Montessori Educational Learning Centre of Ubay

Highway Tapon, Ubay, Bohol

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ITPOHPQ2L6: The Human Person in Society Teacher Josh

The human person exists to relate with others. The person is by nature a social being because he or she has a tendency to go out of
himself or herself to form bonds and relationship with others. Society and its various aspects provide supports that ensures the development of
human person.
In this module we shall learn about The Human Person in Society, this module will help you understand you the human person in
society since it contains activities that may help you reflect the importance of Human Person in Society.

Change as a Condition of Modern Life

As industry changed, social and political conditions transformed. European farmers and artisans flocked to the manufacturing centers
and became industrial workers. Cities grew quickly as the percentage of farmers in the population declined. Change from domestic industry to
the factory system meant a loss of interdependence to the worker.

This section deals with how human relations are transformed by social systems specifically, on knowledge, laws, economics, and
technology.

A. New Knowledge  “Know thyself” is the main idea of Socrates of good living.
 Socrates lived around 469 BC in Greece. His saying, “Knowledge is
virtue; ignorance is vice” is a summation of what he wants to teach about
how human beings should live a good life.
 Ignorance, as opposite of knowledge, is the source of evil. Humanity
commits evil because people do not know any better.
B. Policy Making  Plato’s Dialogues in the Republic has overshadowed all his other
Dialogues in frame, for it undoubtedly brought out many-sidedness of his
genius no other Dialogues of his can aspire to do.
 The Republic is a book on politics: however, it was found difficult to
define justice in an individual without studying the broader perspective of
the State.
 The book also became important for Eugenics and for Pedagogics
because of its refreshing discussion of poetics and aesthetics.
 Due to his idea of Good, the Republic became a great book on
metaphysics as well. The nominal purpose of the Republic is to define
“justice.” Plato begins by deciding that the citizens are to be divided into
three classes: (1) the common people (artisan class) (2) the soldiers
(warriors) (3) the guardians (rulers)
 As life has become more complex, the legal system has also grown to
the point where almost all human activities come in contact with the law
in one form or another.
C. Economic Sphere  The effects of new knowledge have been partially noticeable in the
economic sphere.
 Technical improvements have made possible a mechanization of labour
that has resulted in mass production, the rapid growth in per capita
productivity, and an increasing division of labour.
 The contrast today between the level of living in relatively modern
centuries and that in traditional societies is very marked, indeed.
D. Social Realm  Equally important are the changes that have taken place in the social
realm.
 Traditional societies are typically closed and rigid in their structure. This
complex and interrelated series of changes in humanity’s way of life is
generally known as “modernization.”
 The view that globalization proceeds along a continuum of
modernization dominated social scientific thought on global development
in the thirty or so years after the Second World War (Germain 2000).
Modernization
- Interrelated changes on humanity’s way of living.
- Part of universal experience.
- It is one that holds great hope for the welfare of humanity.
- Destroyed traditional patterns in life, which had evolved through the
centuries many humane values.
E. Technology  The more society is influenced by technology, the more we need the
social, ethical and technological, and scientific aspects of each decision
and choice (Germain 2000).
 In the present era, humanity does not live according to natural cycles
regulated by natural rhythms anymore (Germain 2000). Instead, it is
governed by a “second nature” that is an artificial environment
characterized by the results of technology.
 The modern era is characterized by new inventions that sometimes
cannot followed by most people, because technology is not only the copy
of the “first nature” but a replacement of nature itself.
 The advancement of technology, its success in developing itself, is faced
with the inability and lack of humanistic knowledge to answer the real
problems of masses such as poverty, ignorance, and famine, which
undermined the position of humanistic science and efforts to develop.
 Modern people also cannot isolate themselves and live without
 technology. More and more cases show that technology has encroached
upon all matters that in the past were considered to be the right of God in
His creation. Science and Technology had functioned as the “saviour”
with the power to set us free.
 They saved and liberated human beings from ignorance,
underdevelopment, and poverty.
F. On (Women’s) Friendships  Women’s friendship has a unique quality that may only exist between
women. There’s sexual attraction between a man and a woman (eros),
which is another completely different thing.
 Perhaps, only another woman can really feel in her guts what it meant to
be a woman, according to joy carol (2006) in her book, The Fabric of
Friendship. Women’s friendship are special. Girls, and later woman, can
discuss with each other anything or everything-whether dreams, fears,
children, boyfriends, or dying.

