From the book of Genesis the human person is presented as divine image-bearer, a Godlike status that is further explained in terms of the dual constitution of matter and spirit. Natural Law provides a person-centred ethic that draws on a number of human goods that emanate naturally from the human person and lead in practice to human flourishing. This theory empowers towards making ethical decisions in the interest of human persons. Aristotle explained the human being as a substantially existing entity with rational powers. By means of his form-matter scheme he handed on, by way of Boethius, to Aquinas, a ready model for the Christian belief in the dual nature of the human person as an ensouled body or embodied soul. Applying the new scientific method to the question of the human self David Hume concluded that he could neither prove nor disprove her existence. By so reasoning Hume indirectly pointed to the need for other disciplines than empirical science to explain the human person. Emmanuel Levinas has drawn on the metaphysical tradition to draw attention to the social and ethical nature of the human person as she leaves the trace of her passing through the face of the other person who is encountered with an ethical gravitas of absolute demand. The genesis of the human person most naturally begins at conception at which point and onwards the human embryo grows continuously through an internal, animating principle towards a full-grown adult person. The main conclusion is that biblical anthropology and metaphysical philosophy provide the needed structures and concepts to explain adequately the full meaning of the human person and to establish the moral right of the human person at every stage to respect and protection.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:12:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseMN.pdf: 393628 bytes, checksum: 681edfa16c6d45e95595bec0b691cfc6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-19 / This work s objective is to make a literal interpretation of Kant s Aesthetic transcendental, the first pilaster of sustentation of the epistemology of Kant and to interpret it at Strawson s light. It contains the doctrine of sensitivity responsible for the intuitions, which rests on the concepts of space and time, and, with this, the tematiza??o of two important questions. For Kant s philosophy in its epistemologic source what s the importance of the concepts of and time? How these concepts of space and time inscribe themselves with such statute as an investigatory task of metaphysics? The specification of the concepts of space and time as ingredients of the theories treated and enrolled in this work are segmented of the Aesthetic transcendental of Kant, and interpreted under Strawson s light. The research is divided in two chapter; first, constituted of two parts, the first part presents an introduction to the Aesthetic transcendental of Kant, to show the doctrine of the sensitivity which is part of with its forms space and time, authentic forms of the intuition. The second chapter, is constituted of four parts, that deal with the interpretation of the austere model of Strawson and related with Kant s transcendental Aesthetic. The conclusion of our work, about the declared objection of Strawson in its austere interpretation that refuses the idea of space and time, even keeping its a priori character, cannot be accepted. The apriority, the intuitivity and the ideality are theories non-separable in a coherent boarding of space and time of Kant s model of epistemology / Este trabalho tem por objetivo fazer uma interpreta??o textual da est?tica transcendental kantiana, a primeira pilastra de sustenta??o da epistemologia de Kant e interpret?-la ? luz de Strawson. Ela cont?m a doutrina da sensibilidade respons?vel pelas intui??es, que repousam sobre os conceitos de espa?o e tempo e, com isso, a tematiza??o de duas importantes quest?es. Para a filosofia kantiana em sua vertente epistemol?gica, qual a import?ncia dos conceitos de espa?o e tempo? Como esses conceitos de espa?o e tempo se inscrevem com tal estatuto como uma tarefa investigat?ria da metaf?sica? Os conceitos de espa?o e tempo, especificados como ingredientes das teses tratadas e arroladas nesta disserta??o, s?o no??es relevantes da est?tica transcendental de Kant, aqui interpretados ? luz de Strawson. A pesquisa est? dividida em dois cap?tulo. O primeiro cap?tulo, que consta de duas partes, ap?s fazer uma introdu??o ? est?tica transcendental de Kant, exp?e a doutrina da sensibilidade de que fazem parte espa?o e tempo, formas aut?nticas da intui??o. O segundo cap?tulo, constitu?do de cinco partes, trata da interpreta??o do modelo austero de Strawson relacionado com a est?tica transcendental de Kant. A conclus?o do nosso trabalho ? a de que, no que pese a declarada obje??o de Strawson em sua interpreta??o austera, que recusa a idealidade do espa?o e do tempo, mesmo mantendo o seu car?ter a priori, n?o pode ser aceita A aprioridade, a intuitividade e a idealidade s?o teses insepar?veis numa abordagem coerente do espa?o e do tempo do modelo de epistemologia kantiana