I n t r o d u c t i o n t o P h i l o s o p h y o f

t h e H u m a n P e r s o n

FREEDOM OF THE
HUMAN PERSON
Q u a r t e r 2 – M o d u l e 5

M.A. ESPIRITU
 LESSON 1
Definition of Freedom and It’s Kind
Learning Competency: Realize that “all actions have consequences”. (PPT11/12-IIa-5.1)

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Activity 1
Draw Me A Picture. Draw the picture asked and
answer the guide questions. Place your answer in
your activity notebook.

Draw a picture of a bird

inside a cage.

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GUIDE QUESTIONS
In relation to freedom what do you think
does your drawing means?

What do you think is the difference if the

bird is inside the cage and if it is outside?

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What is Freedom?

• The ability to make choices and perform

those choices.
• The ability to be what we want and to
decide and create oneself.
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Two concepts that will help us fully
understand freedom:
Freedom itself
According to Merriam Dictionary, it is the quality or state of
being free. It is our capacity to choose of what we wanted and
an inner awareness of what is right and wrong that is traced to
our free will according to Aristotle. It is also an intrinsic and an
essential property of a human person which basically means, it
is a part of our human nature.

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EXAMPLE:
Freedom itself
Think of yourself as a student, your teacher told you to study
your lessons for the day for you will have a long quiz the next
meeting. However, as you reached home you find yourself
having a good time doing Facebook and online chatting with
your friends. Using your freedom, you can either choose to
follow your teacher’s advice to study your lessons for your quiz
the next morning or continue doing the thing which you find
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Two concepts that will help us fully
understand freedom:
Free Will
Our free will allows us to decide on things we do
depending on the situation. It is our ability to choose
between two different possible courses of action,
independently. Simply put it, free will is our ability to
choose things according to our moral reasoning.

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Two concepts that will help us fully
understand freedom:
Free Will
To sum it all, our freedom then could trace down in a person’s exercise of his
rationality/intellect and free will. Simply that individual actions as it is freely
chosen by an individual it then defines who and what kind of person one is.
We all are free to choose, to be good person and act on it accordingly or be a
bad person and act in a bad way. As our actions and choices reflects us doing
what is good and acting on it is what makes you a good person while on the
other hand doing the negative will also give a negative impression to an
individual. This has been tackled on the previous lesson that self-
determination or the ability to choose on what is right and wrong, that a
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person’s action determines what kind of person he or she becomes.
KINDS OF FREEDOM

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 Physical Freedom
Physical freedom refers to the absence of any
physical restraint. The person has the freedom
of mobility to go where he or she wants to go.
He or she is not impeded in his or her actions by
any physical force. Granted that the person has
natural limitations, physical freedom allows
him or her to act and move in determined
manner. You cannot be everywhere at once, but
your freedom allows you to move one place to
another and to go whenever you want to go.

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 Psychological Freedom

Psychological freedom is also called freedom of

choice. The person is free to perform actions
that he or she considers right and wise. A
person is also free to act or not to act.
Psychological freedom is innate and cannot be
denied to a person. No outside force or
influence can compel a person to take action
against his or her will.

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 Moral Freedom
Moral freedom refers to using freedom in a manner
that upholds human dignity and goodness. Freedom is
not an object that a person may use in whatever way
he or she pleases. A person must use his or her
freedom to grow as a person. A person becomes freer
when he or she uses freedom well, but becomes less
free when he or she uses it in a bad way. Humans have
a natural inclination for what is true and good, and
when a person uses his or her freedom to do acts that
violates human dignity and goodness, he or she
dehumanizes himself or herself and effectively
negates human freedom.

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 Activity 2: My Reflection
Write your reflection in your activity notebook.
Take a look at the pictures below. What can you say about the pictures? Have
you been in this kind of situation? What are the things you considered in
making choices? Write your reflection in your activity notebook.

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 LESSON 2
Definition of Freedom and It’s Kind
Learning Competencies: Evaluate and exercise prudence in choices (PPT11/12-IIa-5.2) (PPT11/12-IIb-5.3)
Realize that:
a. Choices have consequences
b. b. Some things are given up while others are obtained in making choices

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 Activity 1: It’s Me!
Read the situation below and answer the questions after
it. Write your answer in your activity notebook.

One of the barangays in your Municipality

was struck by an earthquake. Your school
will be conducting an outreach activity to
help the affected families and they need a
lot of manpower. With this, they are asking
for student volunteers who would want to
join the said outreach activity.
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 Activity 1: It’s Me!
Read the situation below and answer the questions after
it. Write your answer in your activity notebook.

