Freedom and

Responsibility
Members:

Baldesancho, Kristine Grace

Calanza, Christine Mae
Custodio, Maegene
Dela Cruz, John Ray
Gumadlas, Denrey
 Learning Objectives 

• To understand the importance of

freedom to make choices;
• To identify the interrelationship between
freedom and responsibility;
• To learn about different kinds of
responsibility.
Determinism

• Human beings - determined in nature

and action by factors over which they
have no control;
• Conflicts with the common sense view
that humans can make choices, are
responsible for their actions.
Freedom

• Helps a human being become a moral agent;

• Our free choices help us:
• To shape our lives;
• To form who we are;
• To build character;
• To create our identity;
• To grow and mature.
 Catechism on
Freedom
“The more one does what is good, the freer
one becomes. There is no freedom except in
the service of what is good and just. The
choice to disobey and do evil is an abuse of
freedom and leads to the slavery of sin.”
C.C.C. 1733
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Types of
Freedom
 TYPES OR FREEDOM
Inner
External
Freedom
Freedom
refers to the
freedom to be all refers to freedom of
we can possibly be action, the freedom
to do what we can
possibly do.
 Threats to Freedom

Internal External
• Ignorance • Oppression
• Fear • Injustice
• Habit • Prejudice
• Inadvertence • Poverty
• Addiction • Tyranny
Modern Society on Freedom

• Creates enormous amount of choices – danger of

being enslaved;
• Emphasis on “freedom of choice” – over “right to
life”;
• Absolute reliance on self - excessive individualism;
• Mentality of “doing whatever I want to do”;
Limits of Human
freedom

-- The amount of freedom we

have to make choices is
limited by our responsibilities
to others. --
 Personal Responsibility

• You can determine what kind of person you

are and want to become;
• It is up to you to become a person of good
character.
 Moral Responsibility

• Defending and Helping

• Caring and Building
• Protecting and Preserving
• Sustaining
• Treating justly and equally
• Honoring and respecting
 Legal responsibility

• To the laws and ordinances

(community, state, country);
• If a law is outdated – work at
changing it and improving it;
Family Responsibilities

• Treating family members with

respect;
• Following rules;
• Doing chores and duties.
 Community responsibility

• Apply the golden rules

• Participating in community’s
activities and decisions;
• Being an active and
contributing citizen.
 • Roots of the family,
Responsibility community, heritage, faith;
to customs, • Do your best to respect and BE OBEDIENT
BE KIND AND
beliefs follow them.
HAVE
RESPECT.
traditions
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
GODBLESS EVERYONE!