PHILOSOPHY OF MAN

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PHILOSOPHY OF MAN

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Definition of Philosophy

• Philosophy is a thinking mode or a method which
  asks questions about the nature and essence of
  various realities appearing on our earth (Laehy,
  2008)
• Philosophy concerns with questions such as
• What is the meaning of life and activity, freedom
  and love?. What does one speak about universe,
  man, God?

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Philosophy of Man?

• Philosophy of man which considers what man
  himself means. It tries to articulate as best as
  it can what the being or creature we call man
  really is.
• In the past, Philosophy of Man called
• Philosophical of psychology or rational
  psychology
• Term psychology is difficult bec etymologically
  psychology is a science of the mind.
• Philosophical anthropology (anthropos in Greek
  means man. It appears more exact bec it denotes
  the whole human being, spirit and body, mind and
  flesh.

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Difficulty of Philosophy of Man

• Two different perspectives a) Sciences and
• b) philosophers
• Specific Sciences dealing with man from
  perspectives his origin, physical
  characteristics, ways of conduct, achievement,
  diseases and anomalies. (scientific discipline
  biology, history, psychology, embryology,
  anthropology, sociology theology, etc)

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• Philosophers conceptions
• Plato and Plotinos consider man a divine human
  being
• Epicuros and Lucretius consider man a
  short-lived creature, born by chance and then
  gone altogether
• Descartes human freedom resembles the freedom
  of God
• Voltaire human beings does not essentially
  differ from superior animals.

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• Hobbes human beings are aggressive and evil in
  action
• Rousseau human beings good by nature.
• The different conceptions of those
  philosophers have brought out the philosophy
  of man is a neccessity and possibility of study.

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Human Nature and Its Characteristics

• Human nature and its characteristics are as the
  object of Philosophy of Man
• The existence of nature and characteristics
  distinguish human beings from other creatures.
• Typical characteristics of human conduct are
  different, eg. Africans and Asians.
• Men of the same culture may have different
  concepts about morally good and morally bad