12th

Grade

Introduction to the
Philosophy of the
Human Person
Lesson 1 Doing Philosophy
“The unexamined life,
is not worth living”

- Socrates
Socrates
- (born c. 470 BCE, Athens
[Greece]—died 399 BCE,
Athens)
- ancient Greek philosopher
whose way of life, character,
and thought exerted a profound
influence on Western philosophy.
- Socrates was a widely
recognized and controversial
figure in his native Athens, so
much so that he was frequently
mocked in the plays of comic
dramatists.
- Although Socrates himself wrote nothing,
he is depicted in conversation in
compositions by a small circle of his
admirers—Plato and Xenophon first among
them. He is portrayed in these works as a
man of great insight, integrity, self-
mastery, and argumentative skill. The
impact of his life was all the greater
because of the way in which it ended: at
age 70, he was brought to trial on a
charge of impiety and sentenced to death
by poisoning (the poison probably being
hemlock) by a jury of his fellow citizens.
Socratic Method
- Elenchus
- way of eliciting the truth by question and answer
- The hard questions we throw to ourselves are not
meant to confuse; they must be welcomed as healthy
ways of communing with the complex reality of our
world.
- True learning is not a blind obedience to the teacher.
- We do not simply follow or accept things.
- True learning is always dialogical.
- Both teacher and student are a part of the active
search for knowledge.
- To listen not only with an open mind, but more
importantly, with a humble heart.
● Philosophy is the eternal quest for the truth.
● Docta Ignorantia
● To know that you don’t know
● “Who am I”
● “What make you, you?”
● Man is not a raw datum of nature
● We are not just a by-product of our biological
environment.
● We are who we are on the basis of true wisdom.
● Socrates gave up his life teaching this truth.
● This is what an ethical life means.
• True knowledge must lead to
real virtue
• Arete
• The virtue of perfection
• Moral Wisdom not intellectual
wisdom
• Education is the perfection of
the human person (the whole
person)
 What is Philosophy?
 Greek word “phylos” and “sophia”
 Phylos – “to love”
 Sophia – “wisdom”
 The term is often defined as “love of wisdom”
 “the early Greek thinkers called themselves wise men”
 Phytagoras
 “simply wanted to call himself a lover of wisdom, that is, a
philosopher.”
 Chris John-Terry
 Phytagoras thought that no man could possess wisdom,
which is a most comprehensive and profound knowledge
of things
 WISDOM was the privileged possession only of God.

 Why should we value
Wisdom?
 Can we disregard the truth and actually say that philosophy does not really matter?
 To say that philosophy does not have any meaning or role is to admit that one has to put a
critical question.
 By merely asking, one must have already philosophized.
 The important thing to consider is to actually ask the questions about the truth, which is the
real subject matter of philosophizing.
 To be able to philosophize, the individual must go into the nearness of being.
 The question of being brings us into the heart and soul of reality – human life.

 Philosophy
 Accounts for that method of thinking that involves questioning, critical analysis, reflection,
and rational argumentation.
 Anybody of knowledge, including the early natural sciences that encompassed biology,
astronomy, and physics.
Aristotle

● Pioneered the study of those

fields of knowledge.
● Philosophy
● Broad so insofar as it provides
a full view of reality beyond
any categorization.
● “All men by nature desire to
know.”
 Holistic
Partial point
Perspectiv
ofreality
• Human view from
e specific vantage
• Unity of thought and
points
experience
• Consider life from
• Oneness and
different dimensions
relatedness
• To look into specific
• One values what it
problems and address
means as a person
the same using the
• Finding a sense of
sophistication of a
purpose or goal that
method that is
unifies the meaning of
employed by a
every human activity
particular body of
knowledge
● True education is meant to train the body and soul.
● Knowledge, is about educating the human person as one
whole – the person as a person.
● The person is a being who is rational.
● PRHONESIS
● the desire for knowledge must lead to a life-long process, in
search for practical wisdom
● EUDAIMONIA
● wisdom leads us to a life of real virtue and in the end, to a
life of real happiness.
● The truth that humans are looking for is the truth about what
it means to be human
● How as human beings, we might be able to act more freely
 What exactly is the meaning
of human Life?

The French thinker Gabriel Marcel cites the

young Spanish philosopher Julian Marias:

… when we are talking about human life, the

verb “to live” cannot have its meaning so strictly
circumscribed; the notion of human life cannot
be reduced to that of the harmonious
functioning of a certain number of organs…
- The truth of human existence is a question that
most of us will be concerned with for as we grow
more mature.
- Man has existential concerns
- What indeed does it actually mean to have a life?

