This document provides an introduction and rationale for a philosophy of the human person course. The course aims to help students cultivate critical thinking skills and gain a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationships with others. It does this through reflective, holistic, critical and analytical, and experiential approaches. Students will examine writings on philosophy and reflect on their own experiences to understand different facets of human experience. They will discuss relationships with oneself, others, and God. The course objectives are for students to reflect holistically, think critically, apply skills to life, and articulate a philosophy of life. Requirements include assessments, tasks, and a final exam.
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Introduction To The Philosophy of The Hu
This document provides an introduction and rationale for a philosophy of the human person course. The course aims to help students cultivate critical thinking skills and gain a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationships with others. It does this through reflective, holistic, critical and analytical, and experiential approaches. Students will examine writings on philosophy and reflect on their own experiences to understand different facets of human experience. They will discuss relationships with oneself, others, and God. The course objectives are for students to reflect holistically, think critically, apply skills to life, and articulate a philosophy of life. Requirements include assessments, tasks, and a final exam.
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INTRODUCTION TO THE
PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN
PERSON RATIONALE • As a fundamental component of the Curriculum and the meaning interpreter of human life, Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person strives to help the teacher, and all school personnel cultivate a humane and a professional life through which our distinct human transformation can be infused in the whole educational program. • The teacher considers his students “lovers of wisdom” in their own quest for the meaning and significance of becoming a human person. The Philosophy course for students seeks to respond to the challenges of human becoming as presented by the following components: • Reflective: This calls for a kind of formation that nurtures capacity to arrive at value-laden insights toward a broad perspective on life. It engages one to observe personal and social responsibility by reflecting and working with people to attain a synoptic vision of the good life imbued with justice, freedom, and unity. • Holistic: This focuses on developing the capacity to effect meaningful integration of learnings in one’s daily experiences from a holistic point of view. The cultivation of humanity is made up of and can be realized by the thorough process of self- introspection, intersubjectivity, and genuine dialogue. • Critical and Analytical: This seeks to transfer and create avenues towards the acquisition of critical and analytical thinking skills.
• Experiential: This promotes the firm consciousness of
the essence of human experiences as fundamental element in the development of the human person. COURSE DESCRIPTION • This course examines the human person’s search of the self and one’s identity within the totality of his experiences, using various writings in the philosophy of man as the point of departure for personal reflections. This course includes thematic discourses regarding the different facets of human experiences, which are fundamental in the understanding of man. • The discussion revolves around the triadic structures of man’s phenomenological experience: one’s relationship with oneself, with others, and with the Absolute Thou. At the end of the course, students are expected to have gained a deeper and dynamic understanding of themselves as individual human persons and as members of the society. GENERAL OBJECTIVES At the end of the course, the student should be able to: • Reflect on their daily experiences from a holistic point of view • Acquire Critical and Analytical Thinking Skills • Apply their critical and analytical thinking skills to the affairs of daily life • Become truthful, environment-friendly and service-oriented • Actively committed to the development of a more humane society • Articulate their own philosophy of life Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person aims to: • Instill appreciation of the process of doing philosophy as a discipline that permeates with interdisciplinary avenues for the pursuit of knowledge • Deepen moral life by learning life-long values and virtues imbedded in the daily experiences of the human person • Enrich ones understanding of the importance of wondering as element of human becoming and a path towards human transcendence • Deepen understanding of the formation of human relationships and how individuals are shaped by their social contexts • Encourage a mode of living that demonstrates a capacity for a critical and analytical reflection from the perspective of a holistic and profound vision of life. Course requirements and Grading System 25% Summative Assessments (4 Quizzes) Written Works (2 Worksheet, Reflection Paper, Journal) 20% Mini Tasks (3 Artistic Outputs) 30% Quarterly Performance Task (Main Task) – T.B.A. 25% Final Examination
Required Materials for the Subject
• Lecture Notes and Readings • Notebook • Art Materials SCOPE AND SEQUENCE First Grading Period (1st Week of January – 1st Week of March) I. Introduction to Philosophy A. Doing Philosophy B. Methods of Philosophizing C. The Human Person as an Embodied Spirit D. The Human Person in their Environment Second Grading Period (2nd Week of March – 2nd Week of May) II. Philosophy of the Human Person A. Freedom of the Human Person B. Intersubjectivity (Dialogue and Love) C. The Human Person in Society D. Human Persons as Oriented towards their Impending Death