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8/9/2019 Understanding Pagpapakatao

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Understanding

Pagpapakatao(Having a Pleasing Personality)


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Pagpapakatao

Is the key to being able to live a goodmoral life

Mater et Magistra states that as often ashuman activity and institutions having todo with the afairs o this lie, the more

they are to be regarded as an ecaciousway o obtaining the immediate endofwhich they are directed


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Populorum Progressio arms thatevery man is called upon to developand ulll himsel for every life is a

vocation

!ohn Powell "#!# $ully Human $ully%live& fully alive people are thosewho are using their human aculties,

powers, and talents


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'atechisme e *eglise 'atholi+ue infer thatpagpapakatao means that since man is the humanperson created by ,od he or she is not onlysomething but someone#

-hus identifying three characteristics of the pleasingpersonality&

(1) being unique

(2) awareness o the signicance o etending one!suniqueness to the other "#$ou relationship and

(%) going beyond the "#$ou relationship &'relationship


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.# Pagpapakatao is knowing how tobe uni+ue (tunay na ako)

Human beings are an interestingcombination o diference andsameness# (s " ave *oved $ou+ he

-hallenge o -hristian 'thics!ames P#Hannigan)

!ohn Powell "#!# e/pressed thisuni+uesness by mentioning thisremark& .ater /od made you, he

bro0e the mold


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0ur responsibility to be uni+ue canbe done only through sel#awareness#Human beings is uni+ue because of

this self1awareness#

"ocrates believed that everyindividual should 0eep on inquiringwhat it means to be a personresponsible to truth and goodness#


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% further indication of self awarenessis questioning whether our lives havea goal or purpose whether there is a

reason for our being here or not#

"iddharta ,autama and ao -2uhave di3erent approaches in seekingthe answers#


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In the conte/t of 'atholic 'athecism "elf1awareness suggests thatpersons areconscious beings aware of themselves in

their outgoing acts#

In the conte/t of moral theology "elf1awareness is awareness o the tas0 obecoming a person at which we willsucceed or ail precisely by the choices ordecisions we ma0e#


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In the Philippine society we have to admitthat it is dicult to be authentic becausesocial acceptance is more highly valued

than being authentic#

-his should be changed and can only bedone by developing a virtue appropriate tothis particular characteristic ofpagpapakatao& aith, one o the theologicalvirtues#


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$aith is believing in what /od hasrevealed to us through !esus 'hristand continued in the holy 'atholic

'hurch#

$aith is actively cooperating with thedivine action by allowing /od tounloc0 our intellect so that we maybe truly open to the 4ord of ,od#


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5# Pagpapakatao is knowing how toe/tend the self to others (I16ou

relationship) % person is able to reali3e his or her individualpotentialities only i he or she is supported bythe universal values and laws which are

maniested through the common bond o realcommunity by all who share the same nature#

-he essence of person is to be related toanother 7I8# In e/tending the 7I8 to another7I8 one*s uni+ueness should be preserved#


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I16ou relationship& overs husband andwife parents and children and intimatefriends#

Michael 9# u3ey said that sincefriendship with others is the goal of'hristian life we should give our attentionto it# -he teachings of !esus have alwaysreminded us how others are important#


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4riendship indeed can bring us tosuccessul relationships# :ut this isonly possible after knowing the

di3erent levels of friendship&

a# the caring level o riendship# 0neindicator of this level is awareness#

%wareness of the presence of ourfriend entails recogni3ing his or hergood qualities and being attuned to

his or her eeling#


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-o know a real person is a mutualresponsibility which leads to anotherindicator o caring level o riendship,

communication# 0ne communicatesin various ways# *oo0ing, spea0ing,writing and touching, or 5ust by being

there#


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b# he level o baring one!s soul in riendship#-his level is +uite dicult because of theperceived dangers# "n revealing onesel, weris0 ending up re5ected#

espite the dangers we should opt to betransparent to our riends#

,reen;eld writes about baring one*s soul&

when a person does not admit or reveal tohimsel who, what, and why he or she is, thenthat person is out o touch with reality and intime will become sic0 6nly truth can heal#


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c# he level o spiritual riendship# -his unites usspiritually#

$riendship in the conte/t of the I16ou relationshipcan be summari2ed in the 'atholic $aith'atechism part II#

% virtue appropriate to this second characteristic of

pagpapakatao is hope (another theological virtue)


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Hoping isyearning or the nal gloryo being totally with /od#

4e also have to remember that hopecomes with responsibility for theworld#


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% community to be genuine is morethan the union o two persons withan "#$ou relationship# It can be

understood only in the sense thatthere is no such thing as one groupagainst another group#


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$ilipino values such aspa0i0isama canserve to orm a true community that is nota mere plurality o individuals, but many "!s

united by their acceptance#

4e dedicate ourselves to the community=we reali2e our responsibility toward it= we

are aware that >ust as we are supported bythe community we are likewise called tosupport it#


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-o sum up

-aking seriously the three characteristics ofpagpapakatao and integrating them intoour personhood is a proper response to

,od*s call#

'hristianity as an ethical religion in thesense that it recogni2es no separation

between service to ,od and moral conductallows the human person how to be humanin the world and humanly related to ,od#


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It recogni2es the signi;cance ofunderstanding oneself as a person inorder to fully grasp one*s task as a

human being in the world and one*srelationship to ,od#

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