The Human Person as an Embodied Spirit: Limitations and Transcendence

2. The Human Person
as an Embodied Spirit
Human existence is embodied existence.
Many things related to our existence as persons are
related to bodies – age, sex, race, relationships, etc.

3. Consciousness
is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being
aware of an external object or something within
oneself.

5. EMBODIMENT
refers to the biological and physical presence of our
bodies, which are a necessary precondition for
subjectivity, emotion, language, thought and social
interaction

9. Limitations of the Human Person
as an Embodied Spirit
1. Facticity
2. Spatial-Temporal Being
3. The Body as Intermediary

10. 1. Facticity
Refers to the things
in our life that are
already given

11. 1. Facticity
Refers to the things
in our life that are
already given

12. 1. Facticity
Refers to the things in our life that are already given
Refers to all the details that surround us in the
present: our environment, our language, our past
decisions, our past and present relationships, and
even our future death.

13. 2. Spatial-temporal Being
As temporal beings, our most obvious limitation is our
finitude – our finite quality or state.

15. 2. Spatial-temporal Being
As spatial beings, we are limited by our bodies to be
present in two or more places at the same time.

19. 2. Spatial-temporal Being
We are limited by space (spatial) and time
(temporal).
Our spatial-temporal situation sets our preconditions
of understanding.

21. 3. The Body as Intermediary
Intermediary means acting as a mediator (Merriam-
Webster).

22. 3. The Body as Intermediary
Intermediary means acting as a mediator (Merriam-
Webster).
Our body serves as an intermediary between us and
the physical world.

23. 3. The Body as Intermediary
Intermediary means acting as a mediator (Merriam-
Webster).
Our body serves as an intermediary between us and
the physical world.
Our body limits our experience of the world to our
world.

24. 3. The Body as Intermediary
This imposes limitations concerning communication
and expression.

34. QUESTIONS?

35. Get ¼ sheet of paper

37. Let us check.

38. Limitations of the Human Person
as an Embodied Spirit
1. Facticity
2. Spatial-Temporal Being
3. The Body as Intermediary

41. Is the ability to change, be dynamic, and continually
redefining one’s self which works with our facticity to
create change.
TRANSCENDENCE

44. 1. Facticity
At times we use our facticity as an excuse for our
difficulties and failures.

50. 2. Spatial-temporal Being
We are more concerned with the past and/or future
that is why we never appreciate the present.

59. 2. Spatial-temporal Being
We cannot be at the place where we want to be at
an instant.

65. 3. The Body as Intermediary
Having a body may prevent us from disclosing what
we really want to express.

74. QUESTIONS?

75. Get ¼ sheet of paper