Evaluate the Transformation of Human Relationships by Social Systems and How Societies Transform Individual Human Beings

Science has greatly influenced the picture we have of human existence and what is essential to humanity. Therefore, the difficulty to the
period of rapid change challenges us to discover more about what is fundamental to our existence.
Technology should not be a fate one must choose for or against, but a challenge to our creativity (e.g. Political and social). It would be
then possible to create new science and technology that would place us in harmony, rather than in conflict with nature. Nature would be treated
as another subject instead as mere raw material. Human beings would learn to achieve their aims through realizing nature’s inherent potentialities
instead of laying it waste for the sake of power and profit.

ACTIVITY 1: BRAIN WRITING!

Directions: Using the space provided below students are given time to come up with their own ideas individually about this short poem “A
Tribute
to Our First Friend: Our Mothers.”

The bravest battle that ever was fought;

Shall I tell you where and when?
On the maps of the world you will find it not;
It was fought by the mothers of men.
- Joaquin Miller, The Bravest battle

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ACTIVITY 2: WHAT I CAN DO!

DIRECTIONS: Complete the table below. Give an example of individual’s behavior and write its societal norms.

INDIVIDUAL’S BEHAVIOR SOCIETAL NORMS

Activity 3: ESSAY!

Direction: In a form of essay, explain how the following developments affect your way of living in society (Note: Human application should be
included.)

1. In three to five sentences, define modernization?

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2. What is globalization? How does this affect us?
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3. What words come into your mind when you hear the word modernization and globalization?
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ACTIVITY 4: ASSESSMENT!
Direction: Read each item carefully and write the correct letter of the answer on the space provided before each number.

______1. Who is the proponent of “Know thyself”?

a. Socrates b. Plato c. Aristotle d. Albert Einstein

______2. This book became a great book on metaphysics.

a. The Revolution b. The Republic c. The Communist d. The Idealist

_______3. Which of the following is NOT part of three classes?

a. The common people b. The soldiers c. The priest d. The guardians

_______4. It is one that holds great hope for the welfare of humanity.
a. Industrialization b. Revolution c. Globalization d. Modernization

_______5. The man who call for meditative thinking or philosophical reflection that has a very important role in this connection.
a. Martin Buber b. Marin Heidegger c. Martin Luther d. Immanuel Kant

_______6. It is the replacement of nature itself.

a. Science b. Technology c. Economics d. Education

_______7. Complete the saying of Socrates “Knowledge is ______, ignorance is vice".

a. Values b. Guidance c. Important d. Virtue

_______8. Who is the author of the book “The Republic”?

a. Aristotle b. Plato c. Socrates d. Newton

_______9. Who is the author of “The Fabric of Friendship”?

a. Immanuel Kant b. Johannes Kepler c. Joy Carol d. Rene Descartes

_______10. Who cites that the strong female relationships lead to happiness and healthier lives?
a. Martin Buber b. Carol Wojtyla c. Martin Heidegger d. Joy Carol

_______11. What is the nominal purpose of the book Republic?

a. Justice b. Education c. Love d. Joy

_______12. The common people are composing of _______.

a. Warriors b. Rulers c. Artisan d. Priest

_______13. The view that globalization proceeds along a continuum of modernization dominated social scientific thought on global
development in the thirty or so years after the _________.
a. First World War b. Second World War c. Third World War d. Fourth World War

_______14. The book also became important for ____________ because of its refreshing discussion of poetics and aesthetics.
a. Chemistry and Physics b. Eugenics and Pedagogics c. Philosophy and Psychology d. Astronomy and Physics

________15. Socrates lived around 469 BC in _________.

a. South America b. North America c. Greece d. Italy