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- 1. FREEDOM OF CHOICEAND ITS CONSEQUENCES PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
- 2. OBJECTIVES At the endof the lesson you should be able to: Define freedom and explain the freedom of the human person. Prove that all actions and choices have consequences. Evaluate and exercise prudence in choice Realize that some things are given up while others are obtained in making choices Show situations that demonstrate
- 3. Imagine you wona big contest, and you were asked to choose just one of the following prizes:
- 4. A luxurycar with a non- transferable contract. A 4-year college educational scholarship at any school in the Philippines. A one-month all-expense paid to three European countries. • Which prize will you choose? • What factors made you come up with that decision? Let us find out the answers !
- 5. In the previousexample, you were asked to choose just one prize. Seemingly all of them are great prizes. However if you will weigh the pros and cons of each, you will easily realize that one maybe better than the other Learn about it!
- 6. Status symbol, butthere is high cost of maintenance and the burden of Gasoline Luxury Car European Trip Fun but impractical 4-yr Scholarship Best choice. It is long term and useful.
- 7. In choosing whichprize to get, you have already exercised your freedom to make decisions. HOWEVER, It is important to realize that the choices you make have corresponding consequences.
- 8. The power orright to act, speak, or think as you want without hindrance or restraint is called FREEDOM.
- 9. The ability toexercise one’s freedom is called FREEDOM OF CHOICE. By law, all human beings are entitled to make decisions for themselves in whatever way they choose to.
- 10. The only exceptionto this rule is when one’s absolute choice harms or delimits the self and others. Freedom of choice also includes the way one acts towards another. All forms of actions, therefore, are brought about by a person’s decision to accomplish them. All decisions, big or small, have corresponding consequences which may be good or bad
- 11. Two concepts of FREEDOM (IsaiahBerlin) NEGATIVE FREEDOM -Freedom from interference or restrictions - Freedom from control by others POSITIVE FREEDOM - Freedom to control oneself - to be one’s own master - Man is positively free only when the higher self is in command
- 12. FREEDOM AND CONSCIOUS SELF- AWARENESS SELF-AWARENESS - knowledge of one’s own existence and one’s environment. - “knowing that you know” -Determines whether a particular being is free or not. - It is what separates us from animals.
- 13. SELF - AWARENESS Dueto self awareness • We are aware that we are aware of something • We are able to judge if our choices are good or bad, advantageous or disadvantageous.
- 14. SELF - AWARENESS Withoutself awareness • We would not recognize the value of our decisions • We will be consigned to an existence that is fully determined by our environment • We would not feel remorse for our failures. • We would not hope for future ambitions.
- 15. SELF - AWARENESS Importanceto Human Freedom • Self awareness gives us the capacity to imagine possibilities and alternatives to our present conditions • These possibilities and alternatives are the reasons why we have choices to make.
- 16. FREEDOM and AUTONOMY AUTONOMY Autos –self Nomos - law • The ability to choose in accordance with one’s own motivation. • the capacity to be one's own person, to live one's life according to reasons and motives that are taken as one's own and not the product of manipulative or distorting external forces. • To be autonomous is to have the FREEDOM to act in accordance with one’s own values, beliefs and principles
- 17. FREEDOM and LIMITATIONS NATURAL LIMITATIONS •Being Human, Growing old, Diseases, Death, Form of your body, Our existence, INTERPERSONAL LIMITATIONS • Parents, Family, Personality, Friends, Body Type, Height, Skin color, SOCIO-HISTORICAL EVENTS • Time of Birth, Language,Culture, Society, Religious beliefs, Technology Things you can no longer change
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- 19. Of course ourfreedom is limited. FIRST, we are limited by our own human abilities and the physical laws to which we are subjected. We cannot fly like a bird, regardless of how hard we try.
- 20. Second, some actionsare explicitly prohibited, or sometimes mandated, by the laws to which we are subjected. As a Filipino citizen, I have to pay my taxes; I cannot commit murder in the first degree; and so on.
- 21. Now, it isworth asking: How are these limits? Is it an exercise of freedom, properly speaking, to indulge into fantasies like flying like a bird, or to murder someone? Or is it delusional or beyond the realm of freedom proper?
- 22. If I knowwhat is possible and what is not possible; what is within my power to control and what is out of it; then I can adjust my mind to that, and make decisions that shall never be met with contradiction. Hence I shall be absolutely free.
- 23. FREEDOM ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY Yourfreedom affects others. Your decisions affect other people’s lives! In making decisions and exercising freedom of choice, determine the adverse effects (short-term or long- term) beforehand. Exercise Prudence in your choices!
- 24. SUMMARY • Self-awareness providesus with AUTONOMY and RESPONSIBILITY • Our past and other external forces in our environment influence our behavior but they cannot fully determine our choices. • Our choices and decisions are based on our own motivations. • We are accountable for our own choices in life.
- 25. SUMMARY • Genuine freedominvolves our responsibility towards others. • Being Free requires prudence in our choices • To develop prudence is to develop our ability to carefully consider the short and long term consequences of our actions.