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An assessment on the Values System of Our Lady of Peace College Seminary in the
light of Max Scheler’s Hierarchy of Values
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A Thesis Project
Presented to the
Faculty of Philosophy
In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements
for the Degree of
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Submitted by:
Bro. Uy, Allan Frangelo D.
A.B Philosophy IV- Eklektos
January 5, 2020
Table of content
Chapter I
I. Introduction
V. Definition of terms
Chapter II
Chapter III
I. Methodology
Chapter IV
Chapter V
I. Conclusion
II. Summary
III. Recommendation
IV. Bibliography
Introduction
The research focused on the value system that would a guide to the other researchers
as well as to the seminarians on what values that the Our Lady of Peace College Seminary
culture and traditions by understanding their differences based on the how seminarians was
formed with the help of the New Ratio Fundementalis Sacerdotalis Institosiones and some
This study presents to the readers that the seminarians of Our Lady of Peace College
Seminary have the values that can help them to their future ministry in dealing with their
parishioners. It can be a source of evaluation on the lay people on how a man being formed
inside of the seminary, it gives them a glimpse of what seminary is, the way how it formed
with the values that he proved as his philosophy. Phenomenological approaches of values
were still relevant to the current generation because of the issues that the church is facing.
The versatility of the church’s values helps each faithful to remain and fight for their faith,
as their fundamental tool in dealing with their struggles and challenges that they will be
facing.
One of the famous dictums of Stephen Covey as regards the importance of values
“Begin each day with the blueprint of the deepest values firmly in mind then when the
challenges come, make decisions based on those values.” These words of Covey reminds
not just the researcher but also the readers on how to live out each values being taught and
A man of values builds his principles in life. It helps a person faces the struggles in
his life. Values create peace as well as order in everything that a person is saying. A man of
values especially for the seminarians who desired to be a priest someday would be at great
help to understand and love the ministry that they will be embracing and also the
parishioners that they will be encountering. It develops each person especially the
seminarians regarding their values so to fit and formed themselves to their future ministry.
There were four hierarchies of values that Max Scheler proposes in this study,
namely the Sensory, Vital, Spiritual, and Holy and Unholy values. These four represents the
importance of scaling the values which is more valuable to be done first and it follows until
the last part of it. Values pronounces systematic methods in prioritizing and segregating
important from not. Values help a person to be a happy on the things that he is doing.
Happiness lies on the passion, interest, and the highest of these was love, because love
In every man’s values requires a love that makes him passionate in acquiring each
values in his experiences. Seminarians acquires values within the four corners of the
seminary, also, there were values that can be acquire outside of the seminary. An example of
it is during their apostolates in DSWD, St. Joseph home for Special Children, Tarlac
Provincial Jail, Tarlac Provincial Hospital and in Ramos General Hospital. They learned a
lot through the experiences of the people they encounter each apostolate. Sharing was the
common acquisitions of knowledge, experiences, and values from the patience and relatives
on how they deal with their sicknesses. The application of these things will manifest during
This study aims to assess the values system of the seminarians of the Our Lady of Peace
College Seminary in the light of Max Scheler’s Theory of Values. The study would like to
1.1. Name
1.2. Age
The researcher evaluated the values system of the seminarians of the Our Lady of
Peace College Seminary in the light of Max Scheler's theory of values. It includes all
year levels in the Seminary Formation 2019-2020 from senior high school to fourth
year. The study was delimited to the respondents who are the seminarians of Our Lady
of Peace College Seminary. There were 38 respondents; all were given a survey based
This study conducted to determine the profile of the respondents as well as the
seminarians’ practice of the values system according to Max Scheler theory of values. Also
The assessment was conducted during the academic year 2019-2020 here at Our
The findings of the study gives a great benefit on the diocese and especially in
seminarian’s values regarding how he can be flexible enough in dealing with the
people within the Diocese of Tarlac. Through the help of the new Ratio Fundamentalis
Instituionis Sacerdotalis the formation of seminarians has the uniformity and as well as
the way of forming them, there will be an objective and existing standard in doing it.
Priest of the Diocese for them to be reminded that it is important to deal with
their seminarians whom will be their brothers in the ministerial priesthood someday; it
somehow examines the developing values of the youth in the diocese of Tarlac that
they can cope up with the rapid development of each generation. It can also share some
insights regarding to their experiences as a priest in the diocese. The weaknesses of the
seminarians were some of the reasons that the bond of priest and seminarians be filled
For the Youth who would like to be one of the seminarians of the Our Lady of
Peace College Seminary, this study was a help in having a glimpse of what is to be
expected inside the seminary. It was not a vocation promotion paper but rather it was a
paper that would give them an idea with the life that a seminarian was experiencing
For the Parents who has children that were eager and willing to be a priest
someday. It was an aid in discerning to allow his child to enter the seminary. The
formation and the “pagpapaka-tao” which was being taught in the seminary was being
seminary, there must be an enlightenment upon reading this thesis study because of the
objective sources and objective approach in doing this thesis. The researcher would
like to deepen his knowledge on how a seminarian develops the values inside the
seminary.
13321 ]. Values were being inherited generation by generation in the seminary. The
seminary is a home for the seminarians who choose and desire to offer their whole life
For the lay faithful, this study will be benefited for them because values are
essential for the future priests. By setting a good example and doing what they are
preach. Hence, a good organization should have a good leader by example through
values.
