Freedom INTRODUCTION

OF THE TO THE
PHILOSOPHY

HUMAN OF A HUMAN
PERSON

PERSON
Prepared by:

Kollene Albert D. Doncillo, LPT

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY

 What is Freedom?
The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or
restraint. (en.oxforddictionaries.com)
Strands for something greater than just the right to act. Also, stands for
securing to everyone an equal opportunity for life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness. (ieet.org)
Understood as independence of the arbitrary will of another. A free person
can do whatever he chooses as long as he does not break the law and infringe
of the freedom of others. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
“All Actions Have Consequences”
 St. Thomas Aquinas
Philosopher and theologian St. Thomas
Aquinas was born circa 1225 in Roccasecca,
Italy. Combining the theological principles of
faith with the philosophical principles of
reason, he ranked among the most
influential thinkers of medieval
Scholasticism.
(From: https://www.biography.com/people/st-thomas-aquinas-
9187231)
St. Thomas: Spiritual Freedom
Thomas Hobbes: Social Contract
To be continued…..
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
Social Contract
Rousseau begins The Social Contract with the
most famous words he ever wrote: “Men are
born free, yet everywhere are in chains.”
From this provocative opening, Rousseau
goes on to describe the myriad ways in which
the “chains” of civil society suppress the
natural birthright of man to physical freedom.
 Jean-Jacques The Social Contract is to determine
Rousseau: whether there can be a legitimate political
authority, since people's interactions he
Social Contract saw at his time seemed to put them in a
state far worse than the good one they
were at in the state of nature, even
though living in isolation.
Rousseau argues that it is absurd for a
man to surrender his freedom for slavery;
thus, the participants must have a right to
choose the laws under which they live.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau posits that the political aspects of
Rousseau: a society should be divided into two parts:
Social Contract First, there must be a sovereign consisting of
the whole population, women included, that
represents the general will and is the
legislative power within the state.
The second division is that of the
government, being distinct from the
sovereign.
 Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre, (born June 21, 1905,
Paris, France — died April 15, 1980,
Paris), French novelist, playwright, and
exponent of Existentialism — a
philosophy acclaiming the freedom of
the individual human being. He was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1964, but he declined it.
Jean Paul Sartre:
Individual Freedom
 Sartre’s Principle
of Existentialism
 The person is nothing else but that what he makes of himself.
 The person is provided with a supreme opportunity to give meaning to
one’s life.
 Freedom is therefore the very core and the door to authentic existence.
 The person is what one has done and is doing.
 The person who tries to escape obligations is acting on bad faith.
 Sartre’s Principle
of Existentialism
 Sartre emphasizes the importance of free individual choice
regardless of the power of the other people to influence and
coerce our desires, beliefs and decisions
 “to be human, to be conscious, is to be free to imagine, free to
choose and responsible for one’s life.
 B. F. Skinner:
Punishment and Reward
Simply as: you do
good you will be
rewarded you do bad
you will be punished.
DO YOU THINK THAT
REWARD AND
PUNISHMENT IS
EFFECTIVE? WHY?
AS A TEENAGER, DO
YOU REALLY ENJOY
YOUR FREEDOM?