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(THE HUMAN
PERSON AS A
MORAL BEING)
A.BASIC ANTHROPOLOGY
MAN IS A PERSON
MAN IS A SUBSTANTIAL
UNITY
MAN IS A SOCIAL BEING
MAN POSSESSES DIGNITY
AND RIGHTS
A. BASIC ANTHROPOLOGY
MAJOR THEMES
1. MAN IS A PERSON
FREEDOM
TO SELFGOVERN
IN THE
WORLD
RATIONAL
NATURE /
INTELLIGENCE
TO
UNDERSTAND
THE WORLD
Social nature to
social obligation
General not an individual command
Now, is it wrong to live in solitude?
It is not wrong for a hermit to live alone if, in
his estimation, he can achieve his individual
aims in a better way by adopting the
solitary life.
Marriage is a general demand but not
everyone is not oblige to marry.
Social contract
Communism
Is a complicated doctrine which includes
a complex of atheism, evolutionism,
historical materialism; it has a
methodology on its own according to
which the future ideal state can be
attained through revolution, dictatorship
suppression of freedom, etc.
New Order of Society: blind obedience
to the Party
Reminders of Ethics:
Principle of Stewardship
Universal Destination of Goods
Common Good
It stands to reason that if they derive protection
from society, they must be ready to contribute to
that society.
Submit to authority and to the legitimate laws of
society
THE HUMAN PERSON POSSESSES DIGNITY THAT HAS NO PRICE BUT VALUE
IMMANUEL KANT
B. CHRISTIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
MAN IS A CREATURE
MAN IS THE IMAGE OF GOD
MAN IS FALLEN BUT REDEEMED
1. MAN IS A CREATURE
Mans likeness to God is not only in his reason but also in his
responsible conduct.
He has the capacity to respond freely to the call of God.
MANS REASON HAS BEEN CLOUDED AND HIS WILL WEAKENED BY SIN
AND THUS THE IMAGE OF GOD HAS BEEN DISTORTED
Main Ideas:
St.Thomas understands man as a whole
Man is substantially united body and soul
Man is the point of convergence between
corporeal and spiritual substances
Man is one substance body and soul
He is insistent that man is a substantial
unity of body and soul
Manis composed of spiritual and
corporeal substance
On the soul
The soul, the animator of the
human body, is a substance.
It is a substance because it exists by
itself; it is incorporeal and spiritual.
Soul is a substance because it acts, it
wills, it thinks, it knows, etc.
The souls possession of will and
intellect is a priori and intrinsic in it.
The soul is unified with the body for
its lower activity, i.e. sensation.
To sum up
Man is substantially body and soul.
The soul is united with the human
body because it is the substantial
form of the human body.
Further, it is the principle of life of
the body.
But the soul, however, requires the
body as the material medium for its
operation particularly perception.