Definition of terms
in having a decision making. Different jurist or legal analysts may order values
Values- It serves as guide for human behaviour in looking for the worth or
importance of something [ CITATION Rob99 \l 13321 ].
common sense and wisdom of knowing the proper moral rules and discipline
are, and the amount of willingness to see themselves and other aside from them.
Biographical Sketch
Max Ferdinand Scheler also known as Max Scheler, was born in Munich on the 22
of August in the year 1874. He was raised in an orthodox Jewish household. In 1894
Scheler finished his secondary education, and started to study medicine, philosophy,
and psychology.
Scheler’s analyses in the emotional life and sociality were the strength of the
undoubtedly because of his works as a phenomenologist in his time. His analyses were
still felt up until now because of the emotionality of his phenomenology. It touches the
specifically human products, abilities and activities are rooted in the fundamental
when he was a child. He has difficulties in his family and also he experienced this kind
In one of the biographical books written about Max Scheler it says there that he
was having a hard time to combine the theory and the application, especially during the
time when Christianity and some of the middle-class people cannot provide some
evidences and guidelines on the values to the twentieth century European citizen. In
his early years in the University of Munich, Scheler came up with the problem of
injustice and evils that could possibly be solved by giving priority and standards in
As time goes by, Scheler went in Berlin and he saw the faces of the standards
that were set in that place as well as the faces of the abused, miserable and helpless
people who are below average of their living in the society. On the year 1895 Scheler
arrived in Jena, and left the church as his guide towards his philosophical researches.
By the time of his move to Jena (1895), Scheler had abandoned the Church for
philosophy as a guide for his searches. The anti-positivist neo-Kantian thought of his
regard to the living, and that humanity’s course in history, away from his original
experience of nature and toward the control and manipulation of the latter through
work and science, had emptied human life of meaning. Human spirit, as a reflection of
the absolute spirit, is our capacity to be in contact with eternal ideals and values in the
pure realm of being. [ CITATION Joh19 \l 13321 ] The solution, then, to the crisis of
When the time that Scheler decided to return on his faith to the Church he was
with him his message, the fruit of his searches, of love. He continually searches for the
value of life and also he discovered the Phenomenology of Husserl and Bergson’s life
and philosophy, these two thinkers trust in the essential richness of simple perception
that can offer the unprejudiced philosopher. Having this equipment, he could now
search in a deeper sense on the human structure and the composition of the cosmos in
emphasized the philosophically suppressed emotive substrate of humanity and saw the
world as the value-rich garden of God’s creation, veiled by scientism and a morality
He remained doubtful to the liberalistic point of view and the idea of common
authority, and biasedly believed toward traditional and religious perspective of society
and politics. After the reappearance of Scheler from Jena to Munich and experiencing
the brutality of life and having neither job nor income, Scheler became suspicious
about the better future of the European citizen and its nation. He dreamed about the
life or organic way of living that was deprived to them but the reality would say that
transcendental subject, thus, the notion of Scheler differs to the notion of person in
certain crucial aspects. According to Scheler, the person is not like a posited supra-
individual principle away from the boundary that is an immediately given. Relevantly,
the person per se is the abrupt co-experienced unity of experiencing. The person only
exists and lives in the achievement or in the performance of the intentional acts.
Moreover, every person is individuated as a person, and not by just a merely virtue of
their bodies, the spatiotemporal locations and the content of experience. Truly, as for
Scheler the persons are absolute individuals in the sense that they are individuated in
Nevertheless, scheler also claims that the acquisition of a fully, developed and
peaceful mind is a prerequisite of being a person. In some of his account it says there
that animals, as well as children, madmen, and slaves are not considered as a person
because of the thoughts of the actions that must be bound by the unity of senses and it
must establish parts of one meaningful life that is why if you are to qualify as a person.
The person must be the basis of the decisions, feelings and thoughts; you must be
lot of tragedy in his life that is why he chose to be pantheism rather than being a
catholic. In his childhood, his younger sister was maltreated. Before entering the
secondary level of studies his younger sister died. They kept on transferring in
different places as long as their livelihood still being progressive. And he decided to
transfer in Jena because of a woman namely Amelie who attracted him and even
followed him in Jena to study. And their scheler finished his philosophical study.
that the sociality should not prioritize the theoretical matter but rather the most
important aspect of the emotional life. The fundamental pascalian claims of Scheler
that the emotional aspects of our life on Earth are characterized by an “A Priori
content” and are subjected to be an A Priori law and afterward that the recognition and
experience of Order of the Heart or the Logic of the Heart will be manifested through
the individuals.
Despite the many struggles and suffering that Scheler experienced in his early
years in searching for certainty, Scheler still believed that there will be a future and
rebirth to the country of Europe while they are under the colony of Germany’s
guidance and control. It should have a basis on essential knowledge of what humans
are and how they stand and act in the universe. The greatest accomplishment of
material values without dropping victims to the dangers that Kant justifiably
problems in facing the humanity that can boiled down to his critique of rationalist,
hedonistic, and utilitarian ethics, that could lead towards an ethics based on the
concrete human person in the world. Through this the existence of the embodied spirit
irrational, but rather it links us into a value-laden reality in partially meaningful ways;
internal ethos of a person may fall into a state where there are orders of values that
cannot be perceived correctly or not all anymore. Humans are being found to trail the
courses of action that can be lead to the realization that fail to guarantee the
When Scheler died in 1928 many of his writings still remained unpublished.
