Chapter 4: Human Freedom in the Context of Prudence and Temperance - Paglilimi at

Pamumuhayng Sapat

I. Freedom is not...

1. Freedom is not the right to say or do anything but the right to do good.

2. Freedom is not merely freedom from. It is also the freedom for. Authentic freedom
involves freedom from everything that opposes our true self-becoming
(pagpapakatao).

3. Freedom does not refer so much to the rights of private, individual human beings, as it
does to the foundation of a living communion of love.

4. Freedom is not doing what we just want to do. It is doing only what is good.

II. Freedom is…

1. Freedom is an exceptional sign of the image of God in us, ng ating pagiging kamukha
ng Diyos (having a similar face with God).

2. Freedom is realized therefore in both our choices as well as in our self-disposition.

3. Freedom is from God and for God. On its deepest level, it is the capacity and
responsibility to be in loving relationship with God. It is the gift of love, the capacity
for love and it finds its only true fulfillment in love.

4. Freedom is the capacity to choose who we are going to become as persons. It is a

decision we take up based on a certain outlook on the meaning and value of life.

5. Freedom is the capacity to dispose finally of oneself, to make oneself once and for all.
This must be our aim in life.