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Human Person

in their
Environment
Week 8
Objectives
Notice things that are not in the proper place and
organize them in an aesthetic way.

Explain how human person relations are transformed by


the social systems.

Show that care for the environment contributes to


health, well-being and sustainable development.
The Human Person
in the Environment
Have you ever wondered what happens to the
things you throw away? Did you
ever think of the effects of these things on our
surroundings? If not, it is time for you
to reflect. As the popular saying goes, “what
goes around comes around,” it tells us
that for every action there will be effects to it
Human beings as a steward
has to show care for the
environment and not
destroy
it.
ENVIRONMENTAL
PHILOSOPHY
Environment philosophy is the
discipline that studies the moral
relationship of
human beings with the environment
and its non-human contents.
Three views of philosophical
environment.

Anthropocentrism - This view believes that


humans are the most important species on
the planet and they are free to transform
nature and use its resources.
Three views of philosophical
environment.
Biocentrism – believes that humans are
not the only significant species on the
planet, and that all other organisms have
inherent value and should be protected.
Three views of philosophical
environment.
Ecocentrism – this view
promotes the idea that order and balance
in nature brings about stability and
beauty.
ENVIRONMENTAL
AESTHETICS
A philosophical view that believes in maintaining
order in the environment will
bring out the natural beauty of surroundings and
contribute to the well-being of the
people and other organisms living in it (Endriga,
2017).
ANCIENT THINKERS
Anaximander - according to his
“Creation-Destruction”, the sketch of the
genesis of the world (cosmology),the evolution
of the world begins with the generation of
opposites in a certain region Nature. Nature is
indeterminate- boundless in the sense that no
boundless in the sense that no boundaries
between the warm and or the moist and dry
regions are originally
ANCIENT THINKERS
Pythagoras - he describe the universe
as living embodiment of nature’s order,
and beauty. He sees our relationships
with the universe involving biophilia (love
of other living things) and cosmophilia
(love of other living beings).
MODERN THINKERS
Immanuel Kant- “The
orderliness of nature and the
harmony of nature with
our faculties guide us toward a
deeper religious perspective”
MODERN THINKERS

Herbert Marcuse
“Human have power over
nature.”
MODERN THINKERS

George Herbert Mead


“Man have duties and
responsibilities in nature”
SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
According to the World Commission on
Environment and Development, sustainable
development defines as: “Development that
meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs.”
PRINCIPLES OF
SUSTAINABILITY
Environmental Economic Equity
Integrity efficiency

means that any human activities


this is to ensure that it refers to conserving
or economic advances should not
unduly disrupt the environment there is minimum to our natural resources so
and human communities located zero waste in using our that the future
in the area. The environment generations will still be
natural resources
should not be drastically
(Abella, 2016). able to use it (Abella,
impacted by human activities
(Abella, 2016). 2016).
THEORIES IN RADICAL
ECOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHY
Deep ecology- Arne Naess, Social Ecology- Murray Ecofeminism- It
proponent of Deep ecology,
Bookchin, proponent of assumes that
assumes that all living
Social ecology, believes male-centered view of
things possess equal value
that ecological problems nature is the root cause
and intrinsic worth regardless
can be traced to social of ecological problems.
of their usefulness or utility to
other beings.
problems.
PRUDENCE AND
FRUGALITY
How can one lessen the waste he/she is making?
How can one be more efficient
and more responsible in using natural resources?
These questions can be answered
by observing prudence and frugality towards the
environment.
PRUDENCE AND
FRUGALITY
Prudence and frugality are two of the many
virtues that can help us in addressing various
environmental problems and solving the
challenges these problems have created.
PRUDENCE AND
FRUGALITY
Prudence is the capacity to direct and discipline
one’s activities and behavior
using reason. Prudence is considered as the
first and most vital among the
four cardinal virtues, which include justice,
fortitude, and temperance.
According to
Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral
Sentiments (1759), a truly righteous person
embodies the value of prudence since it
controls one’s overindulgences and as such
is vital for a certain society.
St. Thomas Aquinas argued, prudence is not
purely
an individual virtue, but concerns the social
dimension too. It means that prudence
favors not only the private good of a certain
person, but also the common good.
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