The publication of his posthumous writings commenced in 1933, but the enterprise
came to a sudden halt with the rise of Nazism (Hitler), which suppressed and banned
Scheler’s work due to his Jewish background. Their publication resumed in 1954
Chapter II
In this chapter the researcher used books and articles of different authors
regarding the topic of Values System and ethical experiences of a person in his or her
day to day living. In assessing the Values system of Our Lady of Peace College
Seminary it requires sources and some proofs that would strengthen the research being
Related Literature
Foreign
Books
Material Ethics of Values: Max Scheler, Material Ethics of Values: Max Scheler,
themselves, but they are present in the human intellect. There are possibilities that they
As such, it avoids from metaphysical questions like “in the sense of the question: What
is the nature of the given” and epistemological questions like "in the sense of the
phenomena that prepares the linguistic forms of cognition and thus of knowledge on
the everyday or natural perspective, where we see the sun rise and set, observe decent
and good actions, and live our lives unaware of the formal structures of thought and
the material content of the ideas we refer to when we identify objects. We found it
hard to know, perhaps, what the ultimate nature of being, mind, and value are, but it is
persons to possess in knowledge, and to evaluate, the objects we find in the world
common perspective upon the insufficiency of the intellect that it faces. The suitable
enthusiasm to let things give themselves to us, without any prejudices about what the
world may be and how the world must be. The perspective is one of natural reflection
contribution in achieving clarity about the philosophical problems that have befuddled
Scheler and Hartmann call the meaning elements that are intended in the
work as a material a priori, they are prior to and condition the thought of a perceived
reference to perception, they are judgments of common sense, or judgments made from
observation these are judgments about the “states of affairs” posited by hypotheses in
science.
Scheler claim that the a priori knowledge must always possess an unambiguous
judging about living things. There was a value that functions as a judgment concerning
the will, action, and the wholeness of a human being. Values are not considered as a
relation but rather values are considerable on how determined and willed to sacrifice
for it.
There are four values which Scheler propose in his theory as a
Sensory Values, Vital Values, Spiritual Values and the Holy and Unholy, these are
classified according to the discipline and choices of a human being. Life is composes
of choices in the world. Everything that happens in a human being is rooted with its
choice. To distinguish them from one another, are the essential characteristics of each
values that would pertain to what is higher values among them. First, the value was
higher if it contained in its essence, the ability to endure through time. It focused on
the quality of certain scenery of a human and not the quantity of it. Second, the higher
values were less divisible. It is kind of value that apply to favourability of a certain
people. A subjective way of seeking happiness to the point that it objectifies humans to
achieve what is pleasant to him or her. Third, the value was higher if it generates other
values and found them. Fourth, the depth of contentment or fulfilment accompanies
higher values. Man’s satisfaction was based in a certain event of his life. Lastly, the
value is higher if it less relative to the organism experiencing it. For example, the
spiritual love between two persons does not depend on their physical characteristics or
disabilities.
people use it as their culture and tradition from generation to generations. One of the
branches of Philosophy would say that there is an accepted paradigm during that era.
They accepted it whole heartedly and by means of obeying it with no regrets. There is
no gadfly to destroy the paradigm, all their questions, confusions, and many more was
being answered by the anomalies as to safeguard the integrity of the philosophical
In this book, Eugene Kelly showed the readers that there were classifications of
values that can be at help in this study. There were this distinction between moral
values and non-moral values that would clarify the importance of the hierarchy of
values. Which among the four values must be implied or put into action, whether it can
study was also the book of Eugene Kelly. This book of Eugene Kelly would like to
dissect the philosophy of Max Scheler regarding the thirst for unity, orderliness and
the certainty of the knowledge of a human person. In this book, it focuses in the
methods of Max Scheler in seeking for the certainty regarding to the values that passes
through the senses of a human being (Introduction). The hierarchy of the values was
also presented in this book, it only give an emphasis on the emotion that gives a person
some reasons to do or apply all the values through “LOVE” it also gives some
distinction regarding the perversion of the values that says that there are principles of
subjectivity and relativism (Love and perversion) that bothers the certainty and
truthfulness of the values which Max Scheler propose in his values system. It also set
some foundations regarding the ethical way of interpreting the values that a man
possesses, because not all values that a people know is right because some values are
concluded as values because of the tradition that they got used to. And here comes the
Value-based ethics and ethics rule that would act as the mediator of what is good and
bad on a value.
The second author that the researcher chose to be a helping hand in assessing
the problems exposed by the researcher was Manfred Fring. In the first book of
Manfred Fring that the researcher chose will be a guide in assessing the theory of
values of max Scheler towards the answers to the problem of this study, it is the in this
book would be the source of the discussion regarding the sensible values that can be
felt by the lived body. As the understanding of the researcher it focuses on the
practicality or the application of the values being taught by the other textbook that a
person must acquire. It gives an insight regarding the pragmatic values towards the
value in the mind that can be a help in deciding in the day to day living of a person.
