FREEDOM

HUMAN PERSON IN THE SOCIETY

MS. JHOHANAH R. BEDIONES
PHILO 001 – DPRO OLIVAREZ COLLEGE
FREEDOM
Freedom in a political and social
context means the freedom of an
individual from oppression, compulsion,
or coercion from other persons, an
authority figure, or from society itself.
FREEDOM
POLITICAL FREEDOM CONSISTS OF TWO TYPES OF
LIBERTIES.
POSITIVE LIBERTY REFERS TO A PERSON TAKING
CONTROL OF HIS OR HER OWN LIFE AND FULFILLING
ONE’S POTENTIAL.
NEGATIVE LIBERTY, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS
FREEDOM FROM EXTERNAL RESTRAINT, BARRIERS,
AND OTHER INTERFERENCES FROM OTHER PEOPLE.
POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES WAS
INFLUENCED BY VARIED IDEAS ON HUMAN LIBERTY:
•LIBERALISM
•LIBERTARIANISM
•SOCIALISM
LIBERALISM
Liberalism upholds the
preservation of individual rights
and stresses the role of the
government in protecting these
civil liberties.
LIBERTARIANISM
Believes that the individual, not
the government, is the best judge
in upholding and exercising rights.
SOCIALISM
Socialism considers freedom as the
freedom to acquire economic
resources and the ability to work and
act according to one’s desires.
FREEDOM
FREEDOM ALSO ENTAILS THE
RECOGNITION OF CERTAIN RIGHTS AND
ENTITLEMENTS OF PERSONS.
•NATURAL RIGHTS
•LEGAL RIGHTS
NATURAL RIGHTS
Refer to rights which are innate in
the person such as the right to life.
These rights are considered
universal and inalienable.
LEGAL RIGHTS
Rights that are based on
society’s customs and laws, and
are enacted by legislation and
enforced by a government. The
enjoyment of these rights is
based on citizenship.
THEOLOGICAL
VIEWS
THEOLOGICAL VIEWS
Freedom is freedom from sin and living
a life of righteousness. Christians define
freedom in the context of living
accordance with the will of god. We are
free from our sins because someone
died for us at the cross.
PHILOSOPHICAL
VIEWS
ARISTOTLE
The Power of Volition
The imperative quality of a judgment
of practical intellect is meaningless,
apart from will.
ARISTOTLE
Aristotle relate human freedom to the
concept of human agency, which refers
to the capacity of a person to act and
exert control over his or her behavior
ARISTOTLE

Human being is rational.

Reason is a divine characteristic.
Humans have a spark of a divine.
ARISTOTLE
Human freedom is expressed in two
ways:
2. free will (the capacity to choose from
alternatives)
2. free action (the freedom to perform
an action without any obstacles)
ARISTOTLE
INTELLECT
Therefore no intellect, no
will.
JEAN PAUL SARTRE
Freedom is exercising your capacity to
choose bounded that you fully
understood the consequences of any
path you will take.
JEAN PAUL SARTRE
EXISTENTIALISM- FREEDOM, CHOICES,
INDIVIDUALITY.

“YOU ARE A PRODUCT OF YOUR

CHOICES”
JEAN PAUL SARTRE

Individual Freedom
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

Real freedom is choosing and doing

what is right and avoiding wrong deeds.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
Aquinas establishes the existence of
God as first cause. Of all God’s creation,
human beings have the unique power to
change for themselves.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
As humans, We are both material and
spiritual. We have conscience because
of our spirituality. God is love and love is
our destiny.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

Love is freedom
Spiritual Freedom
Thomas Hobbes
Theory of Social Contract
A Law of Nature (lex naturalis)
1. Given our desire to get out of the state of nature, and
thereby preserve their lives, We should seek peace.
2. We mutually divest ourselves of certain rights to
achieve peace. That person be willing, when others so
too, to lay down this right to all thing; and be contented
with so much liberty against other people, as he would
allow other people against himself.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Theory of Social Contract
1. Individual Rights
2. Democracy
3. General Will
SEATWORK
I. Liberty
State at least 10-15 personal
situations/ experience that can be
labeled as positive (5-8) and negative
(5-8) liberty?
SEATWORK
II. Political Ideologies
Draw an object that could describe the
three political ideologies. And give a brief
explanation.
Liberalism
Libertarianism
Socialism
SEATWORK
III. Philosophical View
Among the following philosophers
(Aristotle, Sartre, Rousseau, Hobbes,
Aquinas) which is your preferred
view/s? Why?
Philo 001 task:
1. Recitation Index Card
2. PT 1: Freedom Wall
3. Quiz 1: Social Contract
4. Seatwork 1-2-3: Filler (Liberty, Political Ideology and
Philosophical View)
5. Ass 1: Do you believe in destiny?
6. Quiz 2: Debate
7. PT 2: I am for sale, I am the freebie