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This document discusses how humans can transcend their limitations. It examines several examples: (1) Forgiveness allows one to overcome anger and bitterness; (2) Appreciating nature's beauty can be moments of grace that lift the human heart; (3) Vulnerability is part of the human experience. Failure confronts us with our weaknesses but also allows us to surrender and have hope; (4) Loneliness stems from vulnerability but we can choose community over always seeking happiness; (5) Love involves risks but also richness; (6) Suffering was seen differently in Buddhism and Christianity but both saw compassion as important to relieve suffering.

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Philo 1 Reading Materials 10

This document discusses how humans can transcend their limitations. It examines several examples: (1) Forgiveness allows one to overcome anger and bitterness; (2) Appreciating nature's beauty can be moments of grace that lift the human heart; (3) Vulnerability is part of the human experience. Failure confronts us with our weaknesses but also allows us to surrender and have hope; (4) Loneliness stems from vulnerability but we can choose community over always seeking happiness; (5) Love involves risks but also richness; (6) Suffering was seen differently in Buddhism and Christianity but both saw compassion as important to relieve suffering.

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SUPPLEMENTAL READING MATERIAL IN

PHILO 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON


Prepared By: Mr. J. Lacasandile
WEEK 10

EVALUATE OWN LIMITATIONS AND THE POSSIBILITIES FOR THEIR TRANSCENDENCE

Based on the preceding section, let us evaluate our human limitations and how we can also
transcend them. Let us consider the following examples:

A. Forgiveness

When we forgive, we are freed from our anger and bitterness because of
the actions and/ or words of another. On the other hand, the hardness of our heart is reinforced
by whole series of rational arguments.

B. The Beauty of Nature

There is perfection in every single flower;this is what the three philosophies


believed. For a hug, for every sunrise and sunset, to eat together as a family, are our miracles.
These kinds of experiences can be truly moments of grace. They touch us deeply and the
human heart is spontaneously lifted. During this experience, we need to offer praise.

C. Vulnerability

To be invulnerable is somehow inhuman. To be vulnerable is to be human.

D. Failure

Our failures force us to confront our weaknesses and limitations. When a


relationship fails, when a student fails a subject, when our immediate desires are not met, we
are confronted with the possibility of our plans and yet, we are forced to surrender to a mystery
or look upon a bigger world. Such acceptance of our failures makes us hope and trust that all
can be brought into good. Even if we have sinned, as St. Augustine had, there is hope and
forgiveness.

E. Loneliness

Our loneliness can be rooted from our sense of vulnerability and fear of
death. This experience is so common. However, it is our choice to live in an impossible world
where we are always “happy” or to accept a life where solitude and companionship have a part.
With our loneliness, we can realize that our dependence on other people or gadgets is a
possessiveness that we can be free from.

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F. Love

To love is to experience richness, positivity and transcendence. Whether


in times of ecstatic moments or struggles. Life is full of risks, fears and commitment, pain and
sacrificing and giving up thing/s we want for the sake of the one we love. In Buddhist view, the
more we love, the more risks and fears there are in life.

G. Evil and Suffering

Suffering is close to the heart of biblical faith. In comparison with the


Buddha, who saw life in suffering and tried to control it instead of cursing it, Job, of the Old
Testament, did not just complain. He cursed the day he was born! In a phenomenological
perspective, all of us will continue to assert our will against others, adding to the overall
suffering of human experience.

In Christianity, suffering leads to the Cross, the symbol of reality of God’s


saving love for the human being. Suffering, in Buddhism, gives rise to compassion for suffering
humanity. Compassion is the heart of religion, but compassion can disappear from it. Religion
without compassion becomes law and burden imposed in its adherents. If there is no
compassion, religion can start wars that destroy enemies. Jesus condemned religion without
compassion and constructed, thus, the parable of the Good Samaritan.

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