MAN AND

HISTORICAL ACTION
 OBJECTIVES:

At the end of the lesson, the students should

be able to:

Categorize the different points of

intersection of line of events in his/her life.

Appreciate his/her “structure” according to

these crosspoints.
Man is a crosspoint or point of intersection of
certain lines of events on varied levels.
These are: point of intersection of natural
events, physical line of events, interpersonal,
social, historical, and individual.
 THE INTERSECTION OF
NATURAL EVENTS

The body is million years of old. It flows

from the presumption that the totality of
the energy in the world (must) remains
constant. Hence, the atom, the energy, the
matter that compose the body all dates
back from the origin of the universe
(about 50 billion years old).
Hence, we can say that:
The first chordates emerged 700
million years ago.
The first vertebrates emerged 500
million years ago.
The first man appeared 250,000 years
ago.
THE PHYSICAL POINT OF
EVENTS

From the first appearance of the first

man, implies the formation of the
nervous system, the brain, and the body.
Once polarised and organised, there
came consciousness, forming the
psycho-biological organism, we call
MAN.
In this crosspoint, man is composed of
natural, chemical, and physical
elements, and at the same time, a point
of intersection of physical world of
events.
Thus, man becomes a conscious
crosspoint of a conscious point of
intersection.
Being conscious implies
being aware of the natural environment that
brought him into these points of consciousness.
being aware of his own limitations, but
likewise..
being aware of his possibilities and
potentialities.
This crosspoint of consciousness implies
capabilities of activities. Thus, man becomes
the source of creativity.
 THE CROSSPOINT AT
INTERPERSONAL LEVEL
Psychological claim: human psychological
personality is really a crosspoint of various
personal relationship.
One’s personality is determined by the
relationship with the parents, brothers,
peers, friends etc. A personality is a fruit of
intersecting personal lines coming
together.
Thus, the differences of people are not only
determined by the differences of their
physical bodies, but rather on what
constitutes the different types of point of
intersection of personal line of events.
This crosspoint is not on the physical sense
anymore but on personal sense implying
that man is a product of certain network or
web of personal lines.
 THE SOCIAL POINT OF
INTERSECTION

Being a conscious crosspoint one can

put together future lines of events or
(even) separate personal lines of
events.
Man is a possible melting point and
bond of personal lines of events.
Man is a social product of social point of
intersection of social events…

a product of many social traits, qualities,

and breed and characteristics in the past,
which were all beyond our control.

Thus, these social points of intersection

create social habits and practices we call
“CULTURE”.
 HISTORICAL POINT OF
INTERSECTION
Historical lines of events are beyond one’s
control.
As crosspoint of historical events, “we are what
we are”; we are given a set of data (physical set
of data, social set of data, interpersonal set of
data, etc.)
As a point of intersection of historical processes,
we stand with a certain set of past and historical
facts.
 As we become conscious of ourselves as
historical products, we also become
aware of the historical possibilities that
we have.

Becoming aware of these limits as well as

possibilities of history shall become
source of historical creativity.
THE INDIVIDUAL’S POINT
OF INTERSECTION (SELF)
This is a point of intersection resulting to a
unique individual with ideals, ultimate goals,
and purpose in life.

Human personality which takes an existential

framework whereby his own person is
included in some kind of permanent whole,
permanent totality through transcendental or
spiritual viewpoint.
Though may be set by ideals of the past
and perhaps, in the beginning blindly
following them, in certain point of time,
one becomes conscious of these ideals
and finally make them more authentic,
more personal and dependent on one’s
own deliberate decision.

Thus, becoming conscious as a person of

meaning.
 This is what an existential task is-
the highest level of point of
intersection where one determines
the meaning of his/her own
personal life.
We may be limited because of
our given past, but because
we are conscious individuals…

we can do something.
Thank you