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
refer to 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 or treating people as
animals or 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
Flourishingeconomic
system