ppt on human person

1. Human Person’s
Freedom

2. Kinds of Freedom
• Physical Freedom. It refers to the absence of any physical restraint. Meaning, it
allows us to move from one place to another and to go wherever we want to go.
• Psychological Freedom. The person is free to perform actions that he or she
considers right and wise. This freedom is innate or natural and cannot be denied.
This is also called freedom of choice.
• Moral Freedom. It refers to using freedom in a manner that upholds human dignity
and goodness. We are become more free when we use our freedom well, but becomes
less free when we use it in a bad way.

3. Elements of Freedom
• Voluntariness
- This is the ability of a person to act out of his or her own free will and self-
determination. This means that a person may decide to act or not to act, and these
decisions are made out of his or her own free will. Voluntariness also means that a
person may act even if he or she is not required or called to take action.

4. Elements of Freedom
• Responsibility
- It refers to the person being accountable for his or her actions and their
consequences. Taking responsibility can either mean a person voluntarily taking
responsibility for his or her own actions, or being held responsible by other people.
Voluntariness and responsibility go hand-in-hand in determining freedom, when we
are in a situation where we are forced to do an action against on our will it follows
that we are not be held responsible for our involuntary actions.

5. Human Acts
• According to Dimson (2015), a human act is referred to as the human activity of
man as man by which he obtains an end he wants to obtain. Human acts are the
rational acts of human person which involve understanding and free will. Human
act can be morally good or morally bad.

6. Three essential attributes of Human Acts:
• 1. Knowledge. It is performed consciously.
• 2. Free will. It is performed freely.
• 3. Voluntary. It is done willfully.

7. 9
Acts of Man
• Acts of man are instinctive or involuntary. These are actions done under the circumstances of
ignorance, fear, passion, violence, habits and physical and biological movements.
• Ignorance – Lack of knowledge in a certain thing.
• Fear – It is a mental disorder brought on by the apprehension of some present or imminent
danger.
• Passion – Considered as mental responses, either tendencies towards
• desirable objects or tendencies away from undesirable objects.
• Violence – Is a forced exerted on a person by another person in order to compel him to perform a
certain action against his will.
• Habits – Is a constant that tends to influence one to perform repeatedly
• similar actions.