This document discusses the key concepts of the human person as an embodied spirit. It defines important terms like person, personhood, and human nature. It explains that a human person has both a physical self and cognitive self. A human person is an embodied spirit, representing the inseparable union of body and soul. As an embodied spirit, a human person has self-awareness, can interact externally, acts with self-determination, and has inherent dignity. While humans have natural limits, they also have the ability to transcend limitations through reason and will.

1. The Human Person as an
Embodied Spirit

2. ImportantTerminologies:
•Man – the general term commonly used to
refer to the entire human race.
•Human – refers to man as species – Homo
Sapiens or modern human beings.
•Human Being – is also used to distinguish
man from another animals.

3. •Person – refers to human being granted recognition of
certain rights, responsibilities, and dignity, above all.
The totality of an individual, possessing awareness, self-
determination and capacity to interact.
•Personhood – the state of being a person.
•Human Nature – a general term refers to the deepest
and natural behavior of a person that distinguish human
from animals. A collective traits that are formed and
considered the very essence of humanity. Nobody can
be considered man without human nature.

4. What is Human Person?

5. Cognitive and the Physical Self
•The Physical Self (something can be seen in
his/her physical appearance) which deals with
the essential features of human way of life or
THE WHO OF A PERSON which includes
his/her body type, strength and appearances.

6. Cognitive and the Physical Self
•The Cognitive Self (something within and
cannot be physically seen) is the essential
components of a human persons that deals
with THE WHAT OF A PERSON which
includes human persons’ belief, desire,
dreams, and intentions.

7. What is a Human Person?
•Human person is someone with an exact origin of his/her
classification.
•From the biblical perspective, we came from Adam and
Eve.
•From science, we came from an ape under the class of
Mammalia.
A human person is typically with a body which is
tangible and has three components composed of SOUL,
MIND and SPIRIT. Also, he or she is entitled and granted
rights and privileges by the state which he or she is
legally belong.

8. •Embodied – materialized, personify,
epitomize, “kumakatawan”
•Embodied spirit – inseparable union of body
and soul

9. What is Embodied Spirit?
•Embodied spirit is an animating core living within each
of us.
•It is known to be the driving force behind what we
actually think, do and say.
•Spirit – this is intangible element enables us to exercise
thought, possess awareness, interiority, and the capacity
to reach out to the outside world and other persons.
•Embodiment – the representation or expression of
something in a tangible or visible form, enables us to do
and experience all the things that makes us human
persons.

10. Embodied Spirit
•The embodiment of the spirit particularly refers to
inseparable union of human body and soul.
•Inseparable which also means the body and soul
work together at all times. Hence, we can safely
say that “embodied spirit” that the body is not
separate from the soul, just as the soul is not
separate from the body.

11. Human Person as Embodied Spirit
1. SELF – AWARNESS – refers to person having a
clear perception of oneself, including his or her
thoughts, emotions, identity, and actions. It is the
ability of one’s consciousness to look inward thus
discovering the presence of self.
The human person is defined by a deeper
awareness that is driven by rationality or human
thought. A person is aware of both his/her
surroundings and himself or herself.

12. Human Person as Embodied Spirit
This awareness gives rise to the notion of the “self,’
which the philosophers describe as the person who
is actively aware that he or she is perceiving and
experiencing reality.
We experience interiority, that is, the quality of being
focused on one’s inner life and identity.

13. Human Person as Embodied Spirit
2. EXTERNALITY– it is the capability of the human
person to reach out and interact with others and the
world. The realization that we are not alone and that
there are indeed other people around us enables us
to reach out and establish meaningful relationships
with others.
Philosophers consider man as social being and
that a person never exist in isolation.

14. Human Person as Embodied Spirit
3. SELF-DETERMINATION – it refers to the
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.
We are persons because we act, and we are aware
of our ACTIONS.
Free will is the capacity to choose a course of
action from various alternatives.

15. Human Person as Embodied Spirit
4. DIGNITY – it is innate right to be valued and
respected. Philosophers consider all human beings
as having inherent worth or value.
Each person is worth the same as another person
in the sense that every person is priceless, unique,
unrepeatable and irreplaceable.

16. Human dignity is rooted in the nature of the
human. It means that a person has dignity simply
because of the fact that he/she is human. Dignity is
not defined by OUTSIDE FACTORS like intelligence,
beauty, skills, etc.
A person retains his dignity in spite of his or her
actions or behavior.
Dignity also drives us to seek what is good. Doing
good deeds upholds and promotes dignity of the
human person. This recognition of dignity is also the
basis for the recognition of human rights.

17. Limitations of the Human Person
The ability to surpass limits is called
transcendence, and it is also one
important traits that distinguishes the
human person from other beings in
existence.

18. Transcendence
As human persons, we have natural tendencies or
inclinations. Some of these are felt bodily
functions like hunger, fatigue, etc.
Transcendence means overcoming oneself or
being in control even if the body reminds us of
certain tendencies. Although these tendencies
are felt, the person can govern them and ensure
that they are exercised within the bounds of
reason.

19. Transcendence
•Each individual carries within himself the
possibility of transcending his limits by exerting
enough effort and perseverance.
•Philosophy gives us useful tools to explore our
limits and possibilities. The essence of
transcendence is to acknowledge our
limitations, identify possibilities for
development and change ourselves for the
better.

20. Transcendence
•Opening yourself to new experiences and ideas
is another aspect of transcendence.
•Our capacity for transcendence gives us
opportunity to work toward becoming better
versions of ourselves.
“It is through our limitations that possibilities
become real.”

22. Activity: I PICTURE OUT MYSELF
Directions: Draw a picture of yourself as a
human person. Explain your drawing based on
your truest self.