HUMAN PERSON

and
HUMAN DIGNITY
Prepared by:
E. M. JAMILLA
UST Institute of Religion
 “Man is an inviolable
reality, unique and
irreplaceable, deserving
respect, service and
devotion. He is the
fundamental norm,
center and crown,
author and subject of all
social institutions.”
(RH 14)
 Man is more precious for what
he is than for what he has.

Since man is a person and the subject of any action, there is

no human reason in the scientific, social, political, or
economic order which could ever justify a change in his
function or status from subject to object.
NATURE and ROOT of
HUMAN DIGNITY
1. Being created according to God’s image
and likeness underlies the freedom and
dignity of the human person. He is a
reflection of the divine image.

Man can never be considered

as an instrument of others.
 2. Man is the Man is the
lord of all center of
creation and he creation
has the around whom
responsibility to all other
develop created creatures
things. revolve.
3. Man is destined to be with his creator.

Because man is destined for God, he is not

subordinate to terrestrial things. He is above and
over machine,money and technical progress.
 4. Man is an embodied spirit.

Man has needs both material and spiritual. His

earthly actions are intimately tied up with his
spiritual life.
 5. Man has the innate capacity to do what
is good and just.

Though he has the tendency to commit injustice and

is capable of evil, he is at the same time redeemed by
God by virtue of Christ’s death on the cross.
6. Man is rational endowed with reason and intellect.

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Man’s rationality gives him the capacity to know,

understand, and comprehend what is true, what is
good, and what is beautiful.
7. Man has
free will.

Free will enables man to pursue what is perceived as

good and true. His freedom to behave according to
conscience constitute the most forceful expression of his
inalienable dignity.
8. Man is both individual and social by nature.

Man’s social nature stems from his inherent

faculty which orients him to communicate and
commune with others in unity and brotherhood.
 Man’s Dignity Demands Reverence

Reverence for man’s dignity resists all actions that

manipulate man, violate him, make inconsiderate use of him
as a means in achieving economic, social or political goals.
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