1. Would you volunteer to the said

activity? Why or why not?
2. What do you think drives you to join or
not join the activity?
3. If you choose to volunteer to the
activity, what are the responsibilities
that you can associate to your act of
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There are two elements that
define freedom

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 Voluntariness
It is the ability of a person to act of his or her
own free will and self-determination. A
person may decide to do things or not to do
it according to his own free will. It also
means that even though she/he is not
required to do such things he/she could still
do it or take action on it.

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 Voluntariness
Voluntary acts are free acts which can be assigned
a corresponding moral value. One must always
remember that in every action we make, in every
choice we make there is an equivalent
consequence. These consequences affect not just
the individual who does the decision but also
other people in their surroundings. With that, one
must always accept the consequences that results
from his or her decisions or actions and take
responsibility for them.
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 Responsibility
Responsibility refers to the person being
accountable for his or her action and their
consequences. Taking responsibility can
mean either you take responsibility to your
action voluntarily or other people will hold
you responsible. For example, if you made a
bad action it’s either you take responsibility
of it or other people will hold you
responsible for it.
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There are important factors to consider in
the exercise of freedom.
These are Prudence and Self-reflection.

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 Prudence

is the ability to govern and discipline

oneself with the use of reason; it is
having caution and giving good
judgments in making decisions.

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 Prudence
Because once we made a decision
there is no turning back, there is no
rewind, so we should always reflect
first on the possible outcomes of the
choices that we are going to make.
Self-reflection is very important in
exercising freedom.
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 Self-Reflection
allows us to be more rational in making
choices, because sometimes human beings
tend to be slaves by their emotions and
moods whenever they act certain things. As
free beings, exercising our freedom
responsibly is very important. Thus, it
requires us to reflect on the actions that we
are going to make by considering its possible
effects and the benefits it has to the people
affected by it.
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 Activity 2: My Personal Timeline
As a student, you have made some
important life decisions in the past. Make a
time-line of major decisions in your life
and below the line then write down the
consequence of those particular decisions.

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 LESSON 3
Exercising Freedom in a Responsible and
Beneficial Manner
Learning Competency: Show situations that demonstrate freedom of choice and the consequences of their choices.
(PPT11/12-IIc-5.4)

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 Activity 1: Picture Analysis
Analyze the picture below and answer the
questions asked. Write your answers in your
activity notebook.

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 Guide Questions
What do you think is the message the
picture below is trying to convey?

How do you think does the picture relates to

the previous lesson?

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 Freedom should be exercised with
control and reasonable limits.

As humans, we enjoy freedom, but we need

to understand that it is not absolute.
Meaning, we should exercise our freedom
with control and reasonable limits.

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 Freedom should be exercised with
control and reasonable limits.
EXAMPLE
1. A student may be first in line in a grocery store but
chooses to give way to an elderly woman next to her.
2. You may be very upset to a friend for losing a thing she
borrowed but refuses to confront her because you
already know that she already feels bad of herself for
the thing she had done.
3. You may be very angry with your teacher for scolding
you in front of the entire class, but you refrained from
answering back at him/her since it will be considered
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 Freedom should be exercised with
control and reasonable limits.
Giving limits to our personal freedom simply
means sacrificing certain self-interest and
accept that there are things beyond our
control. Our ability to think and know what is
right and what is wrong serves as guide in
recognizing and deciding the limitations of
our freedom.
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 Freedom should be exercised with
regard for knowledge and truth.

As a rational beings, it is natural for us to

think before we act. We use our freedom to
acquire knowledge, which in turn are useful
in making right and sound decisions
essential in dealing with our life situations.

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 Freedom should be exercised with
regard for knowledge and truth.
Example:

To correctly answer a multiple-choice item in

an examination, a student has to study
his/her lessons. Otherwise, he/she cannot
answer the test

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 Freedom should be exercised with
regard for knowledge and truth.
We should also be equipped with the ability to
acquire information and truthful knowledge
because it will aid us in making wise and informed
choices.

Example: In casting our votes during SSG election,

we will not vote to a candidate because of she/he
is attractive or appealing but because she/he is
knowledgeable on the important school issues.
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 Freedom should be exercised to
uphold the freedom of others.

Freedom is recognized and guaranteed right for all

persons. Meaning, freedom should be enjoyed by
all. But it is important to remember that freedom
should be exercised not as a tool to restrict the
freedom of others, but as a means to enable
others to fully enjoy their own freedom.

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 Freedom should be exercised to
uphold the freedom of others.
Example:

A teacher doing his/her class discussion under the

Narra tree instead of having it inside the
classroom.

You shared your hard-earned money to cater the

needs of your friend who is in dire needs of it for
the realization of his/her school project.
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 Activity 2: Next to?
Write your answer in your activity notebook.

Reflect in yourself the given actions below and

give possible consequences on the given actions.

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Activity 2: Next to?

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 Thank you
Mirjam Nilsson
206-555-0146
mirjam@contoso.com
www.contoso.com

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