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    The document discusses the human person as an embodied being with both limitations and possibilities. It explores how our bodies can limit activities but also open opportunities through transcendence. An activity is described where partners try normal tasks without their thumbs to experience limitations but also appreciate what is still possible. While bodies determine aspects of our identities, they also provide a starting point for exceeding boundaries and defining ourselves through our actions.

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    CHAPTER 3

    THE HUMAN
    PERSON AS AN
    EMBODIED
    PHILOSOPHY
    -Love of wisdom.
    -About dwelling on the questions that
    underlie our search of meaning.
    -It has no ready-made answers.
    THE BODY AS
    LIMITATION
    AND
    TRANSCENDENCE

    • Ability to surpass one’s limitation.


    • Going beyond limitation while exerting effort.

    Trans- go beyond
    Scandare- climb
    THUMB-LESS LIFE ACTIVITY
    Pick your partner. One of you will pretend that your thumbs are
    gone for five minutes. While in this state, proceed with your normal
    activities while your thumbs are not functioning. On a piece of paper
    in one column ask your partner to write down as many activities you
    can NOT do because your thumb is absent. In another column write
    down the many things you CAN do even if your thumb is absent.

    Example: Can you pick a coin?


    ACTIVITY
    1. How did you feel about your self after failing to do certain
    activities that you would normally do easily? Did you
    appreciate the importance of a very small part of your body,
    your thumb, more after this activity?
    2. When you wrote down the column of things that you can still
    do even in the absence of your thumb, did that change the
    way you feel about your self? Did it comfort you a little to
    know that you can still do certain things with out your thumb?
    ACTIVITY
    3. Look at the list of the things that you can do without your
    thumb. Imagine that these are the only things that you can do for
    the rest of your life. Would you still consider your activities as
    “Human” activities? Do you agree if someone says that without
    your thumbs, your life is not as human as it should be.
    ACTIVITY

    Did you know that humans are thee only animals in earth with
    fully opposable thumbs?

    Opposable- the ability of the thumb to lie across the palm,


    perpendicular to the four fingers.
    You discovered that a very simple detail about
    our bodies has multiple implications with
    regard to our lives. In other words with our
    opposable thumbs, we would not have learned
    writing, creating tools, and playing with
    objects.
    THE BODY AS A SOURCE OF LIMITATION
    AND POSSIBILITY
    HUMAN LIMITATIONS
    We love to watch movies about super heroes because they
    showcase amazing feature that ordinary human beings cannot
    do.
    Superman was a projection of peoples own frustration about
    their own limitations. These limitations were the direct opposite
    of Superman’s powers.
    HUMAN LIMITATIONS
    We have only a certain amount of strength to carry
    things or accomplish tasks. We cannot prevent
    accident entirely no matter how careful we are. We
    cannot move as fast as we could from one place to
    another. Despite all advances in technology, we can
    never reverse the course of time. EMBODIED
    BEINGS
    Human existence is embodied existence. Many
    things that are related to our existence as a person
    are related to our bodies – age, sex, race,
    relationship and etc. We started counting our
    birthdays to determine our age from the time we
    were born into this world. Our age count began as
    soon as our embodied existence not imagined
    existence began.
    A large part of who we are and how we
    define ourselves is determined by our
    bodies. The details we write in our bio
    data are not things we can simply
    choose or change.
    As, limitations, the body related aspects
    about our selves are not products of our
    first choice. They have, in a sense, been
    given to us on a permanent basis.
    The Body as Transcendence
    While we mostly complain about how
    there are so many things that we can’t
    change about our lives because of our
    bodies, we hardly see that the body also
    opens possibilities.
    The Body as Transcendence
    There is an important paradox about the body
    that we need to understand. While the body limits
    us, the very same limitation create opportunities for
    us.

    CLASSROOM- Sleeping (x)


    CLASSROOM- Learning (/)

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