Philosophy of Man

1. NATURAL COMPLEMENTARITY
OF MAN AND WOMAN

2. The shared perception
of reality between or
among two or more
individuals

3. Intersubjectivity
requires
accepting
Differences
and not to
Impose on
others

4. • We look at our
differences and
may have “labels”
toward one
another
• We have collected
and given labels
ourselves towards
others.

5. •Labels both NEGATIVE and
POSITIVE
•We are STILL DIFFERENT
INDIVIDUALS, different
appearances, characteristics,
attitudes, beliefs, and point of
views.

7. • We could go beyond the labels,
redesign it to something new.
• If the negative labels can be
contagious, so can positive ones.
• We must focus on the positive
for these labels can strengthen
relationships

8. INTERSUBJECTIVITY AS ONTOLOGY
•Martin Buber’s and Karol
Wojtyla’s views will be used as
the main framework in
understanding intersubjectivity.
•Both are influenced by
religious background

9. INTERSUBJECTIVITY AS ONTOLOGY
• one must not lose to one’s
sight
•The social dimension is “We
Relation”
•The interpersonal is “I-You”

10. KAROL WOJTYLA
•Saint John Paul II
was born in
Wadowice, Poland.
He was elected as
the 264th pope.
•He was an architect
of Communism’s
demise in Poland

11. KAROL WOJTYLA
•He maintains that the human person
is the one who exists and acts
(conscious acting, has a will, has
self-determination).
•Action reveals, the nature of the
human agent.

12. WOJTYLA’S THEORY OF PARTICIPATION
(WE-RELATION)
Participation – the ability of the
person to exist and act together
with others without losing
oneself as he moves towards his
self-fulfillment

13. PARTICIPATION is the
essence of human
person. Through this a
person is able to fulfill
one’ self. ORIENTED
TOWARD RELATION
AND SHARING FOR
THE COMMON GOOD.

14. WOJTYLA’S THEORY OF PARTICIPATION
(WE-RELATION)
As St. Augustine of Hippo said,
“No human being should become
an end to him/herself. We are
responsible to our neighbors as we
are to our own actions.”

15. WOJTYLA’S THEORY OF PARTICIPATION
(WE-RELATION)
We participate in the communal
life. Our notion of the “neighbor”
and “fellow member” is by
participating in the humanness of
the other person.

16. “DO NOT BE AFRAID TO TAKE A
CHANCE ON PEACE, TO TEACH
PEACE, TO LIVE IN PEACE…”
“STUPIDITY IS A GIFT FROM GOD BUT
ONE MUSTN’T MISUSE IT.”
-Karol Wojtyla

17. MARTIN BUBER
“The world is not
comprehensible, but it is
embraceable: through the
embracing of one of its
beings.”
― Martin Buber
“Living is encounter.“
-
-Martin Buber

18. MARTIN BUBER
A Jewish
existentialist
philosopher
born in Vienna,
in his work I and
Thou ( Ich und
Du),

19. MARTIN BUBER’S I AND THOU
•He conceives the human person in
his/her wholeness, totality, concrete
existence and relatedness to the
world.
•His philosophy is about the human
person as a subject, who is a being
different from things or from objects.

20. MARTIN BUBER’S I-IT
•This relationship is a person
to thing, subject to object that
is merely experiencing and
using; lacking directedness
and mutuality (feeling,
knowing, acting)

21. MARTIN BUBER’S I-YOU
The human person experiences
his wholeness not in relation to
one’s self, but in virtue of his
relation to another self.
Person-person, subject-subject
relation

22. MARTIN BUBER’S I AND THOU

23. MARTIN BUBER’S I AND THOU
Not just being in the
world but being with
others, or being in
relation.

24. We are unique
Differences are not hindrance
to intersubjective relationship
communicate relate
Perceive each other

25. The
Personhood
of Man and
Woman
 That both man and woman are equally
persons is luminously expressed in Genesis 1,
even though it does not use the term person.
 But the text makes it clear that human beings,
male and female, are persons, for it affirms
that "God created man [ha ’adam] in his
image; in the divine image he created him,
male and female he created them" (Gen. 1:27).

26.  Note that the Hebrew word, ’adam, is not
used here as a proper name for the first human
male, as it was in later texts of Genesis, but
rather as the generic term to designate Man,
a human being, whether male or female.
 Being created in the image of God, Man, male
and female, is a person, i.e., a being endowed
with intellect and will, with the capacity to
come to know the truth, to make free choices,
and by so doing to be self-determining.

27. The truth that woman, like man, is a
person is expressed more poetically in
Genesis 2.There the man, who is initially
identified by the generic term for human
being, adam, is created first.
But it is "not good" for him to be alone.
The other living creatures of the earth,
however, are not equal to him; they are
not worthy to be his companion, his
partner.

28. "Defining"
Man and
Woman,
Male and
Female
By virtue of their sexuality--which, we
must remember, is not something
merely biological but something that
"concerns the innermost being of the
human person"--men and women are
summoned to give themselves to others
and to receive them, and to do so in a
unique and exclusive way in marriage.

29. They are likewise summoned to be
outgoing and superabundant in their
giving and to bring others peace
and rest by receiving them within
themselves.
But men and women, males and
females, give superabundantly and
receive in peaceful tranquility in
strikingly different modalities.

30. Goal 5 ofUN
SDG:Achieve
gender
equality and
empower all
women and
girls
Gender equality is not only a fundamental
human right, but a necessary foundation for a
peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.
Women and girls, everywhere, must have
equal rights and opportunity, and be able to
live free of violence and discrimination.
Women’s equality and empowerment is one
of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, but
also integral to all dimensions of inclusive and
sustainable development.

31.  Insofar as they differ in their sexuality, men
and women manifest major differences in their
social behavior.
 Women, as many studies point out, tend
toward responding to situations as entire
persons, with their minds, bodies, and
emotions integrated, whereas men tend to
respond in a more diffuse and differentiated
manner.
 Again, women are, on the whole, more
oriented toward helping or caring for personal
needs, whereas men, on the whole, are more
inclined to formulate and pursue long-range
goals and to achieve particular sets of
prescribed ends.

32. WHAT DOES MEN
SAY ABOUT
GENDER
QUALITY?

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was appointed
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Goodwill
Ambassador in
July 2014