The document discusses man's relationship with nature. It divides this relationship into two parts: 1) Man's interaction with the physical environment and the ecological problems this causes, and 2) Man's mastery over nature and himself, which is related to human development issues. While man enjoys nature's resources, he also inevitably destroys them in the process. This destruction is rooted in man's selfishness and lack of social consciousness. The document suggests that while man has control over the physical world, he often lacks self-control and is a slave to his own passions. True mastery involves knowing oneself.

1. MAN AND NATURE
CARLENE S. GONZALES

2. MAN & NATURE
“ Nature is man’s
body “. – Karl Marx

3. Two separate divisions :
I. The relation of man with physical
nature and the ecological problem.
II. Man’s mastery over nature and himself
involved in the problem of human
development.

4. MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT
- Man is by nature and inclination a
destroyer, a consumer of nature’s goods;
and that in using and enjoying the fruits of
the earth to which he is entitled by Divine
Right he naturally though regretfully
destroys them in the very process.

5. Alexander Pope’s line on man
“ Born but to enjoy, and enjoying but to
destroy.”

6. THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
A fundamental law of nature’s
processes, particularly the Second law of
thermodynamics , called the Law of the
Dissipation of Energy.

7. DESTRUCTION ROOTED IN SELFISHNESS
This selfishness often surfaces as
sheer lack of social concern and
consciousness on the part of man, but its
nucleus is to be found deeper.

8. MAN’S MASTERY OVER NATURE
Simply:
It means knowing yourself, and knowing
what it means to know yourself.

9. MASTERY OVER NATURE OR SLAVERY OF
PASSIONS?
Thus it happens that while man is the master of
practically all material things in this world, he is
often a slave to his own passions. While he has
control over nature, he has no control of himself,
his inner nature. In this connection, it is wisdom to
hearken to Goethe’s words:
It is in self restraint that man
first shows himself the man.

10. SAMPALOC CHALLENG

11. 1. It means knowing yourself, and knowing what it means
to know yourself.
a) Man’s mastery over nature
b) Man and his environment
c) Man and nature
d) Destruction rooted in selfishness

12. 2. It is in self restraint that man
first shows himself the man by?
a) Karl marx
b) Alexander pope
c) Mikhail gorbachev
d) Goethe

13. a) Karl marx
b) Mikhail gorbachev
c) Alexander pope
d) Goethe
3. Who wrote that nature is man’s body.

14. 4. In using and enjoying the fruits of
the earth to which he is entitled by
a)Slavery
b)Destruction
c) Divine right
d)Nature

15. 5. This selfishness often surfaces as sheer lack of
social concern and consciousness on the part of man,
but its nucleus is to be found deeper.
a) Environment selfishness
b) Entropy selfishness
c) Destruction rooted in selfishness
d) Distruction routed in selfishness