The document discusses the relationship between the human being and their body, and the concept of human finitude and historicity. It makes three key points: 1. A human being's consciousness and existence is experienced through their body. The body allows them to see themselves and interact with the world. 2. Humans are finite beings with a limited existence, as they will ultimately die. However, one can find authenticity in accepting this finitude. 3. As historical beings, humans are shaped by time and place. Their actions and relationships establish their historicity and humanity. One's history incorporates their past, present, and influence on the future.

1. Unit III
Human Being: A
Limited Being
Reflection on my
body.
An Introduction.

2. We see man's body in its comparable
expression. It belongs to man himself,
has its own unique specificity, its
nobility and beauty.
-Karl Jaspers

3. The Relation of I and the Body.
Human being's consciousness of existence is through
his body.
And through his body he can see who he is, what he
can do, and the reflection of what he has done, or
simply the manifestation of who he is.
What you can see on your own body is your own, and
the reflection of yourself. He thinks, acts, and feels
through his body.
"My body" is the main basis for reflection and
consciousness.

4. The Relation of I and the Body.
Every time the "I" asserts something, it ascertains
the existence of this something because it is
based on this primary datum of I-existence,
meaning that it came from the way of thinking
that "My body" feels something, which if you feel
something, then it is real. If you can feel it through
smell, sight, touch, etc., and that if it is real, then
you exist.

5. The Philosopher: Gabriel Marcel(1889-1973)
A Philosopher who
emphasizes the
component of a
man, what makes a
man, a man, except
from those material
things, society, state,
and governance?

6. I Have my Body
The oneness among the body
and I can be manifested once a
person said that he owned his
body, thus "I have my body"
express a claim between the
true real union of such of the
material existence which is the
body and I.

7. I Have my Body
I cannot do without my body, for
my body is the primary thing that
I have. No one can own my body
except from me. Wherever I go,
whatever I do, I have my Body.
And no one can manipulate it
except from me.

8. I Am My Body
If my body plays basketball, then I play basketball and
that my body is not like any other that I possess like my
power, my capacity, and even my faculty of reason,
because when I am doing such things, I can leave them
behind or choose to not use them. but when I sleep, my
body and I sleep, for my body and I is one.

9. I Am My Body
My body cannot be exist alone
apart from me and that the
union of I and the body does
not create a new organism but a
whole being.
When my body does not exist,
then even me do not exist.

10. I Have My Body Vs. I am the Body
Well actually, it should not be in versus mode but a
mere support for each other. "I Have my body" means
that the I-existence possess the body and that the "I am
my body" states that since you possess your body, you
do exist and that the body and the I-existence are only
one, therefore an explanation merely supporting the
first topic, the "relation of I and the Body".

11. Transcendence and My Body
Since the body and I are only one, the connection
between the different bodies can be based on the I-
existence of every person.
Everytime the body relates with other embodied things,
I am directly and indirectly relating with other
subjectivities or with I's. thus, in my relationship with
the transcendence, I can only relate with this being
through my body.
I only encounter them because my body encounter
them.

12. Myself and the World
My existence is existential.
I exist in this world because I can see, I can hear, I can
taste, I can smell, I can feel, and I can affect other
through my body.
The relationship between the world and my body is that
the world becomes my world and world is present to
me because I am present to the world.

13. Activity
Which of the 2 views of Gabriel Marcel’s I and the Body
you agree?
I am my Body / I have my Body?
Explain to me, and give me a scenario of your view.
Provide an event in your life where you have done
something that you feel you cannot do.

14. Activity
Alin sa 2 ang pananaw ni Gabriel Marcel's I at ang
Katawan na sumasang-ayon ka?
Ako ang aking Katawan / mayroon akong Katawan?
Ipaliwanag sa akin, at bigyan mo ako ng isang senaryo
ng iyong pananaw.
Magkaloob ng isang kaganapan sa iyong buhay kung
saan nagawa mo na ang isang bagay na sa palagay mo
ay hindi mo magagawa.

15. Finitude and Historicity of Human Being.
“It is characteristic of the expression of lived
experience that its relation to the spiritual or
human content expressed in it can only be made
available to understanding within its limits.”
-Wilhelm Dilthey

16. Finitude and Historicity of Human Being.
Bago yan! Lets listen to the song of Late Francis
Magalona’s “Kalaeidoscope World”
Listen and Understand the lyrics.
Keep quiet (ayaw ko ng ingay)
Sit back and relax!

18. Finitude and Historicity of Human Being.
1. What do you notice about the song lyrics?
2. Do you think this song has anything to do
with our lesson?
3.What did you understand in the song, what
line did you like and why?

19. Finitude and Historicity of Human Being.
Finitude – the state of having limits or bounds.
(Pagiging Matapang)
Historicity – historical authenticity.
(Pagiging Tunay)
Human Being – the man itself.

20. Finitude and Historicity of Human Being.
History is not about what, where, and
when you lived.
It is all about why and how.
-Ambeth Ocampo

21. Finitude and Historicity of Human Being.
Human being are finite
being meaning, that a
certain end awaits them,
they die.
And that the existence of a
human life ends with their
death.

22. Finitude and Historicity of Human Being.
But his acceptance to that end,
or finitude, can lead him into his
authentic being.
For a human cannot be
authentic because he lived, but
he can be for how he lived in a
certain time, and in the certain
place, and in the certain
circumstances.

23. What can you say about this?

24. Human Being In time
The limit for human being is
time and a certain place.
Time and place serve as the
two boundary situations that
encounters the existence of
man.

26. Human Being In time
His actions in a certain place and time is part of
his historicity.
Human being is constituted with his past, present,
and future.
For the past was once his present, and the present
was once his future.

27. Human Being In time
And that your decision in the past can affect your
present, and if you did not do anything, it will
ruined you future.
The past, the present, and the future are
connected. One does not exist without the other.

28. Historicity of Human Being
The man is the matrix of himself, of the realities from his
past, the present and the future.
Human being is a conscious, creative, and responsible
being that can make the past realities exist in the
present moment, and can make the actualities of the
future come to actuality.

29. Historicity of Human Being
As historical being,
human establishes
relationship with
other human
being.

30. Historicity of Human Being
A human person as a historical being means that a
history is written about him, and that he makes this
history.
Simply put, the history that is written about him takes
into account all his actions thus, he himself makes his
own history.
Given the fact that this historical nature of a human
person takes into account all his actions, then it is but
natural that this historical nature of the human person
reveals his journey towards humanness.

31. Historicity of Human Being
Historicity of human being is also established through
the shared meaning of values, beliefs, and socio-cultural
worldview with other human beings.