What do these pictures depict?

Who are entitled to the

enjoyment of freedom?
Ethics • Unlike the lower forms of animals,
human persons have a choice or
applies only freedom, hence morality applies only
to human to human persons.
person • Dilemmas presuppose freedom.
 • Human being’s capacity to
select from choices, and to
What is perform that choice.
• Together with this right to
freedom? choose is the accountability
for the choices made.
Freedom
It is the power rooted in reason (intellect) and will (moral act), to act or not to act,
to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one’s own
responsibility.

Kant: we must have free will if we are to be held morally responsible for our
actions.

Making moral choice is a necessary consequence of being free, a consequence of

being a human person.
 Human persons are expected to be
ethical or moral.

Being ethical means owning the

Freedom moral standard.

Owning the moral standard means

integrating and internalizing them
Taoist concept of harmony
The thought, the word, and the action become one.