Term Paper

“God created us all with his love, to be equally treated.

“No human being is superior over another.”

― Ellen J. Barrier

“When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.”

― Criss Jami

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

-Saint Augustine

The human person is a mystery, that all of us, to some degree, try to unravel.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

-Bertrand Russell

“Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.”

― Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians

An unexamined life is not worth living.

-Socrates

Know thyself

-Socrates

Introduction

Philosophy of man is a philosophical exploration about the nature of the human person. The basic questions in philosophy of man are: Who am I? What am I? These questions are very important because our answer to these questions reflect how we view ourselves, others and life as a whole. In philosophy of man our main objective is to understand who and what man is. Understanding man is to believe in his natural capacity to live a meaningful life. If philosophy is a desire or love of wisdom, then, philosophy of man is one’s desire to know who or what man is. No other being except man can know himself. As a whole, Philosophy of man is a course that delves “into the origin of human life, the nature of human life, and the reality of human existence.”

The human person is a mystery, that all of us, to some degree, try to comprehend. What is man? Who am I? Our awe before the nobility and misery of man is mirrored in the words of the psalmist, “What is man that You should care for him? Yet You had made him little less than the angels, crowning him with glory and splendor.” (PS 8:4-6) Shakespeare’s...