Philosophy of Man

1. Good Afternoon!
Welcome!

2. Objective
• define human freedom and its
elements

3. Start-up…
• Arrange the scrambled letters to form the
correct terms related to the lesson.
• anmuh erosnp
Human person
• lilw efre
Free will
• Moederf
Freedom

4. Let’s do it…
• Picture analysis.
• The students will be grouped into five
groups.
• Each group will have to analyse the
photos and fill in the letters to complete
the word depicting the photo.

5. F ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
(L O D R P F E R E M X S H O)
FREEDOM

6. ___ ___ ___S___ ___
(E K V A C O P W S R E I N)
PERSON

7. ____ ____ O____ ____ ____ S
(P C N I E S A B C O H V U E)
CHOICES

8. Let’s analyse…
• How did you feel about the activity?
• What are your thoughts on the activity?
• What is the relationship between pictures
in Set A to Set B?
• What are the things that you might
associate with human freedom?
• How does a human person exercise
freedom?

9. Discussion…
• Freedom – an intrinsic and essential
property of the human person
• Free will – the ability to choose from
various alternatives
• Self-determination – the human capacity
to regulate his/her course of action

10. Aspects of Freedom
• Freedom as the human ability to self-create – as
rational beings, humans have the capacity to
identify the things that will enable him/her to live
life to the fullest (ex. talents, skills, ideals, views,
etc.) are products of human freedom of choice
• Freedom as product of self-determination – a
human person can choose to act in a positive
manner and become a good person or can
choose to go the other way around and have
negative impact on him/her as a person

11. • Freedom as self-control – “do what you
ought to do,”; a human person is freer
when s/he exercise control over his/her
choices (ex. drug/alcohol dependents are
less free because they are controlled by
their cravings)
• Freedom as humanizer – by nature, human
should be free; however there are
instances that this freedom is lessen or
totally lost because of some reasons like
slavery, imprisonment, poverty, etc.

12. Kinds of Freedom
• Physical freedom – refers to absence of any
physical restraints; even persons with
physical disability can have this freedom
when s/he determines his/her actions
according to his/her abilities
• Psychological freedom – this is the freedom
of choice utilizing one’s intellect which is
innate in every person; no external
influence can force a person to do
something against her will

13. • Moral freedom – the use of freedom in
upholding human dignity and growth;
humans have natural goodness and going
against that character is negating freedom

14. Let’s apply…
• How does your freedom help in making
right/sound choices?

15. Let's evaluate...
• What is freedom?
• What is free will?
• What is self-determination?
• Name at least one aspect of freedom.
• Name at least one type of freedom.