UNDERSTANDING

THE

SELF

Self-awareness
allows us to know who and what we are, that
includes our
identity, qualities, character traits, and
values.

Self-awareness
allows us to know our relationship with others,
our fellow human beings, that includes our family,
relatives,
friends, classmates and God.

Self-awareness
allows us to identify our differences and
similarities in terms of our identity, qualities, characters
and
values.

OBJECTIVES
1

Explain
the different philosophies/ views about
man.

Compare and contrast

these philosophies/views about man.

Explain
the Christian view of man and its
implications.

THE DIFFERENT

PHILOSOPHIES-VIEWS
ABOUT

MAN

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

MAN is a complex being

above all other created beings

I cannot live locked up inside myself.

I must be open to the world and those
around me.
I must be meditative so that other people
and the forces found in the universe
can flow through me so that I can overcome
all illusion about myself and the
world and thus
discover an ultimate reality

PHILOSOPHY 1

 Im here for one purpose:

to get as much gusto out of life as I can.
Pain and suffering are evils
that must be avoided at all costs.
The main thing in life is to always feel
good.

PHILOSOPHY 2

My purpose in life is work

for the glorification of the group.
The individual has no worth as such.
Im like a cog in a big machine as I submit
my efforts to the largest efforts of the
state.

PHILOSOPHY 3

I must do whatever I can do

to increase my own freedom.
Freedom means doing what I want to do.
Hell is other people.
What is good is that which furthers my
interests.

PHILOSOPHY 4

In the light of death,

life has no real meaning.
It is a joke, the tale of an idiot signifying
nothing.

PHILOSOPHY 5

Life begins with satisfying the bodily

needs toward becoming
self-actualized persons.
All of mans needs
are in a pyramid form

PHILOSOPHY 6

I have worth. I must strive to live

a life of loving service for my fellow men,
all of whom in the last analysis
are my brothers and sisters.
Life has a final meaning which resides
outside of me, that is, in God,
and in my relationship to Jesus Christ.

PHILOSOPHY 7

PHILOSOPHY
1
ORIENTAL VIEW
OF MAN
Some Buddhists try to live a life of
gentle submissiveness to the
cosmic powers flowing in the universe,
powers which they try
to let control their destiny.

PHILOSOPHY
2
HEDONISM
Corresponds to the playboy theory of life,
where pleasure, especially of the
physical, sensual type is almost
made into god.

PHILOSOPHY
3
COMMUNISTIC VIEW OF MAN
Individual has worth only to the degree
that he helps the interest of the state.

PHILOSOPHY
4
ATHEISTIC EXISTENTIALISM
Depicts an extremely individualistic
way of looking at man,
each person is radically
separated from the all others.

PHILOSOPHY
5
NIHILISTIC VIEW OF MAN
This view maintains that man and his life
have no ultimate meaning.

PHILOSOPHY
6

MASLOWS
THEORY OF SELF

PHILOSOPHY
7

CHRISTIAN VIEW
OF MAN