Lastly, Manfred also discusses in this book is the highest among the values which is
the values of the holy that reminds a person on the things that must be given a priority
with regardless of the things that must be prioritize on a given scenario in life.
Press 1973
The second book which the researcher used in his study was also according to
Manfred Fring. It is one of the primary sources of the researcher in making this
whole theory of Max Scheler regarding his Theory of Values. It completes the though
The purpose of values in an informal point of view is the experiences that they
are encountering in their day to day living. The sub-conscience that is part of a person
facilitates or over power the action of a person, or the natural way of living of a
person. It gives the person a freedom to know what must be done and what the person
wanted to do, for as long as it is for the betterment of all it is accepted by the laws in
the society.
selling yourself to others. It represents who you are as well as the family that you
belong to. These values are the principles that you will be living as you grow older.. It
will be noticed to a person of what kind of values that they have as their principles and
BUDHI a journal of ideas and culture, Max Scheler’s Ethics of love and Solidarity
The third author was Manuell B. Dy Jr. who discussed the hierarchy of values
in his book; it would be easier for the researcher to achieve his goal in his study with
the help also of this book concerning the study of the scientific process of acquiring
values from the lowest to the highest form of values. This book focuses on the
importance of each value that represents a person in making him or her a better person,
The first value that Max Scheler said in this book was Sensory Values that
pertain to the things that make a person feel the comfort, pleasure or anything that
passes through the senses of a person. A subjective way of interpreting what makes a
person, It emphases on the Vital itself of a person especially on the health, sickness,
aging, exhaustion, and many more. It is independent and irreducible to the pleasant and
Thirdly, the Spiritual Value that focuses on the spiritual love and hatred of a
person, from the word itself “SPIRITUAL” it is independent from the body and
environment that can affect a person. Therefore there is this feeling that dictates our
Lastly, the Holy and Unholy that would emphasise the “absolute object” It can
be encapsulated on the word faith, because it is within the periphery of the realm of
sacraments, cult, and many more, that can be judge in the way how people worship.
Manuel Dy classified and distinguish the difference of the benevolence from what
Love is, the things that made or act as concern only, because there were people who
are just kind to other people but not expressing Love as the highest form of giving and
sacrificing. It only share the gifts and blessing that this person receives from the all
mighty. Not all benevolent acts are manifestations of love to others; some were just
acts that are according to the natural law, or as their conscience is concern. They
usually do it because it is for the greater good of the person and not Love for the
person
As the conclusion of this book, solidarity is needed for the acquiring these four
values exposed at the top of this paper. It acts as the mediator of the two systems. It
unites the two values namely the spiritual and the holy and unholy values and also the
material values from the moral values. It helps a person to understand more the
strength and weaknesses of the person, to be open to the possibilities to develop sooner
Max’s Scheler’s concept of the person (an ethics of humanism) Ron Perrin 1991
The fourth author was Ron Perrin who uncovered the person by the use of the
philosophy of Max Scheler in this book the researcher found lots of relevant topics that
the wholeness of the person regarding his existence here on Earth. It is the formation
or the development of a person to be a better person. The ethical and moral way of
living in the society that can be the final cause of every person, Ron Perrin would like
to share the values which Max Scheler would like to pertaining in moulding a person
especially on the day to day living in the society as a result of the values that was
Persons in Love (A Study of Max Scheler's Wesen und Formen der Sympathie)
The fifth author that the researcher chose was A.R. Luther to be part of his
study in answering the problems regarding the study which he conducted. The content
of this book that would be at help was the process to attain values. It is the process to
have the values which Scheler have introduced to the readers. The actualization of the
values that a person acquired was rooted on the emotion of Love that a human being
feels when he or she has some attraction to other people. In this book the readers can
also learn about the dynamic structure of values that can be a tool for a person to
clarification on the phenomenology of love that can be at help in dissecting the values
as a Holy and Unholy values as to what Scheler proposes in his hierarchy of Values.
A clarification on the action that a man usually does is being intertwined with
love, because love is one of the aspects of a human being that controls a person in
doing what the he wills. It gives a person inspiration and strength in accordance with
The sixth author that the researcher chose was Graham McAleer and the content
of his book concerning the learning that can be applied not only for the reader but also
the effect of the readers to the other that they can be mingled with. It concentrates on
the “other” the things that can be held on the inner self of the other. How appropriate
the learning that the textbooks have imparted to the readers. It gives a human person
an idea on how to act morally in terms of the things that a human being must possess
especially when the person is with the members of the family. There is this community
that a person must live with. It will fall on the versatility of a person in fitting his or
her personality in the group. There will be the time where the morality of the person
will be provoke, as well as, the values regarding the understanding, patience and the
love that can be imparted to the people around him or her, and also the limitations of
The a Priori value and feeling in Max Scheler and wang yangming publishe by
Routledge 2014
The seventh author that the researcher chose was Yinghua Lu in this book the
readers can be the foundation of the similarities in the point of view of Max Scheler as
well as the Confucians. They strengthen the Theory which Max Scheler proposed, The
Hierarchy of Values, because the values are being embedded through Love, and love is
being considered that exist in the heart. The moral emotions in Confucian learning of
heart are experiential, but not sensory (reference). There is the heart-mind conclusion
in a way that it dictates the mind who to love or share the love that a man experience.
