Towards being human is a topic from values education subject of college of education students, man as a being at the world, man as a being through others, man as a being with others, man as a being for himself, man as a being for others

1. TOWARDS
BEING HUMAN
“What does it mean to be a man?”
“What is really the nature of man?”
“What does it mean to be a person?”

2. By nature, man is a worldly being.
• He cannot be conceived and be
born, and cannot live and die,
except in the world he lives in.
• His existence is attuned to the
world.
• His body has a purpose in the world,
subject to the laws of the world.

3. “Man has to relate
himself to his
body.”

4. “There is some distance
between man and his
body, however there is
also some kind of
intimacy.”
-Gabriel Marcel
(the relationship is somewhere “in between”)

5. “Man is not merely his
body for he is spirit as
well.”
Man is not his body, he
is somebody. Man is not
a thing, he is someone.

6. MAN AS A BEING-AT-THE-WORLD
• Man’s existence is not a passive
existence in the world.
he does not only live, he also
acts through labor
he has the ability to: appreciate,
work over the world, transcend,
and break through it

7. MAN AS A BEING-AT-THE-WORLD
• Man exists as a being at work in
the world.
world becomes fruit of his labors
BASIC TOOL: inner self
(conscious mind, subconscious
mind, innermost thoughts, and
innermost feelings)

8. MAN AS A BEING-AT-THE-WORLD
• Man’s brain reveals the working
of his inner self.
3 parts of the brain:
*left brain –logical brain, controls
right side of body, seat of
consciousness about external
environment

9. MAN AS A BEING-AT-THE-WORLD
*right brain –intuitive powers,
controls left part of body,
responsible for insights, considers
external relative to inner self
*forebrain –man’s conscious power
decides which brain to use,
power of man to run his own life

10. MAN AS A BEING-TROUGH-OTHERS
• It is “these others” that brought
him into existence and maintains
his early existence as a being-in-
the-world.
• It is a fact that man has to live 9
months in the womb before he is
“thrown” into the outside world.

11. MAN AS A BEING-TROUGH-OTHERS
• Outside, he needs continuous
loving, care, attention, and
perfection of his mother & father
• First few years of man’s life are
very important (period when he
assimilates many things summed
up in what is called culture)

12. MAN AS A BEING-TROUGH-OTHERS
• Man cannot grow up, work
completely and efficiently except
through others
• His sickness, recovery, work and
even death will become
meaningful only when considered
in reference to others

13. MAN AS A BEING-WITH-OTHERS
sociability and gregariousness of
man
“No man can ever be regarded as
an island. He has to live with
others.”
various needs of man point to
his social nature

14. MAN AS A BEING-WITH-OTHERS
Psychologists emphasize man’s 3 A’s as
major needs:
-Attention
-Affection
-Acceptance
Every individual has hierarchy of needs
which should be met through and with
others if he is to develop humanly.

15. MAN AS A BEING-WITH-OTHERS
• Hierarchy of Needs (Abraham
Maslow)
hierarchy within you, within your
day-to-day experiences
1. Physiological/ Physical Needs
-primary/ short-term basic needs
such as food, water, warmth

16. MAN AS A BEING-WITH-OTHERS
2. Safety Needs
-longer-term needs/ drive of an
individual to protect himself from
variety of dangers/ risks
-security, order, stability, freedom
from threat, protection from
physical harm

17. MAN AS A BEING-WITH-OTHERS
3. Social Needs
-the way individuals act/ behave
with other members of their
group
-need to love and belong,
affiliation, acceptance and
relationships

18. MAN AS A BEING-WITH-OTHERS
4. Esteem Needs
-people’s drive towards proving
value, both to themselves and
the rest of the group
-recognized & admired, prestige &
power, self-respect, respect for
others, self-confidence

19. MAN AS A BEING-WITH-OTHERS
5. Self-actualization
-need for self-fulfilment and self-
realization
-desire to experience even deeper
fulfilment by realizing/actualizing
more and more of human
potential, abilities, and skills

20. MAN AS A BEING-WITH-OTHERS
6. Self-transcendence
-desire to go beyond ordinary human level
of consciousness & experience oneness
with greater whole, higher truth, or
whatever that may be
-seek some kind of experience, something
extraordinary, unite with and serve that
which is beyond the individual self: unity
of all being

21. MAN AS A BEING-FOR-HIMSELF

22. MAN AS A BEING-FOR-OTHERS
Be Happy You are Loved (Robert H. Schuller)
1) Even if you have lost everything –
someone, somewhere needs your love.
2) Even if you have failed in love –
someone, somewhere, can give you
the courage to try again.
3) Even if you have failed in life –
someone, somewhere, cares.

23. MAN AS A BEING-FOR-OTHERS
Be Happy You are Loved (Robert H. Schuller)
4) Even if you are ridiculed and rejected
–someone, somewhere, accepts you.
5) Even if life has been unfair to you –
someone, somewhere, needs you the
way you are.
6) Even if you are poor –someone,
somewhere will treasure you.

24. MAN AS A BEING-FOR-OTHERS
Be Happy You are Loved (Robert H. Schuller)
7) Even if you are ridiculed and rejected
–someone, somewhere, accepts you.
8) Even if life has been unfair to you –
someone, somewhere, needs you the
way you are.
9) Even if you are poor –someone,
somewhere will treasure you.

25. MAN AS A BEING-FOR-OTHERS
Elements of Love:
1) Knowledge of the Person
-it is impossible for anyone to love someone
he does not know.
-what is needed is not so much the external
qualities, it is more of the other qualities
like the strengths and weaknesses of the
person and his inner self.

26. MAN AS A BEING-FOR-OTHERS
Elements of Love:
2) Faith or Trust in the Person
-the “risk” in the process of living
-any person who is in love is willing to take
this “risk,” or what others describe to be
a “reasonable risk”

27. MAN AS A BEING-FOR-OTHERS
Elements of Love:
3) Hope
-element needed although one knows the
possibility of his love being betrayed or
disappointed, there must be hope that this
would never happen
-while principal motive in loving should be the
good or welfare of person loved, genuine
love cannot be completely selfless

28. MAN AS A BEING-FOR-OTHERS
Elements of Love:
4) Care/ concern for the good of the other
-while it is true that man is not capable of
completely showing selfless love, he is,
however, capable of making the person of
the beloved the motive for his love
“I love you because you are you, not because of what
you can give me.” or “I need you because I love
you” or “I love you because I need you” (To love is
truly to accept the uniqueness of another person.)

29. MAN AS A BEING-FOR-OTHERS
Elements of Love:
5) Respect
-it is because of respect that a person who loves
is able to be truly responsive to the person
loved
6) Responsibility
-should not be equated with duties but should be
more correlated with maturity which
requires giving of proper responses to
persons, things, and situations

30. MAN AS A BEING-FOR-OTHERS
Justice and Law:
Justice compels a man not to take away from
another what belongs to the latter. Love, on
the other hand, invites him to give to the
other what belongs to the lover.
If a man cannot truly promote the welfare of
another, he must at least not impede his
growth. (justice is the minimum
requirement of love)

31. MAN AS A BEING-FOR-OTHERS
Although love is objectively speaking, a
greater virtue than justice, it must be
stressed that there can be no genuine love
and charity where there is no justice.
“Love without justice is fake.”