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live”

- Jean Paul Sartre
 What
is an
Insigh
t?
Insight – FR. Roque
• Fr. Roque Ferriols
• Filipino Philosopher
• “an insight is a kind of seeing in the mind.”
• To realize the meaning of something
• Something that emerges when we re thrown in to a situation.
• Abstraction
• The process of arriving at an insight
• Johann
• “being as object may be described in general as that which can
properly be known abstractly or conceptually; it is that which
confronts thought and presents itself as not depending on one’s
thinking for it’s intelligible content.”
• One finds that in doing a conceptual analysis, one is able to look
into the various aspects of objects.
• “Why do certain insights resist all the efforts to explore them
completely? Because these insights bring us into the very heart
of reality and reality is superabundantly rich. The richness of
Albert Einstein
• “What an extraordinary situation is that of us mortals!
Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he
20% knows not, though sometimes he thinks he feels it.”
• When there is that effort to bring ourselves closer to the
35% truth and thus, into the real value of the reality around us,
we do what is called the philosophical act – we begin to
truly think.
• Philosophical act
45% • not merely analyze the meaning of words, but is
grounded in experience.
• Our knowledge of things does not simply come from the
abstraction or the mere analysis of concepts.
• Rather, it is only in the realm of lived experience in which
we may enter into a dialogue with our inner selves.
• Meaning is anchored in our day to day existence.
• “philosophy must self-consciously place itself in the context and
service of human life of which it is a function and whose direction
it has to grasp.”
• Robert Johann
• We can also
 Timeline
Venus is the second planet from the Sun

Greece

China

Babylon

Egypt
2500 BC 1500 BC 500 BC 500 AC

3000 BC 2000 BC 1000 BC 0 1000 AC

 Use these Percentages

75% 50% 25%

Saturn Mars Neptune

Despite being red, Neptune is the
Saturn is a gas giant
Mars is actually a cold farthest planet from
and has several rings
place the Sun
 0
3
Archeology
Here is where your presentation begins
 Great Sphinx of Giza
Constructi Feature
on: s
2630–2610 BC
Jupiter is a gas giant. It's also
Measures: the fourth-brightest object in
the night sky
73 x 20m
Venus has a beautiful name
and is the second planet
Description from the Sun. It’s terribly hot
Mercury is the closest planet
Despite being red, Mars is
to the Sun and the smallest actually a cold place. It's full
one in the Solar System of iron oxide dust
 Famous Discoveries

S. XVIII S. XIX S. XX

Tutankhamun's
Egypt Rosetta Stone
tomb

China Terracotta Army

Rome Pompeii Vicarello Cups

 Egypt
Images reveal large amounts
of data, so remember: use an
image instead of a long text.
Your audience will appreciate
it
 Map Of Discoveries
Neptu
Jupiter
It’s the ne
Neptune is
biggest the farthest
planet in the planet from
Solar System the Sun

Pluto Saturn
Saturn is a
Pluto is now
gas giant and
considered a
has several
dwarf planet
rings
 2,000 3,000
Venus has a beautiful name Mars is a very cold place

45,000
Saturn is a gas giant
75,654,97
2
Big numbers catch your audience’s attention
 Exercise 3
The Egyptian gods
02 03 01 were often depicted
as...
R G
The civilization began
01 Z 02 in this Italian Peninsula

The Parthenon was

04 E
03 built by the...

...was a civilization of
04 ancient North Africa
Economi
es
You can enter a
subtitle here if you
need it
04
 Multimedia

You can replace the image on the screen with your own work. Right-click on
it and then choose "Replace image" (in Google Slides) or "Change Picture"
(PPT)
 Greece

Mercury Jupiter Venus

Mercury is the Jupiter is a gas giant Venus has a
closest planet to the and the biggest beautiful name and
Sun and the smallest planet in the Solar is the second planet
one System from the Sun

Saturn Mars
It was named after It's full of iron oxide
the Roman god of dust, which gives the
wealth and planet its reddish
agriculture cast
 Egypt

Saturn Mars
Saturn has several
It's full of iron oxide
rings. It's composed
dust, which gives the
mostly of hydrogen
planet its reddish cast
and helium

Jupiter Mercury
It is the closest planet
Jupiter is a gas giant
to the Sun and the
and the biggest planet
smallest one in the
in the Solar System
Solar System
Desktop
Software
You can replace the image
on the screen with your
own work. Just delete this
one, add yours and center
it properly
Our Teachers

