Human Dignity, Rights,

and the Common Good

 OBJECTIVES:
1. recognize the value of human dignity,
human rights and promote the
common good
 “ALL HUMAN BEINGS ARE BORN
FREE AND EQUAL IN DIGNITY AND
RIGHTS”
 QUALITIES

NEEDS

WANTS
HUMAN
 HUMAN DIGNITY
respect and acknowledgement of
an individual person, a
human being.
 HUMAN DIGNITY
An idea that a person has an innate
right to be valued, respected and
treated well.
 HUMAN DIGNITY
It is something that can’t be taken
away , each person must be free
from slavery, manipulation and
exploitation.
When a person is meted out a
death sentence, it is the State
that ends the life of that man.
Killing someone is a capital crime.
Killing many people is a massacre.
Killing an entire race is genocide
VIOLATIONS AGAINTS
HUMAN DIGNITY
 1. HUMILIATION
referto acts that humiliate or diminish the
self-worth of a person or a group.
injuries to people's self-worth or their self-
esteem
 2. DEGREDATION
acts that degrade the value of human
beings
diminishes the importance or value of all
human beings.
selling oneself to slavery,
 3. DEHUMANIZATION
 acts
that strip a person or a group of their
human characteristics
 describing animals or as
or treating people as
a lower type of human beings
3. DEHUMANIZATION
occurredin genocides such as the
Holocaust and in Rwanda where
the minority were compared to
insects.
 4. OBJECTIFICATION
This aspect refers to treating a
person as an instrument or as
means to achieve some other
goal.
 torture, rape, social
exclusion, labor
exploitation, bonded labor,
and slavery
 HOW DO WE BECAME KAPWA
TO OTHERS?

We must respect and honor dignity . All religions

teach the value of life. Our cultures make us
human and humane and most societies reserve
and uphold the principles of dignity, equality and
liberty.
HUMAN RIGHTS
 RIGHTS
Are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom
or entitlement; are the fundamental normative rules
about what is allowed of people or owed to people,
according to some legal system.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Human Rights are natural rights
of all human beings whatever
their nationality, religion,
ethnicity, sex, language and
color.
 BILL OF
RIGHTS
Sometimes called a declaration of
rights or a charter of rights, is a list of the
most important rights to the citizens of a
country.
 BILL OF
RIGHTS
The Bill of Rights in the Philippine
Constitution lays down the basic
human rights of Filipinos guaranteed
and protected by the State.
 CLASSES OF
HUMAN RIGHTS
 1. Natural Rights-
Rights inherent to man and
given to him by God as
human being.
1. Natural Rights-
EXAMPLE:
Right to live, love and be happy
2. Statutory Rights-
Rights provided by the
law making body of a
country or by law.
2. Statutory Rights-
EXAMPLE:
such as the right to receive a
minimum wage and right to
preliminary investigation.
3. Constitutional Rights-
Rights guaranteed under
the fundamental charter
of the country.
 3. Constitutional Rights-
EXAMPLE:
rights against unreasonable
searches and confiscation, rights
safeguarding the accused.
CLASSIFICATION OF
CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHTS
 1. Civil Rights-
These are rights
specified under the
Bill of rights.
 1. Civil Rights-
Secures private individuals for
the purpose of securing
enjoyment of their means of
happiness.
 1. Civil Rights-
Rights enjoyed by an individual
by virtue of his citizenship in a
state or community.
EXAMPLE:
freedom of speech,
right to information
2. Social & Economic
Intended to ensure the
well-being & economic
security of an individual
2. Social & Economic
Rights to property,
whether personal, real or
intellectual.
2. Social & Economic
Right to use and dispose his
property, right to practice one’s
profession, right to make a
living.
3. Political Rights-
rights an individual enjoys as
a consequence of being a
member of body politics.
3. Political Rights-
Right to vote and right to
be voted into public
office.
4. Rights of the Accused
Intended for the
protection of a person
accused of any crime.
 BILL OF
RIGHTS
The Bill of Rights in the
Philippine Constitution lays down
the basic human rights of Filipinos
guaranteed and protected by the
State.
 SOME IMPORTANT
RIGHTS:
1. FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
2. RIGHT TO ASSEMBLY & TO
JOIN PROTEST
 SOME IMPORTANT
RIGHTS:
3. THE RIGHTS OF THE
ACCUSED TO A FAIR TRIAL
4. RIGHTS AGAINTS SLAVERY &
INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE
 COMMON GOOD
The sum of those conditions of social life
which allow social groups and their
individual members, relatively thorough
and ready access to their own fulfilment.
 ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS:
KEY ELEMENTS:
1. PUBLIC ORDER
2. PROSPERITY
3. INTELLECTUAL,SPIRITUAL & MORAL
VALUES
 MATERIAL PROSPERITY ASPECTS
SEEKS TO DO THE FOLLOWING:

1.To provide employment for as

many workers as possible;
2.To take care of the least privileged
groups;
 MATERIAL PROSPERITY ASPECTS
SEEKS TO DO THE FOLLOWING:
3. To maintain a balance between wages
and prices
4. To make accessible the goods &
services for a better life to as many
person as possible.
 INTELLECTAUL & MORAL
1.General education;
2.The development of intellectual, humanistic
& technical aspect of individual
3.Development of soul, conscience & will
Access & affordable public health care
system
Effective system of public safety &
security
Peace among nations
Just political system
Unpollutednatural
environment
Flourishing economic
system