The Human Person in Society PDF

**THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE SOCIETY** **RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY** - Society does not exist independently without individual. - Society has become an essential condition for human life to arise and to continue. - It is in the society that an individual is surrounded an...

**THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE SOCIETY** **RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY** - Society does not exist independently without individual. - Society has become an essential condition for human life to arise and to continue. - It is in the society that an individual is surrounded and encompassed by culture, as a societal force. - The question of the relationship between the individual and the society is the starting point of many discussions. It is closely connected with the question of the relationship of man and society. **AGRARIAN ERA** - An era of human history, beginning roughly 10,000 years ago and lasting until the beginning of the modern era. - production of food through agriculture was a central focus **MODERN ERA** - the period of human history that succeeds the Middle Ages (which ended around 1500 AD) up to the present. - a period of significant development in the fields of science, politics, warfare, and technology. - an age of discovery and globalization. **HUMAN BEINGS --** the most interesting nature during the modern period. **VITRUVIAN MAN** - da Vinci\'s study of the human form. - demonstrate the perfect ratios and proportions found in human anatomy. - An image associated with health/fitness, and with the practice of medicine. In some cases, the Vitruvian Man is himself taken as an embodiment of health. INVENTORS - Galileo Galilei - Alexander Graham Bell - Thomas Edison - Robert Fulton **GALILEO GALILEI** - a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician. - born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa Italy - Invented the telescope. **ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL** - A Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer. - Born on March 3, 1847, Edinburgh United Kingdom. - credited with patenting the First practical telephone. **THOMAS EDISON** - An American inventor and businessman. - (February 11, 1847 -- October 18, 1931) - electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. Light bulb **ROBERT FULTON** - an American engineer and inventor. - (November 14, 1765 -- February 24, 1815) - credited with developing the world\'s first commercially successful steamboat, the **North River Steamboat** (also known as **Clermont**) **MEANING OF LIFE** H**APPINESS** - For Socrates, for a person to be happy he hasto live a virtuous life. - **VIRTUE** is not something to be taught, it is an awakening of the seeds of good deeds. **ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER** - German philosopher and considered one of the most influential thinkers in Western philosophy. - Known for his philosophical pessimism and profound insights. - "WE HAVE TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR OWN EXISTENCE." **EXISTENCE** - seeks to understand the nature and meaning of human life. It is all about the purpose of life, **PLATO** - Contemplation in the mind of Plato means that the mind is in communion with the universal and eternal ideas. - According to Plato universal and eternal ideas are concepts that exist literally. **CONTEMPLATING** - important in the life of humanity because this is the only available means for mortal human being to free himself from his space-time confinement. **PLATOS THEORY OF IMMORTALITY** - According to plato, the physical Human body is the source of endless trouble to us. - The physical body, for plato causes us confusion in our questions. - To see the truth, we must quit the body. - Knowledge can be attained after death. **ARISTOTLE REALIZING YOUR POTENTIAL** - actuality and potentiality. - everything in nature seeks to realize itself to develop its potentialities and finally realize actualities. **MARTIN HEIDEGGER** - phenomenology and existentialism. - His ideas have exerted a seminal influence on the development of contemporary European philosophy. - September 26, 1889 -- 1976, Messkirch, Germany. - human existence is exhibited in care. Care is understood in terms of finite temporality, which ends with death.