In this time of the world where it is full of people that are living in a space in the world, many are striving to survive the course of time. There are people that are thinking of their own selves, beings that think only of what is good for their self without thinking of others, as long as they are happy surviving in their own benefit. Morality is slowly being destroyed by these beings, where individuality and survivability is the test of the life. The being that cannot stand on his own is a failure, and will not survive the test of life as the survival of the fittest. This kind of mentality does not differ from of animals. The technology and its negative approach to communication of people, where physical and real connection of the persons who are conversing was turned in to cyber communication. The true meaning of communication is the communion itself of two persons. Communication as person to person communion is the exchange of idea, information, and understanding with the accompaniment of emotions of happiness, sadness and many more. I will tackle in this pare about the philosophy of Max Scheler on the concept of person as Ground for community with a little connection to Kant’s Thing in Itself as applied in the priest hood.
The concept of Max Scheler on Person as Ground for Community tells that the person is always bound to experience, thus others are bound being experienced by the person. It is where all our experiences happened, and in every experience a person is experiencing acts are always present and a priori. A person is continuously acts and these acts depict the person who is acting. Through the acts the existence of a person becomes clear and it makes him/her more person.
The existence of a person can be clarified through actions, and what kind of person he/she is, as act reveals the person.
Every person is unique in his/her different ways, but not only a single person is being tackled here, for the word person in personhood itself is a relational term. Person cannot separate him/her self to others called community. Person is always communal, and with acts that are imbedded in every unique person in the community will create a communal act if united are they. Thus moral act of all person in the community, the moral will the community be, and communion will happened. As like what Scheler said “a person is in the community and the community is in the person.” Kant’s theory of thing in itself if connected to Scheler’s is like this; in the phenomena there will be a noumena which is the thing in itself that is in the realm of ideas. If this theory will applied to a person, the physical body of a person is the phenomena and the personhood of the person is the noumena.
The theory of Scheler and Kant can be applied in the priest hood as Scheler will explain a person, so does a priest will be tackled in this paper be. How a priest as a person connected to other priest? What is the connection of priests to priesthood?, as how Kant would understood. How will a priest be a priest as he always carry other priest where ever he may go, so as other priests will do,? And what is the effect of a single person as a priest to the community of priests?
A person as a priest is bound with his community of priests. Any where a priest will go or whatever a priest will do his brothers or the community of priests, always carried by him. The acts of a priest will always be acts of all the priests, for a priest is in the community always of priests, and the community of priests is always in a priest. If the priest is morally upright and humble kind of priest, then the community of priest may be morally upright and humble as community of priests will they be, in the communion of priests. In Kant’s theory of the thing in itself would cite that the phenomena that is physically present in the world is the existence of the priest. Thus the noumena is the priesthood itself that is in the world of ideas. We cannot know the noumena without the phenomena. Thus we cannot know what is the essence of priesthood without the physical presence of a priest, that will depict priesthood. These two is different from each other. The priest as the phenomena is being driven by his priesthood as the noumena, where through acts noumena will be revealed.
The priesthood of a priest is very significant to his being a priest, that a single priest should be a good person so will as a good priest and with that he carries the whole community of priests. This is very true here in the Philippines one of the great controversies is the donation of SUV’s given by the PCSO to Cotabato Arch Bishop Orlando Quevedo. The issue here now is “if Bishop Quevedo asks the help from PCSO to give him vehicles for his own benefit. This issue was commented that it is not for the personal use of Bishop Quevedes, but for the use of the vehicles for the social action apostolate of the Cotabato City. Thus it is not lawful for a government to give money or benefit to a specific person. Thus for Bishop Quevedes is also a priest all priest and the bishops are being connected and affected by this issues.
Priests must be very careful on the things they do to protect priesthood as they are being one of that priesthood. Purified ways of helping others as in helping one must be in the good intention and selfless way of helping to create a selfless community of priests being concerned to the flock they shepherd. The purification of all acts only happens in the formation of seminarians. The seminary should have good form of formation program to form its seminarians to act in accordance to the goodness of God. It is the task of the priests as their future brothers to see them and guide them in the formation. For the true essence of community is being a church.
The concept of Max Scheler on Person as Ground for Community tells that the person is always bound to experience, thus others are bound being experienced by the person. It is where all our experiences happened, and in every experience a person is experiencing acts are always present and a priori. A person is continuously acts and these acts depict the person who is acting. Through the acts the existence of a person becomes clear and it makes him/her more person.
The existence of a person can be clarified through actions, and what kind of person he/she is, as act reveals the person.
Every person is unique in his/her different ways, but not only a single person is being tackled here, for the word person in personhood itself is a relational term. Person cannot separate him/her self to others called community. Person is always communal, and with acts that are imbedded in every unique person in the community will create a communal act if united are they. Thus moral act of all person in the community, the moral will the community be, and communion will happened. As like what Scheler said “a person is in the community and the community is in the person.” Kant’s theory of thing in itself if connected to Scheler’s is like this; in the phenomena there will be a noumena which is the thing in itself that is in the realm of ideas. If this theory will applied to a person, the physical body of a person is the phenomena and the personhood of the person is the noumena.
The theory of Scheler and Kant can be applied in the priest hood as Scheler will explain a person, so does a priest will be tackled in this paper be. How a priest as a person connected to other priest? What is the connection of priests to priesthood?, as how Kant would understood. How will a priest be a priest as he always carry other priest where ever he may go, so as other priests will do,? And what is the effect of a single person as a priest to the community of priests?
A person as a priest is bound with his community of priests. Any where a priest will go or whatever a priest will do his brothers or the community of priests, always carried by him. The acts of a priest will always be acts of all the priests, for a priest is in the community always of priests, and the community of priests is always in a priest. If the priest is morally upright and humble kind of priest, then the community of priest may be morally upright and humble as community of priests will they be, in the communion of priests. In Kant’s theory of the thing in itself would cite that the phenomena that is physically present in the world is the existence of the priest. Thus the noumena is the priesthood itself that is in the world of ideas. We cannot know the noumena without the phenomena. Thus we cannot know what is the essence of priesthood without the physical presence of a priest, that will depict priesthood. These two is different from each other. The priest as the phenomena is being driven by his priesthood as the noumena, where through acts noumena will be revealed.
The priesthood of a priest is very significant to his being a priest, that a single priest should be a good person so will as a good priest and with that he carries the whole community of priests. This is very true here in the Philippines one of the great controversies is the donation of SUV’s given by the PCSO to Cotabato Arch Bishop Orlando Quevedo. The issue here now is “if Bishop Quevedo asks the help from PCSO to give him vehicles for his own benefit. This issue was commented that it is not for the personal use of Bishop Quevedes, but for the use of the vehicles for the social action apostolate of the Cotabato City. Thus it is not lawful for a government to give money or benefit to a specific person. Thus for Bishop Quevedes is also a priest all priest and the bishops are being connected and affected by this issues.
Priests must be very careful on the things they do to protect priesthood as they are being one of that priesthood. Purified ways of helping others as in helping one must be in the good intention and selfless way of helping to create a selfless community of priests being concerned to the flock they shepherd. The purification of all acts only happens in the formation of seminarians. The seminary should have good form of formation program to form its seminarians to act in accordance to the goodness of God. It is the task of the priests as their future brothers to see them and guide them in the formation. For the true essence of community is being a church.
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