It helps the researcher in analysing the importance of the experience that could help a
human person to acquire the values that could make him or her a better person. As
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Secondary Source
Faith and Love by Sharon Krishek Published in the United States of America by
for the answers regarding the questions that he raised in his statements of the problem.
love in the inner harmony of a person. The author acknowledges the experiences of a
person in being in love most especially the pain, struggles, challenges and many more,
the author also consider the joy, freedom, and the fullness of the happiness that a
looking on the disadvantages and advantages of the things that a person commits.
The second book that would fall on the secondary source of the researcher was
about the concerning the hidden life of love as well as the duty that the love as the
sources of all action of man. Love per se is very metaphysical in concerning the effect
of a person. It goes beyond what is essential into our senses and pin point the main part
The duty of love in a human person focuses on the fruitfulness of the act. It
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loving, you can forgive and forget the wrong doings of a person who is important to
you and also you can forgive and forget the person who has done you wrong. This
values that a person can acquire in his or her experiences will taught him to forgive.
Experiences afford to give an opportunity in harmonizing the values that can be at help
in forgiving others.
The focus of this research is to identify why Filipinos forgive? It the researcher
chose to use this as a one of the foundation of his study because it helps him in
understanding the values of the Filipinos regarding in different aspects of their life. It
Philippines
In this article which the missionaries publish is also a big help in knowing the
values of the Filipinos. Truly in having a mission it takes a lot of values to mingle with
other people. Self-esteem, shyness, emotional debt or in tagalog utang na loob, and
lastly is the pakikisama, these values usually taught in the seminary. It helps a person
Self-esteem is one of the keys that a person must have. Seminarian, pastor, and
many more or not, self-esteem is a must in a person as they continue their journey in
this world. It makes a person sell himself especially in looking for jobs and promoting
their businesses.
Shyness is also needed but in a minor way, because now a day shyness is not
applicable for the people around us especially to the people who usually look forward
for their future. Shyness is applicable when there are things that you do not need and
being given. If there were things that a person commits without anything that bothers,
Emotional debt is a value that where people usually reminisce where they came
from. Those people who help them, people who formed, taught, guide, and love them
are the people whom they usually return the favours being done to them as their utang
na loob.
Pakikisama is a value that seems like you are putting your shoes to the shoes of
others. You are being versatile in dealing with other people. It is the wholeness of your
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around the globe serves as one way to resolve this predicament. Seminary then becomes a
training ground for young men who desire to follow Christ’s footsteps as priests in the
community life in the seminary is the most suitable context for preparing seminarians for
true priestly brotherhood. [ CITATION Con16 \l 13321 ]Furthermore, the community becomes
the seedbed of a priestly vocation, since the seminarian emerges from it, in order to be sent
back to serve it after ordination. [ CITATION Con16 \l 13321 ] The seminarian to begin with,
and later the priest, must gather and binds together and harmonizes the four dimensions of
formation. [ CITATION Con16 \l 13321 ] The four dimensions are namely; the human,
intellectual, Spiritual and Pastoral Dimensions. The priest then reveals all the learning
received from the formation for the people to whom he will be serving with. Herein, it lies
With these in mind, the reality of becoming a priest or an Alter Christus is never
fundamental formation that can be of great help to mold every aspirant to be responsible
pastors for the Church. This vital formation helps a seminarian toward the very aim of
the seminary formation, which is to form them as shepherds like Christ [ CITATION
Con16 \l 13321 ]. Another brief description regarding the seminary, may consider as the
form of men-disciples and missionaries-shepherds for the lay faithful. [ CITATION Con16 \l
13321 ]
Thus, in this book, the researcher will expose the four dimensions of the seminary
formation derived from the New Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis, Pastoris
Daba Vobis and the Updated Philippine program for Priestly formation. From here, the
social dimension of the seminary formation namely, human, spiritual, intellectual, and
One of the many important aspects to the formation of young men who are preparing
for priesthood is an awareness of their life in a different kind of community and the
development of relationships with the people whom they will be encountering as they go out
of the seminary. A seminary strives to provide seminarians with the support and direction
necessary to enhance their relationship with Jesus Christ and the Roman Catholic Church.
