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Human Person as an Embodied Spirit
 The human person is an important subject in Philosophy and an

understanding of the nature and condition of the person is one of
the foremost goals of the discipline.
 Philosophers have long pondered human nature, what it means to
be human, and what sets us apart from other beings and things in
existence.
Man – general term commonly used to refer to the entire human race.
Human - refers to man as a species
Human Being - term used to separate man from other animals
Person - refers to a human being granted recognition of certain rights,
protection, responsibilities, and dignity. A totality of an individual,
possessing awareness, self-determination, and the capacity to interact with
others and with himself or herself.
Personhood – refers to the state of being a person.
Human Nature - refers to the characteristics that distinguish humans
from all other creatures.
TRAITS THAT DEFINE A PERSON

 Self-Awareness
-refers to the person having a clear perception of oneself, including
his thoughts, emotions, identity and actions.
 Rationality/Human Thought
- A person is aware of both his/her surroundings and himself/herself.
- RATIONALITY the quality of being based on or in accordance with reason
or logic.
- A human person knows that he or she is living an experience and is an
active participant in this experience.
 Interiority
- Quality of being focused on one’s inner life and identity. These enables
person to exercise creativity.
 Inner World
- Allows a person to create goals, dreams and plans which may be realized
through activity.
- The self also enables us to reach out and interact with things outside of
ourselves.
- This means that we are not only aware of our surroundings and
everything around us, but we are also aware of other human beings.
 Self- determination
- Capability of persons to make choices and decisions based on their own
preferences, monitor and regulate their actions and be goal-oriented and
self- directed.
- SELF-DETERMINATION is free choice of one's own acts or states
without external compulsion. We are a person because we act, and we
are aware of our actions.
 Free-will
- Enables us to do actions whenever we want to makes self determination
possible.
 Consequence
- Result or effect of an action or condition.
 Morality
- The goodness and the badness of an act.
 Externality
- The capability to reach out and interact with others and the world.
- The realization that we are not alone and that there are other persons
around us enables us to reach out and establish meaningful relationships
to others.
 Dignity
- The innate right to be valued and respected.
What is in our human nature that enables us to become person?

 They asked what enables humans to have a sense of self and the traits
that define the person. Philosophers began to ponder the essential
nature of the human being.
 The person is truly defined by his or her body and what he or she
experiences through the senses.
Ex. Physical appearances
 Philosophers believe that a person cannot be simply reduced to his or
her physical body.
Ex. When get to accident, does he become less of a person?
 Philosophers point to another unseen aspect of the human person
which along with the body, defines us a person. This tangible element is
the spirit which enables us to exercise thought, possess awareness,
interiority and the capacity to reach out to outside world and other
person.
The human person is an embodied spirit
 Philosophers consider the human person as defined by the union of
the body and the spirit.
 We cannot separate the two and they go hand-in-hand in making us
who we are.
 Embodiment enables us to do and experience all the things that make
us human person.
- When we say embodied spirit, people normally thought of the spirit

being incarnated.
- So when we say that the human person is an embodied spirit, we
specifically mean that the human person is the point of convergence
between the material and spiritual entities, that is between the body and
soul.
EMBODIMENT
- Embodiment or incarnation is defined as the giving of human form to a
spirit to make manifest or comprehensible an idea or concept,
through a physical presentation.
Example: We love not just not just with the heart nor with the brain but we
love another person with our entire being
Embodiment: The one thing that enables us to feel love and loved.
 Our experience is also a product of embodiment. The human mind

possessed information through the sense, which are experienced
through a body. Aside from perceiving our surroundings, we also react
to the things we experience emotionally. Most of our meaningful
experiences are often closely tied to emotions.
 Human embodiment allows person to attach certain feelings or
ideas not only to people, but also to objects.
 With human embodiment, physical acts are no longer purely
physical acts because the body conveys something from a
persons inner world.
TRANSCENDENCE
- Ability to surpass limits.
- Being physically limited on our abilities does not prevent us from hoping
for or aspiring to greater things.
 Our mind is an important tool that allows us to go beyond many of

our physical limits. As person, we are able to exercise our imagination
and reflection to go beyond our own thoughts and experience.
 Transcendence also means overcoming oneself or being in control
even if the body reminds us of certain tendencies.

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Human Person as an Embodied Spirit

 The human person is an important subject in Philosophy and an

TRAITS THAT DEFINE A PERSON

What is in our human nature that enables us to become person?

- When we say embodied spirit, people normally thought of the spirit

 Our experience is also a product of embodiment. The human mind

 Our mind is an important tool that allows us to go beyond many of

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