Different Philosophies-Views about Man (2).ppt
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Transcript of Different Philosophies-Views about Man (2).ppt
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UNDERSTANDING THE SELF
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Self-awareness allows us to know who and what we are, that includes our identity, qualities, character traits, and values. Self-awareness allows us to know our relationship with others, our fellow human beings, that includes our family, relatives, friends, classmates and God. Self-awareness allows us to identify our differences and similarities in terms of our identity, qualities, characters and values.
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OBJECTIVESExplain the different philosophies/ views about man.12 Compare and contrast these philosophies/views about man.3 Explain the Christian view of man and its implications.
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THE DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES-VIEWSABOUT MAN
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MAN is a complex being above all other created beingsPRIOR KNOWLEDGE
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PHILOSOPHY 1I cannot live locked up inside myself. I must be open to the world and those around me.I must be meditative so that other people and the forces found in the universecan flow through me so that I can overcome all illusion about myself and theworld and thus discover an ultimate reality
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PHILOSOPHY 2 Im here for one purpose: to get as much gusto out of life as I can.Pain and suffering are evils that must be avoided at all costs.The main thing in life is to always feel good.
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PHILOSOPHY 3My purpose in life is work for the glorification of the group.The individual has no worth as such. Im like a cog in a big machine as I submitmy efforts to the largest efforts of the state.
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PHILOSOPHY 4I must do whatever I can do to increase my own freedom. Freedom means doing what I want to do. Hell is other people. What is good is that which furthers my interests.
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PHILOSOPHY 5In the light of death, life has no real meaning.It is a joke, the tale of an idiot signifying nothing.
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PHILOSOPHY 6Life begins with satisfying the bodily needs toward becoming self-actualized persons. All of mans needs are in a pyramid form
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PHILOSOPHY 7I have worth. I must strive to live a life of loving service for my fellow men, all of whom in the last analysis are my brothers and sisters.Life has a final meaning which resides outside of me, that is, in God,and in my relationship to Jesus Christ.
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PHILOSOPHY 1ORIENTAL VIEW OF MAN
Some Buddhists try to live a life of gentle submissiveness to the cosmic powers flowing in the universe, powers which they tryto let control their destiny.
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PHILOSOPHY 2HEDONISM
Corresponds to the playboy theory of life,where pleasure, especially of thephysical, sensual type is almost made into god.
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PHILOSOPHY 3COMMUNISTIC VIEW OF MAN
Individual has worth only to the degreethat he helps the interest of the state.
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PHILOSOPHY 4ATHEISTIC EXISTENTIALISM
Depicts an extremely individualistic way of looking at man, each person is radically separated from the all others.
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PHILOSOPHY 5NIHILISTIC VIEW OF MAN
This view maintains that man and his lifehave no ultimate meaning.
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PHILOSOPHY 6MASLOWS THEORY OF SELF
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PHILOSOPHY 7CHRISTIAN VIEW OF MAN