between self-identity and socialization. Personal values develop in tandem with social
virtues as a seminarian faces both his very self and various human situations in the world
[CITATION Cat06 \n \l 13321 ]. In order that his ministry may be down to Earth as credible and
acceptable as possible, it is important that the priest should mold his human personality in
such a way that it becomes a bridge and not an obstacle for the faithful in meeting with
The human formation of a seminarian in college must recognize the fact that he is in
a period of transition from adolescence to young adulthood, from dependence on family and
peers to personal freedom. In other words, a typical college seminarian is in search of his
identity and lives within the tensions that usually accompany that search [CITATION Cat06
\n \l 13321 ]. Growth in self-identity is best facilitated when the formation process pays
attention to a seminarian’s unique personal background and needs, which can become
prevent seminaries from forcing a seminarian into a programmed rigid mold of being
human. Instead, a college seminarian is best formed on the human level when accepted for
what he is and is helped to be open to personal change and to the creative use of his human
resources [CITATION Cat06 \n \l 13321 ] . Through this approach, it is hoped that a college
seminarian discovers his human condition and thereby respects his own person, other human
Through his daily contact with people, his sharing in their daily lives, the priest
needs to develop and sharpen his human sensitivity so as to understand more clearly their
needs, respond to their demands, perceive their unvoiced questions and share the hopes and
expectations, the joys and burdens which are part of life, these are the personalities that the
catholic faithful demands to the priests whom they are encountering, thus he will be able to
meet and enter into dialogue with all people [ CITATION IIJ \l 13321 ]. It is very important to
have an intellectual capabilities as a priest in the future but as the generation or the faithful
demanded to also have a priest that can be reach out during the time in need. An increase
case of suicide is some of the problems that the church is facing now a day, as the researcher
interviewed some high school students when he was conducting recollections to some
schools in Tarlac, one of the reasons why youth consider suicide as a solution to their
problems because of the weak emotional foundation of the children because they do not
have someone to talked to and trust with because they have some traumatic experiences
have their objective in forming men, whose lives find their core in personal and
transformative communion with God, and who seek to unite themselves with God’s saving
will in all aspects of their lives, especially through their contribution in the mission of Christ
Spiritual formation focused at nourishing and sustaining communion with God and
with the catholic faithful, in the friendship of Jesus the Good Shepherd, and with an attitude
of meekness to the Holy Spirit [ CITATION Con16 \l 13321 ]. This intimate relationship forms
the heart of the seminarian in possessing a personality of generousity and knowing what
sacrificial love that marks the beginning of pastoral charity [ CITATION Con16 \l 13321 ] . After
all, spiritual formation becomes the core that unifies the life of a priest, it stands at the heart
of seminary life that integrates to the other aspect of the seminary, human, intellectual, and
pastoral formation are necessary in developing the seminarian’s relationship with the
community, communion with God and the ability to communicate God’s truth and love to
others as the representation of the Good Shepherd and eternal High Priest. [ CITATION
Con16 \l 13321 ]
The formation of a seminarian recognizes that all the experiences of everyday life
contribute to the spiritual formation of the future priest and that he enters seminary already
with some spiritual formation, which is taken into account. The spiritual formation program
life of a priest, both public and personal. The program is designed to help seminarians
establish a mature spiritual life for himself with a view to continuing the discernment of his
vocation and acquiring foundations for the future. The central of this formation program is
to assist the seminarians develop his own relationship with Christ and to establish his own
spiritual life. The seminarians will also learn to appreciate a variety of spiritual styles in
As the college seminarian searches for self-identity and a sense of mission in life, he
realizes that human existence cannot find its fulfillment apart from its religious dimension.
The spiritual formation of a college seminarian aims to awaken and develop in him a sense
of the sacred in life through spiritual exercises and spiritual direction, so that he could be a
good Christian and be able to crystallize his decision to follow Jesus Christ as an ordained
An old proverb goes: “you cannot give what you do not have.” As regards to the
future ministry that each seminarian wishes to embrace someday, this old adage has
something to do with it. As future leaders of the Church, it is necessary for them to have
proper intellectual nourishment. Their minds must be filled with sufficient knowledge so
that they can be effective pastors of the Church. They have to be well equipped in all areas
of life so that they can effectively communicate the Gospel to the people whom they will be
The new Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis would tell the readers that
philosophy and theology, enough to allow them to proclaim the Gospel’s message with
credibility and understandable thoughts to the people who will be listening to them.
[ CITATION Con16 \l 13321 ] It seeks to enable them to enter into fruitful dialogue with the
contemporary world, and to defend the truth of the faith by the light of reason, thereby
revealing its beauty [ CITATION Con16 \l 13321 ]. For this reason, candidates for the priesthood
must prepare themselves with diligent attention, by deepening their knowledge of the
of his human and vocational life. It should be a preparatory and continuity in a theology
seminary. It should develop knowledge and skills necessary for theological studies
of human experience, of the world, and of history of the church that is still relevant in the
current situations.
The pastoral formation of a college seminarian aims to help him solve the questions
arousing in his stage in life, as he encounters the demands of service [ CITATION Con16 \l
13321 ]. As the famous dictum says “Experience is the Best Teacher” Pastoral exposure
to crystallize his mission, which can occur only when he has discovered the meaning of
service to others [ CITATION Con16 \l 13321 ]. It cannot be denied, however, that shepherding
is not yet a realistic goal, much less the primary goal of the pastoral formation of a college
seminarian. Rather, the emphasis lies in self-discovery through growth in service. [ CITATION
Con16 \l 13321 ]
The pastoral formation of a college seminarian provides an occasion for him to get in
touch with a wide range of human experiences. This exposure to human situations will
hopefully lead him to deepen his understanding into the questions and struggles of fellow
Filipinos. It also tries to nurture a seminarian’s affective relationship with people, with
particular attention to family, youth, women, and the poor. He learns to relate emotionaly,
remaining in touch with the emotions that human situations elicit from him. [CITATION
Cat06 \n \l 13321 ]
Through various forms of pastoral exposure, a seminarian is also initiated into the
political manipulations and structures of sin, which are very much present in the Philippines
[CITATION Cat06 \n \l 13321 ] . Through encounters with these various realities, a sense of
service that is oriented towards a community is hopefully inculcated. The regularity with
which pastoral work is done instills diligence, consistency and a sense of duty-marks of a
mature personality. Motivations for working are to be purified so that a seminarian may
learn to work for service, like Jesus, rather than for self-serving gains [CITATION Cat06 \n \l
13321 ]. Furthermore, it also helps in identifying and cultivating the personal charisma of a
seminarian. These gifts or talents are to be affirmed, while the seminarian is being properly
motivated to utilize them for the service of the common good. [CITATION Cat06 \n \l 13321 ]
The seminary aims to form good pastors committed to mission and a life of service
of God’s people. Pastoral formation is therefore not only concentrated on the challenges to
mission presented by the contemporary society, but also on the personal conversion of the
Related Studies
In this part of the research was been gathered on the thesis that was been conducted
people who took their masteral degree on Philosophy in University of Santo Thomas.
