The document explores the concept of freedom, touching on its various forms: political, economic, social, emotional, and spiritual. It discusses differing philosophical views on freedom, including determinism, libertarianism, and compatibilism, while raising questions about the nature of choice and the conflict between free will and necessity. The text also highlights the complexity of defining true freedom and its implications on human behavior and morality.

1. FREEDOM
OF THE
HUMAN PERSON

2. QUESTIONS:
When was the time you felt most free?
When was the time you felt unfree?

4. Human Beings have a deep desire to be
free, but freedom is often abused
term

5. Question:
What truly is freedom?

6. THE NATURE OF FREEDOM
 Does freedom means:
- The ability to choose our own government
- Being able to live our own personal
lifestyle.
- Being safe and secure from evils that
threaten us like disease, poverty, and
political expression.

7. MEANING OF FREEDOM Freedom
 is a word with many meanings.
 There is:
 Political
 Economic
 Social
 Emotional
 spiritual

8. QUESTIONS:
Does freedom mean the ability to do
whatever we choose? Or is it the
ability to do what we ought to do?

9. FREEDOM OF CHOICE
 Deals with freedom of thought
 Freedom of will

10. REAL FREEDOM
 Are we really free?
 We have to deal with freedom of
choice or freedom of will

13. PROBLEM OF FREEDOM AND
NECESSITY
 There is a conflict between our feeling of
freedom and the many reasons that seem
to suggest that our actions are not free.
 REWARD vs. PUNISHMENT

14. There are basically three views on
this issue between free will and
necessity:
 Determinism
Libertarianism
Compatibilism

15. DETERMINISM
 Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, including
human cognition and behavior, decision and action, is casually determined by
an unbroken chain of prior occurrences.

16. LIBERTARIANISM
 Libertarianism is the view that humans have free will,
and that we have the freedom to choose what we
want, and that our choices are not pre-determined. It
allows the existence of the concepts of “good” and
“evil” because people have the capacity to do either
of those with the ability to have chosen the
alternative. Many religious people are Libertarianists
and some use the existence of free will as proof of a
divine creator.

17. An Example
 Suppose, that someone thinks that Bible forbids same-sex marriage. Rawls
would say that even if the majority agrees with this view, it can’t impose it
on others. They wouldn’t accept what the Bible says as a reason.
 This doesn’t mean you have to come up with reasons that absolutely
everyone could acknowledge. You only have t provide reasons to reasonable
people. Rawls calls this process public reason.

18. COMPATIBILISM
 Compatibilists believe that freedom and responsibility are in very significant
sense compatible with determinism; thus there is no conflict between
determinism and free will