HUMAN PERSON

AS AN
EMBODIED
SPIRIT
Part 2
EMBODIED
SPIRIT
 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
• Explain how embodiment defines them as human
persons.
• Define the spirit and its characteristics.
• Discuss how spirituality defines human nature and
existence.
• Distinguish the limitations and possibilities for
transcendence
LET’S PONDER

Arrange the 10 commandments of

God from first to last
commandments.
Approaches of a
Human Person
 METAPHYSICAL
 Essential components of a human
person. THE WHAT OF A PERSON.

EXISTENTIAL
 Essential features of the human way of
life. THE WHO OF A PERSON.
WHAT ESSENTIALLY
MAKE UP A HUMAN
PERSON?
 A Human Person has a HUMAN BODY

And 3 Non-Bodily

SOUL MIND SPIRIT

 The life conscious Nonphysical
giving ness. nature.
function
 WHAT ARE THE
COMPONENTS OF A
HUMAN PERSON?
 UNSPIRITED BODY
view that human person is
essentially just his/her body and
nothing more.
No spirit just body
 DISEMBODIED SPIRIT
view that human person is essentially
just his/her spirit.
Body cannot survive without the spirit
but the spirit can survive without the
body.
 Two Supporters are:
PLATO AND RENE DESCARTES
They believe in
Substance Dualism
 Spirit is
independently of
body
 PLATO’ S CONCEPTS ON HUMAN PERSON

■ Plato believed in dichotomy.

■ Body (material) and Soul (immaterial)
are separable.
■ Plato believed that the soul is
imprisoned in the body. In death, the soul
is released from the body.
3 PARTS OF SOUL ACCORDING TO PLATO

APPETITIVE SPIRITUAL
 Found in  Found in
abdomen RATIONAL the chest
 Found in
the head
RENE DESCARTES’ S CONCEPTS ON HUMAN
PERSON

He proposed that the mind and body exist

as two separate entities which interact
with one another.
 EMBODIED SPIRIT
 Human person is formed by the
unity of Body and Soul.
 Body and soul cannot exist
independently from each other.
 Two Supporters are:
ARISTOTLE & St. THOMAS AQUINAS
They believe that
body and soul are
inseperable
 ARISTOTLE’S CONCEPTS ON HUMAN
PERSON
☆ Aristotle believes that body and soul are
inseparable.
☆ Body (form) and soul (form) constitute
the human person as a whole.
☆ It is the soul that animates the body.
☆ “Man is a rational animal.
 3 LEVEL OF SOUL ACCORDING TO
ARISTOTLE
VEGETATIVE SENSITIVE
 Found in  Found in
plants RATIONAL the animal
 Found in
the human
☆ The soul is the real person
which has an inherent quality
for independent existence.
☆ Man is the unity of body and
soul.
 CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
Believed that the union of body and soul
in the human person is anchored on the
truth, established in the Bible.
It holds that spirit is created by God, and
that it is embodied in the human being.

Upon the body’s demise,