The following were the thesis gathered by the researcher in two Libraries where they
One of the studies that the researcher found that could be at help in strengthening
his research regarding the Hierarchy of Values of Max Scheler who can assist the
readers in going to the main point of this study. In this thesis of Samantha Schroeder
pointed out the importance of the heart in every human being. The heart has a big
effect in everything that a person is doing, especially when we are talking about the
It also dissects on the difference of the objectivity and the subjectivity of Love.
Philosophically speaking when we are talking about the objectivity of a certain scenery
while the subjective point of view it has a lot of suggestions or a divest interpretation
on it. That is why there are also objectivity and subjectivity regarding love, especially
when the satisfaction of the love that a person felt was just subjective to the point that
he is the only one who felt the love while the objective point of view of love is the
experiences of all that a certain community could conclude that the love that they are
Articles
regarding the values that Max Scheler proved, and to inform the reader that there must
be happiness in loving. One of the reasons why people fell in love is because of the
happiness that they feel whenever they are with someone or doing something. In here
the love will arises because of the joy and the passion that a person feels. It gives a
person interest in doing it as long as they are happy on it. Happiness is one of the keys
to remain and treasure the love that could give a person values. As what Aristotle said
Happiness is one of the keys or solution in the struggles that a person is facing in his
life. In decision making, people must consider their happiness on it because life is too
short to waste it and also when people chose the things that make him or her unhappy.
The last work of Manfred Fring that the researcher used as his source in making
this study in an objective point of view was the article of Fring entitled Ordo amoris of
Max Scheler translating it in English; it conveys that there is an order of Love. This
essay of Max Scheler pertains to the foundation of values. Borrowing the words of
Bro. Jhanril Villapando during the arguments between the researcher regarding the
source of values and he says that there will be no values if the person never experience
how to love or even give importance to someone or something. Everything may begin
with Love. The result of being in love has a lot of benefits that a man can get; the
The third article that the researcher chose was concerning about the Filipino values
by Lowel J. Domocmat. It gives the readers an insight regarding on the four prevailing
values of Filipinos. Namely the self-esteem or the amor propio, hiya, utang na loob,
and pakikisama.
These values of a Filipino have a big help in developing once self especially when
a seminarian was looking forward on the ministry that he will be facing in the future.
There were these values that can be a tool in making a good relationship between the
These values of the Filipinos are not just for the priesthood but also to the lay
people who wanted to extend their peripheral circle of friends. It reflects on the person
on how he or she was raised and also on how he or she was sensitive enough in dealing
with people with different cultures and traditions regarding the pakikisama of a person
to others.
Science now a day is progressive. There were value system before that fits the
needs in that era up until the point that the system would no longer suffice the answers
that the scientist questions. They kept on asking and asking for them to arrive on a new
and more acceptable system in a given era. Hence, scientist now a day noticed that
there is a need of a new Value System and Alana Zubrits make an article regarding
Value System for Conscious Design that concerns the modernity and the applicability
of a value system in the modern world. It gives a sufficient reasons and answer to the
Journals
research journal of the college of arts and sciences, San Beda College
In this journal which the researcher chose as a tool in strengthening his study
regarding the values of the Filipinos that represents the seminarians as their nationality
could be at help to understand the values system that the seminary has.
Gabriel Marcel focuses on the “loob” of a person. Translating the word “Loob”
in English it literally means “Inside”. It usually refers to the inner core or inside of a
things or space. Marcel focuses on the human person per se and not on the theoretical
or cognitive way of knowing what man is, and it could lead the readers in the
incarnation of the subjectivity of Marcel. It can be identified with the Filipino view of
the “Loob”. It gives the reader what the “Loob” affects the human being. The values
and the personality of the person will manifest on the actions that he or she is doing on
In this journal, it does not only focus on the ego or the self of a person but
rather it also gives a different point of view in dealing with the self. The self also
considers the others; it will lead the readers to the “Interpersonalism” and the
Gabriel Marcel will be one of the guidelines of the researcher in acquiring the values
that a human being that could acquire as the performance on his life. The
pakikipagkawpa – tao is not bounded with rules and regulation like on the seminary or
people who will manipulate others as to what they wanted to see in a person. But
rather, it is a long term process in knowing and acquiring through the experiences of a
others on how to deal with different people whom they encounter in their day to day
life.
Chapter III
METHODOLOGY
In this chapter the researcher presents the process of gathering the data
conducted in the Our Lady of Peace College Seminary, the subject of the study, the
tool that is used to collate all the data. All the data will be assessed and summed up to
help the researcher to lessen the burden in answering the problems given in this study.
