What makes a human

person different from

nature or other
entities?
 The Human Person
as an Embodied Spirit

Source:Introduction to the
Philosophy off the Human
Person, Pages 47 – 68
By : Christine Carmela R. Ramos, PhD
 Philosophy define the Human Person

•Philosophers also think about upon the

concept of the Human Person and what
makes him or her a different in nature and
entity.
 Philosophy define the Human Person

•“Human Person”
refers to the
individual, and all
the attributes and
characteristics that
set him or her apart
from other beings.
 Embodied
Spirit
Is the living, animating core within
each of us, the driving force behind
all that we think, say and do.

Source:Introduction to the
Philosophy off the Human
Person, Pages 47 – 68
By : Christine Carmela R. Ramos, PhD
Transcendence in
Global Age(East)

Source:Introduction to the
Philosophy off the Human
Person, Pages 47 – 68
By : Christine Carmela R. Ramos, PhD
TRANSCENDENCE
•An act of rising above
something to a superior
state
•Comes from the Latin prefix
trans-, meaning “beyond”,
and the word scandare,
meaning to climb.
 TRANSCENDENCE
•Though there are many aspects of
transcendence, this lesson will cover
three main spiritual philosophies
HINDUISM, BUDDHISM, and
CHRISTIANITY.
HINDUISM

•Hinduism is one of the

oldest Eastern traditions
practiced by hundreds
of millions of people for
about 5,000 years
 AUM or OM
• It is the universal name of
the lord
• This symbol is a sacred
syllable
representing Brahman, the
impersonal Absolute of
Hinduism—omnipotent,
omnipresent, and the
source of all manifest
existence.
 BRAHMAN

• One supreme spirit, eternal and

spiritual source o the universe
• Most Hindus believe that Brahman is
present in every person. It has many
forms, male o female, or an animal.
 BRAHMAN

• Brahman contains
everything: creation
and destruction, male
and female, good and
evil, movement and
stillness
 BRAHMAN
These are expressed in the trimurti and
are:
 HINDUISM
•Human beings
possess dual nature:
• The spiritual and
immortal essence
• Empirical life and
character
 ATMAN
•Sanskrit word or soul
•The atman is eternal
and independent o the
body. as body dies,
atman does not.
Instead it is placed into
a new body that is ust
being born. This is
reincarnation.
KARMA (कर्म)

• It refers to intentional
actions that affect one's
fortunes in this life and
the next.
Moksha

The end of birth

and rebirth
cycle
 NIRVANA
The highest state
that someone can
attain, a state of
enlightenment,
meaning a
person's individual
desires and
suffering go away
 UPANISHADS

The Upanishads are

a collection of texts
that contain some of
the central
philosophical
concepts of
Hinduism
 BUDDHISM
Is considered a religion and a path of
spiritual development which is said to lead
to an understanding of the true nature of
reality. Many people
consider it to be
a philosophy tradition
or a way of life
 Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)

He turned away
from Hinduism to
seek for answers to
the riddle of life's
sufferings, disease,
old age, and death.
FOUR NOBE TRUTH
EIGHTFOLD PATH
 BUDDHISM
The way to salvation, lies through
1. self-abnegation,
2. rigid discipline of
mind and body,
3.consuming of love for all
creatures, and the final
achievement of that
state of consciousness
 BUDDHISM
Those things mark
an individual's
preparation for
entering
the Nirvana
(enlightened
wisdom).
 BUDDHISM
The Buddhist practice four states of
sublime condition:
(1)love, (2)sorrow of others, (3) joy
in the joy of others and
(4)equanimity as regards one's own
joy and sorrows.
CHRISTIANITY
 CHRISTIANITY
•this section
looks at the
reasonableness
of belief in
Gods existence.
 CHRISTIANITY

•Religious people
do not treat
Gods existence
as a hypothesis.
 CHRISTIANITY

• The religious problem in the Old Testament narratives is not Atheism

the denial of God but Polytheism the worship of too many gods.
 CHRISTIANITY
• In the new
testament the reality
of God is
unquestioned
because the Jesus of
Nazareth the eternal
God became flesh
and dwelt among
human beings.
 CHRISTIANITY

•Christians
believe that
there is an
eternal life.
 ETERNAL LIFE
•Eternal life is, in
simple terms, a
life that doesn’t
end. “Eternity”
refers to the life
– in heaven or
hell – after this
present one on
the created
earth.
 How can
one have eternal
life with God?
•One has to accept Jesus as their Lord and
Savior to have an eternal life in heaven.
 BIBLE
•The holy book
of the Christian
religion
consisting of
the Old and
New
Testaments
 For Augustine(354-430 CE)

•Christianity as
presenting the
full revelation of
the true God, is
the only full and
true philosophy
 CHRISTIANITY
•philosophy is
"amor
sapiential", the
love of wisdom.
Hence it is the
love of God it is
then religious
 CHRISTIANITY
•-All knowledge leads
to God so that faith
supplement and
enlightens reason
that may proceed to
ever richer and fuller
understanding.
 CHRISTIANITY

•"Human
beings alone,
without God,
are bound to
fail"
 Evaluate Limitations

•1.FORGIVENESS-
we are freed
from our anger
and bitterness.
 Evaluate Limitations
•2.THE BEAUTY OF
NATURE- There's is
perfection in every single
flower; this what the
three philosophies
believed.
 Evaluate Limitations
•3.VULNERABILITY-
to be invulnerable
is somehow
inhuman. To be
vulnerable is to be
human.
 Evaluate Limitations
• 4. FAILURE - it force
us to confront our
weaknesses and
limitations. -such
acceptance of our
failures makes us
hope and trust that
all can be brought
into good.
 Evaluate Limitations
•5.LONELINESS- with
our loneliness we
can realize that our
dependence on
other people or
gadgets is
possessiveness that
we can be free from.
 Evaluate Limitations
• 6.LOVE - to love is to
experience richness,
positivity, and
transcendence. -Life is full
of risks, fears and
commitment, pain and
sacrificing and giving up
things we want for the
sake of the one we love.