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1. INTRODUCTION TO THE
PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN
PERSON
Lesson 1 - Doing Philosophy

2. A. Exercises / Activities
Task 1: Picture Analysis:
Direction: Look at the picture below
and answer the following questions.

4. Guide Questions:
1.What do you notice from the
picture?
2.What does this image imply
about our efforts to comprehend
life's realities or solve long-standing
problems?

5. B. DISCUSSION/LECTURE
What is Philosophy?
Philosophy - defined as love of
wisdom
- came from two Greek
words philos (love) and Sophia
(wisdom).

6. Greece - birthplace of philosophy in
the West. To be more precise it is the
ancient Greek city of Miletus in the
Western coast of what is now Turkey
that gave birth to philosophy.

7. Thales - first philosopher in the West
- - known as the Father of
Philosophy in the Western
civilization
- - believed that despite the
different things we encounter there
is one underlying stuff or substance

8. in which everything is composed.
There is One in the Many.
- - He was the first individual
who tried to reduce the multiplicity
into a unity (Jones,1969).

9. BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY
Cognitive Branches - These branches
provide a description of being
(existence) and knowing. They are the
foundations of understanding any
philosophical system. Concerned with
what “is”

10. 1.Metaphysics - subdivided into
ontology which studies existence as
such and philosophical
anthropology which deals with the
fundamental and essential
characteristics of human nature
(Gotthelf and Salmieri, 2015); and
How do I know it? concerns the

11. nature of human knowledge and the
way to obtain it.
2.Epistemology - “branch of
philosophy that studies the nature
and means of human knowledge.”
Normative branches- These branches
are concerned with the standard

12. of the good and with what
“ought” to be.
1.ethics or morality - a branch of
philosophy that provides a human
being with a “code of values to
guide man’s choices and actions -
the choices and actions that

13. determine the course of his life
(Rand, 1964)
2.politics - Rand’s definition
politics is a branch of philosophy
“which defines the principles of a
proper social system“ . According to
Rand, the term "proper" refers to
what is appropriate for human

14. beings, which assumes that one
understands what a human being is.
3. Aesthetics - studies the nature
of art. It is concerned with the
nature and the objective judgement
of beauty.

15. HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE VS PARTIAL
POINT OF VIEW
Scenario #1

16. Scenario # 2

18. Ex.
A teacher listens first to
both stories of her two
arguing students before
making any conclusion
about the issue.
Ex.
A teacher scold student A after
student B accused him of
stealing her pencil case.
However, the teacher only
listened to the story of student
B, and not to student A before
deciding to scold the student.

19. PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE
-Are worldviews which try to define the nature of
life, the worlds, and the relationship of
individuals to the worlds and its parts.

21. Activity #2
Direction: Test all the perspective you
thought of by answering whether it is
right for Jericho to take the money.
Pick a perspective and say why you
choose this perspective. Remember to
relate it to the given scenario.

23. Activity # 3
What can you say about the quotation below? Do
you agree with this?

24. Rubric
Short Constructed Response Rubric
4-5
The response gives evidence of a complete understanding
of the problem. It is fully developed and clearly
communicated. All parts of the problem are complete.
There are no errors.
1-3
The response gives evidence of a complete understanding
of the problem. It is fully developed and clearly
communicated. All parts of the problem are complete.
There are no errors.
0
There is no response, or the work is completely incorrect or
irrelevant.