Research Design
The research design that the researcher used as the tool of gathering data was the
qualitative design. Where in the study will be an objective one in proving the value
system of the Our Lady of Peace College Seminary, to know more about the divers
attitudes of the seminarian by conducting this research as to be part of their lives with
this process.
Thirty eight (38) seminarians of Our Lady of Peace College Seminary, San
Isidro, Tarlac City, and ages of these seminarians are from 16-24 years old, enrolled
during the school year 2019-2020 were chosen as the respondents of this study.
Research Instruments
The researcher used sources gathered from the different libraries such as
websites to make the instrument that focused on the Max Scheler’s Theory of Values.
Third, this study will expose the data of the survey to be made in the said seminary.
seminarian. The researcher depends more on the book, journals, manuals, data from
survey and other internet sources. Although surveys shall be limited to Our Lady of
Peace College Seminary, this study shall serve as a model for other seminarians.
The researcher gathered the name, age, length of years in the seminary, place
of birth and members of the seminary to know the profile of the respondents.
The primary instrument of this study was an interview question. The researcher
Theory of Values. The interview consisted of: 1) Importance of values, 2) Living out
seminarians during their stay inside of the seminary and also outside of the seminary.
To gather the data needed in this study, first the researcher asked the rector of
the Our Lady of Peace College Seminary to allow the said research to be conducted in
this seminary. Upon the approval of the rector, the researcher will give each
In identifying the values that would be the prime source in answering the values
problem, a questionnaire checklist, was prepared and validated. The seminarians were
asked to check honestly the values that they have encountered from outside and inside
of the seminary.
First, the profile of the respondents based on the survey gathered by the
researcher grounded on the values that the respondents learned from their place of
birth as well as the learning of the values they acquire inside of the seminary will be
exposed in this study and to determine if they are Ilocanos, Kapampangans and the
The second, the researcher developed an interview questions form Max Scheler
theory of values in gathering the data regarding the learning values of the seminarian.
Also, the responses of the seminarians were gathered, sorted and compiled to draw the
data.
Third, from the results findings in the interview, conclusion was drawn to
generalize the study conducted by the researcher. The data on the values that the
seminary can provide to the seminarians will be assessed to attain the objective values
that every seminarian of the Our Lady of Peace College Seminary can produce.
Lastly, also from the findings of the interview, an implication drew for the
In this chapter, it deals with the detailed analysis of the data gathered through
based on the philosophy of Max Scheler and the self-explanatory of the researcher based on
the survey that was conducted at Our Lady of Peace College Seminary are presented in this
chapter.
From the data gathered, here are the profile of the seminarians.
1.1. Name
1.2. Age
4. What imp
Chapter V
On the last chapter of this thesis focused on the conclusion gathered on the survey
as well as the philosophy of Max Scheler, on how the seminarians of Our Lady of Peace
College Seminary practise values being taught in the seminary to their day to day living
Conclusion
Based on the salient result of the study,The community of the Our Lady of Peace
College Seminary was being reminded on the importance of “Values” being taught in the
seminary that must be applied to their future ministry. The seminary imposed rules and
regulation for the seminarians to be prepared as they go out of the seminary. It formed them
to be really human and to avoid a kind of human who just goes with the flow in terms of
their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspect in dealing with the chaotic world. The
seminary formed the seminarians to build their own principles in life that they will bring as
they grow old and something that marked their name in every places that they belong to. It
manifest when no one is around to guard a seminarian regarding on the responsibilities that
The seminarians were bounded by the demands of the seminary that would help each of
them to undergone pressure as so to be used on the pressures that the world could give to
them. These demands would be a test on how they act accordingly as the pressure embraced
them. The implication of the values being taught in the seminary reveal during their
immersion to different places such as their apostolate areas also to their one month
The seminary helps a seminarian concerning his human formation through the four
gentleman to be truly human. The seminary was the foundational weapon of seminarians in
dealing with the rapid development of technologies as well as the shifting of each
generation. It would be the seed of each seminarians as their feet their selves on the rapid
better person. It gives each seminarian ample time to learn and prove themselves that they
have the credibility to be on their own. It helps the seminarians to be responsible enough
The seminary is composes of the formation, formators, and the formandee. It prepares a
seminarian to deal with the issues outside of the seminary, intellectually, spiritually,
physically and most especially spiritually, in here the priests in process will be the defender
of the catholic faith against the gadfly of the universal church. A seminarian gave a glimpse
of what seminary is to the other people especially when seminarians went out and immerses
them within a society. The seminarians were bringing with them the name of the seminary
Recommendation
Based on the conclusion of the survey that was conducted and analyzed, the researcher was
1. The administration of the Our Lady of Peace College Seminary could develop the
formation that would fit to the need of the church now a day.
2. The formators of the seminary could examine their way of forming a seminarian to
3. The formators may also evaluate on how a seminarian act within a society.
4. The formators may help a seminarian decide for their own as he observe the
him.
5. The seminarians may examine their performance whether they were doing in
6. The seminarians may be reminded by the values that the seminary was imposing to
them.
7. The seminarians may learn the values that a priest in process must acquire.
8. The seminarians can have a basis on what the values being taught in the seminary.
9. Finally, to the future researchers, may use the results of the study as sources in
conducting future researches like this type but with different respondents, and with
different location.
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