Timmy
Jimmy
You can replace the
image on the screen
with your own

Jenna Doe
You can replace the
image on the screen
with your own
Thanks!
Do you have any
questions?
[email protected]
+91 620 421 838
yourcompany.com

CREDITS: This presentation template was

created by Slidesgo, including icons by
Flaticon, and infographics & images by
Freepik
Please keep this slide for attribution
History Pack Icon
Alternative Resources
Alternative Resources
Here’s an assortment of alternative resources within
the same style of this template

Photos
● Apple books chair garden
● Facade stock exchange with classical architecture
● Compass near old maps
● Oriental ornaments
● Scene from morocco
● Spices market morocco
● Charming young man standing near rock formati
on
● Woman posing desert ruins blue sky
● Man taking photos castle
● High angle man visiting castle
 Resources
Did you like the resources on this template? Get them
for free at our other websites:

Photos
● Medium shot smiley woman outdoors
● Handsome young man holiday
● Full frame shot empty paper background
● Full frame shot old blank paper backdrop
● High angle view compass world map
● Animal habitat
● Desert landscape with ruins blue sky
● Person holding magnifying glass map showing peruvian ci
ties
● Ancient city fortress desert landscape
● Animal habitat
 Instructions for use (free users)
In order to use this template, you must credit Slidesgo by keeping the Thanks slide.

You are allowed to:

● Modify this template.
● Use it for both personal and commercial purposes.

You are not allowed to:

● Sublicense, sell or rent any of Slidesgo Content (or a modified version of Slidesgo Content).
● Distribute this Slidesgo Template (or a modified version of this Slidesgo Template) or include it in a database or in
any other product or service that offers downloadable images, icons or presentations that may be subject to
distribution or resale.
● Use any of the elements that are part of this Slidesgo Template in an isolated and separated way from this
Template.
● Delete the “Thanks” or “Credits” slide.
● Register any of the elements that are part of this template as a trademark or logo, or register it as a work in an
intellectual property registry or similar.

For more information about editing slides, please read our FAQs or visit Slidesgo School:
https://slidesgo.com/faqs and https://slidesgo.com/slidesgo-school
 Instructions for use (premium users)
In order to use this template, you must be a Premium user on Slidesgo.

You are allowed to:

● Modify this template.
● Use it for both personal and commercial purposes.
● Hide or delete the “Thanks” slide and the mention to Slidesgo in the credits.
● Share this template in an editable format with people who are not part of your team.

You are not allowed to:

● Sublicense, sell or rent this Slidesgo Template (or a modified version of this Slidesgo Template).
● Distribute this Slidesgo Template (or a modified version of this Slidesgo Template) or include it in a database or in
any other product or service that offers downloadable images, icons or presentations that may be subject to
distribution or resale.
● Use any of the elements that are part of this Slidesgo Template in an isolated and separated way from this
Template.
● Register any of the elements that are part of this template as a trademark or logo, or register it as a work in an
intellectual property registry or similar.

For more information about editing slides, please read our FAQs or visit Slidesgo School:
https://slidesgo.com/faqs and https://slidesgo.com/slidesgo-school
 Fonts & colors used
This presentation has been made using the following fonts:

Fondamento
(https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fondamento)

Commissioner
(https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Commissioner)

#722b1b #a75441 #e29887 #fddecb #f5c7bb

 Storyset
Create your Story with our illustrated concepts. Choose the style you like the most, edit its colors, pick the
background and layers you want to show and bring them to life with the animator panel! It will boost your
presentation. Check out How it Works.

Pana Amico Bro Rafiki Cuate

 Use our editable graphic resources...
You can easily resize these resources without losing quality. To change the color, just ungroup the resource
and click on the object you want to change. Then, click on the paint bucket and select the color you want.
Group the resource again when you’re done. You can also look for more infographics on Slidesgo.
 JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE

PHASE 1

Task 1

Task 2

PHASE 2

Task 1

Task 2

JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL

PHASE
1

Task 1

Task 2
 ...and our sets of editable icons
You can resize these icons without losing quality.
You can change the stroke and fill color; just select the icon and click on the paint bucket/pen.
In Google Slides, you can also use Flaticon’s extension, allowing you to customize and add even more icons.
Educational Icons Medical Icons
Business Icons Teamwork Icons
Help & Support Icons Avatar Icons
Creative Process Icons Performing Arts Icons
Nature Icons
SEO & Marketing Icons