.

Theologians
describe a human person as a substance of physical and spiritual.
Spiritual in nature because man has a soul and is created by a Superior
Being with a divine purpose. Physical in nature, because a person is
created with body and faculty that correspond to his relationship with
society.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A PERSON
(Eddie Babor)
• Eddie Babor discussed in his book “The Human Person, Not Real but
Existing” that the human person has several characteristics, among
which are the following:

Rational - Every person is a rational being. This is what distinguishes a

person from all other creatures in the world. As a rational being, a
person is free to think and has the capacity to reason. He can
distinguish what is right and what is wrong because he has intellect.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A PERSON
(Eddie Babor)
• Free - All human beings are born free. A person has the freedom to do
or not to do a specific action. However, every person must be
responsible for his own action. In other words, a person can do
whatever he pleases but not to the extent of doing harm to his co-
creatures.

• Unique - Every person is unique. Every person has his own identity
such that no two persons are the same. Generally speaking, human
beings have the same characteristics and physical features and but no
two persons are the same because every person has its own perception,
has different sets of values and priorities in life.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A PERSON
(Eddie Babor)
• Social being - Every person is intrinsically a social being. He cannot
detach his “being” from others and all other creatures in the universe.
Human nature is characterized by his togetherness and relationship
towards other creatures; be it a thing, object or his fellowman.

• Sexual - All created living things are sexual in nature but the
uniqueness of expression of a person’s sexuality makes it all different.
The expression of a person’s emotions, attitudes, feelings, actions and
thoughts in sexual activity best exemplifies his uniqueness from
animals.
What are values?

• The word “value” has its root in the Latin

word “valere” which means to be strong
and vigorous. This proceeds from the
premise that a human person has to have
strength or valor in every endeavor. It is the
basis on which his strength in facing the
challenges of life should be directed.
What are values?

• Dr. Tomas Q. D. Andres (1986)

would define values as “things,
persons, ideas or goals which are
important to life; anything which
enables life to be understood,
evaluated, and directed.”
What are values?

• On the other hand, Edgar Sheffield

Brightman defines value as “whatever is
liked, prized, esteemed, desired approved,
or enjoyed by anyone at any time. It is the
actual experience of enjoying a desired
object or activity. Hence, value is an existing
realization of desire.”
What are Filipino Values?
• Filipino values would be the standards or
principles set forth by the Filipino society as
basis for what is right or wrong, the principles on
which every member of the Filipino society
should persevere to attain in order to reach the
ultimate realization of his life, regarding his
person and in relation to his family and society in
general.
What are Filipino Values?

•The basic social unit

in the Philippine
society is the family.
FILIPINO CHARACTERISTICS

• Utang na loob is a situation where an

individual is required to return a favor or
service received. However, the return of
such service or favor cannot be translated
into monetary equivalent and may
reciprocated in a month of service or even a
lifetime.
FILIPINO CHARACTERISTICS

•bahala na comes from the words

Bathala na. It reflects the Filipino’s
dependence on the supernatural being
and on fate. This tends to move toward
the commonly conceived procrastination
character of the Filipino.