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Human Person As An Embodied Spirit

Human beings are more than just physical beings - they are embodied spirits. While humans share traits with animals like emotions, humans possess unique cognitive and physical characteristics that distinguish them as persons. These include self-awareness, self-determination through free will, the ability to interact externally with others, and an innate dignity. A human's inner cognitive self and outward physical self give them traits like thinking about their identity, making choices, building relationships, and inherent worth.

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Human Person As An Embodied Spirit

Human beings are more than just physical beings - they are embodied spirits. While humans share traits with animals like emotions, humans possess unique cognitive and physical characteristics that distinguish them as persons. These include self-awareness, self-determination through free will, the ability to interact externally with others, and an innate dignity. A human's inner cognitive self and outward physical self give them traits like thinking about their identity, making choices, building relationships, and inherent worth.

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Human person as an Embodied Spirit

Man

- Is the general term, commonly used to refer to the entire human race, other terms include
humanity, mankind and humankind.

Human/ Human Being

- Refers to man as a species – Homo Sapiens or modem human beings

Person

- Is much more complex term which generally refers to a human being granted recognition of
certain rights, protection, responsibilities, and dignity, above all

Human Nature

- Refers to the characteristics that distinguish humans from all other creatures.

Look at your pet, observe it does it have emotion the same way as you have, could it fell guilty when
committed mistakes?

If your answer is NO, it means that humans are more than just animals

Human beings may share similarities with other animals but philosophers believe that human beings
more than just animals there’s something that makes human different from other beings, because there
are some characteristics and traits that human possess that are not found from other organisms

What makes human being unique?

Two general Kinds of distinguish a Human Person

1. Cognitive self – something with in and cannot be physically seen


2. Physical self – something can be seen in his or her physical appearance

Traits of Human Person

1. Self-Awareness - refers to the person having a clear perception of oneself including his or her
thoughts emotions identity and actions

Self-Awareness

Self – “inner world” or personal thoughts and Ideas


- In your inner world you can be anything
- It allows you to dream and plan for your future and
reach your goals
- Having self-awareness is not limited to himself or
herself, because the self-enable us to connect with
others or to his or her surroundings
2. Self Determination – 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. The capability to make choices and decisions based on your preferences

Self Determination

FREE WILL – enables us to do actions whenever we want to and


makes self-determination possible; the capacity to choose a course
of action from various options

CONSEQUENCES
FREE WILL ACTIONS
Or

Unintended
consequences

3. Externality - or the capability to reach out and interact with others and the world. To interact
with other people in the world

Externality

Social being – we may be able to experience interiority that is our


personal thoughts or imagination of ourselves but this is also
shared with other. We may be able to experience interiority
which Is related to our inner world but these thoughts may be
shared to others

Build relationship with others – our interactions define our


existence as person. We grow and develop from the through the
influence of the people in lives
4. Dignity - innate right to be valued and respected

Dignity

Worth / value - it is not quantifiable by numbers such as a price.


Because we do not value the person the same was as we value our
possessions such as our house bags etc.

- We are unique, unrepeatable and irreplaceable


- Is rooted in the nature of the human being. Dignity is not
defined by outside forces or characteristics such as
intelligence, skills or beauty
- The recognition of the dignity of the human person is the
bases for the recognition of human rights
- If you believe that you and all other human beings are
persons with dignity, then you must uphold human dignity in
your thoughts and actions.

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