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Western philosophers have debated the nature of man. Some key views include: Plato saw man as a knower with an immortal soul; Aristotle viewed man as a rational and social animal; Thomas Aquinas believed man is made of both body and soul. Later philosophers such as Sartre saw man as "being-in-the-world" while Heidegger viewed man as "being there," responsible for others. Overall, Western thought has explored man as both a physical and spiritual being, seeking to understand human nature and existence.
Western philosophers have debated the nature of man. Some key views include: Plato saw man as a knower with an immortal soul; Aristotle viewed man as a rational and social animal; Thomas Aquinas believed man is made of both body and soul. Later philosophers such as Sartre saw man as "being-in-the-world" while Heidegger viewed man as "being there," responsible for others. Overall, Western thought has explored man as both a physical and spiritual being, seeking to understand human nature and existence.
Western philosophers have debated the nature of man. Some key views include: Plato saw man as a knower with an immortal soul; Aristotle viewed man as a rational and social animal; Thomas Aquinas believed man is made of both body and soul. Later philosophers such as Sartre saw man as "being-in-the-world" while Heidegger viewed man as "being there," responsible for others. Overall, Western thought has explored man as both a physical and spiritual being, seeking to understand human nature and existence.
philosophers has the same identification or understanding regarding What is MAN Overview: People may differ in many aspects? They may differ in size, color of skin, race, social economic status and many more. Despite these differences, they are all human. Man is considered a unique area of study since it take man as the subject as well as the object of knowledge. (Martin Buber) Definition of MAN According to Thales Man born from animals quickly find nourishment for themselves: man alone needs a lengthily period of sucking, so that had he been originally as he is now, he could never have survived. According to Socrates Mans body comes from his world matter but his reason comes from the Universal Reason or Mind of the world. He is more concerned of man as a moral beings. According to Plato Man is a knower and a possessor of an important soul. According to Aristotle He viewed that man as the rational and a social animal. To him, man is not the center of the universe. He is only a part of it. According to Augustine Man is a great mystery. And the ultimate felicity of man is in the contemplation of truth which properly belongs to man alone. And in the contemplation of wisdom, is God According to Thomas Aquinas Man is a creature of God. According to him, man is a composite of body and soul. The soul has the elements of reason and will. According to Mirandola According to his thesis (on the Dignity of Man), man make himself what he wishes to be. And also according to him man is a three-chief zone of the created universe; the immaterial angels, the material but incorruptible heavenly bodies and the corruptible earthly body. According to Teilhard de Chardin Man is the only significant link between physical order and spiritual one. Without man, the universe will be a howling wasteland contemplated by a unseen deity. In addition, he said that man is a special phenomenon. He is a being who knows and knows what he knows. In his masterpiece the Phenomenon of Man, Chardin reconcile Christian theology with the scientific theory of evolution, and he said the man is necessary to discover man and take his measures. The Philosophy of Man 1. A sense of spatial immensity, in greatness and smallness, disarticulating and spacing out, within a sphere of indefinite radius, the orbits of the objects which press round us. 2. A sense of depth , pushing laboriously through endless series and measureless distance of time, which a sort of sluggishness of mind tends continually to condense for us in the slightest change in the universe. 3. A sense of number, discovering and grasping unflinchingly the bewildering multitude of material or living elements in the slightest change in the universe. 4. A sense of proportion, realizing the best we can, the difference and dimension, the atom form the nebula, the infinitesimal from the immense; 5. A sense of equality, or of novelty, enabling us to distinguish in nature certain absolute stage of perfection and growth, without upsetting the physical unity of the world. 6. A sense of movement, making man capable of perceiving the irresistible developments hidden in extreme slowness, the extreme agitation beneath a veil of immobility; the ability of making man capable of moving, thereby breaking the monotony of repetitions of the same things. 7. A sense of organic, discovering physical links and structural unity under the superficial juxtaposition of succession and collectivities. According to Jean Paul Sartre and Gabriel Marcel Man is is a being-in-the-world According to Gabriel Marcel the Mystery of being illustrate his belief in the world if immediate experiences and concrete data which are rich and mysterious. He recognizes the problems of today to be primary philosophical According to Martin Heideger Man is a being there part of this world and part of the next. Everything around him is bounded by the human situation and he is surrounded by other men and beyond this, nothing no Heaven, no God. He believes that man is responsible not only for himself but for all men, as well According to Engelber VanCrooneburg (Introduction of Philosophy he gave the following thoughts about man. 1. Man is raised above the abyss of nothingness 2. He lives on the dividing line between the part and the present and the future; 3. He is embodied 4. He is above all subhuman and 5. He rise above lower levels of his existence and teaches consciously beyond himself into being of which he partakes and becomes more than he is.
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1. Man has the experience of his own existence. It is only through mans own being that he comes in contact in the reality of the world. The experience of the self is the experience of ones own existence 2. To exist is to stand out. He is a being-in-the-world. Through mans existence, he is raised above the abyss of his nothingness. He lives in the demarcation line between the past and present. He is fundamentally related to his body. 3. Man is related to his body. If man says I have my body it does not mean that the I is equal to his body. He is more than his body. 4. Mean is a being in the situation. Many elements of his situations of are not his making. No man has ever chosen who his parents would be. However, there are elements in his life where he can make choices, he can make friends, he can develop interest, etc. 5. Man is more than his life, he lice his life. He becomes master of his life. His vocation is the perfection of life and personality to the full measure to which has been destined. 6. Man possesses his own values, his authentic growth take palce in the here and how of the concrete situation. The values he has are on the subject level and thus, enhances his own existence. 7. Man is creative. He is a Homo viator and as such, needs to transform his life to a continuous growth to authenticity. He has the ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment. 8. Man can experience pain and suffering. But, he can also find meaning of them. Man is subject to pain and suffering. He has to accept these pain and sufferings and attempts to find its significance in his life. 9. Man is a being unto death. Death gets its full meaning only in relation to life of which it is the end. Mans view of life influences his understanding of death. 10. Man experience joy and pain. As accepted by philosophers, the unfolding of the human personality is a mixture of joy and pain. Life is a combination of successes and failures, joy and sorrow. This die to the nature of man - a result of his material and spiritual beings. 11. Man has super-temporal dimensions. Man knows that with the emergence of his spirit, his real self will find highest expression. Thank You! For listening and cooperating!
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