Human Dignity, Freedom, And Love Flashcards
inherited worth or intrinsic value of the human person
Human Dignity
It defines our Moral Compassion
Human Dignity
foundation of human rights.
greatest type of beings– or what we call species.
never granted or endowed. It can never be lost.
Human Dignity
is grounded on being created in the image and likeness of God. (imago Dei)
human dignity
a german philosopher once said that, “every man is to be respected as an absolute end i himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.”
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
said that the very idea of human rights depends upon the vague but powerful idea of human dignity.
Ronald Dworkin (1977)
Human dignity is the moral heart of human rights.
(Gilabert, 2014)
The concept of humanness is integral in understanding human dignity.
(Hasalm, 2006)
the denial of the human essence and it threatens human dignity.
Dehumanization
Freedom (or liberty) is a fundamental component of our identity and one which separates us from other animals.
(Svendsen, 2014).
Free actions are those who are not forced, controlled, or necessitated in any way.
HUMAN FREEDOM
Freedom is the ability of humans to act on their own power without any form of compulsion.
(Davies, 2009)
contrasted two acts of the humans person into human acts and acts of a man
St. Thomas Aquinas
the freely and consciously chosen, intelligent, intentional, and voluntary acts.
Human Acts (actus humanus)
instinctive acts which are not dependent free will or intellect. These are actions of humans as animals. It is not subject to morality (amoral) and responsibility.
Acts of man (actus hominis)
is the ability to act or not act, in one way or another.
Free will
is the ability to act or not to act.
Freedom of exercise
is the ability to act one way or another.
Freedom of specification
is the freedom to do something. “What or who is the source of control or interference that can determine someone to do or be this rather than that.”
Positive Freedom
is freedom from something, or the absence of coercion. “What is the are within which subject– a person or group of persons– is or should be left to do or be what he is able to do or be, without interference by other persons?”
Negative Freedom
- The human person “cannot be sometimes salve and sometimes free; he is wholly and forever free or he is not free at all.
- “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown in the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
- Humans are condemned to be free, that is, freedom is not something which we possess, but something that we are as human person.
- Humans have free choice. We can direct our lives based on how we wish it to be. We are ultimately responsible for our own lives.
- Free choice involves consciousness. Bye being conscious, we are free to decide; and by being free to decide, we are responsible.
- Human have free will. We have free choice.
- The choices, decisions, and actions or inactions their results carry with the the consequences to other persons.
- The process of decision-making the potential or actual consequences of our decisions, choices, actions and inactions also carry with their angst
French existentialist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) proclaimed:
Three reasons of love according to formm:
- Being loved rather than on loving.
2.The object loved rather than on faculty of loving.
3.Confusion between initial state of falling in love and permanent standing in love
THE EXPERIENCE OF LOVE
Loneliness and Love
The Loving Encounter
Reciprocity of Love
Creativity of Love
Union of Love
The Gift of Self
Love is Historical
Equality in Love
This experience is the one of the most basic experiences of the human person because of self-awareness.
Loneliness and Love
an experience that is painful of shame, guilt, and anxiety. One needs to overcome loneliness and to find “at-onement”
The human person experience separation
First way (Loneliness and love)
this translates to the use of drugs, ritual, sex, and alcohol to find one’s self.
Second way: (Loneliness and love)
one would have tendency to join a group, organization, club or a fraternity which may be calm and routine-dedicated.
Holds the possibility for atonement with another while remaining to be oneself.
Involves an embodiment of intimacy of a deeper meaning.
The Loving Encounter
- As a response to other’s offering of subjectivity, I also give to the other my own subjectivity.
- I do not love because I expect love in return.
- The appeal must not be compelling, dominating, or processing the other.
Reciprocity of Love
- When love is reciprocated, love becomes fruitful; it becomes creative.
- Creates growth, self-realization, and fulfillment.
- When I am loved, I experience the feeling of joy and sense of security.
Creativity of Love
- Only when the beloved says, “yes” can the love become fruitful.
- They do not lose identities. The “I” more an “I” and the “you” more become the “you” as both created “we”
Union of Love
- A gift something I cause another possess which hitherto I possess myself, the giver.
- Giving is disinterested and unconditional
- I do not give in order to get something in return.
- A gift something I cause another possess which hitherto I possess myself, the giver.
- Giving is disinterested and unconditional
- I do not give in order to get something in return.
The Gift of Self
- The other who is the point at issue in love is a concrete particular person, not an abstract one.
- The concrete other is not an ideal person but a unique being.
- Love involves no abstraction. Love is concrete.
Love is Historical
- The equality in love is the equality of being not of having.
- In love, I do not surrender my liberty to the other, I do not become a slave of the other.
- Love involves freedom.
Equality in Love
- The persons in love is indivisible.
- We love them not for those qualities; we love them by being themselves.
Characteristics of Love
⁃ Love is not given only for a limited period of time.
Eternal
the persons involved in love are unique, irreplaceable, and as such are valuable in themselves. It is sealed with trust, intimacy, and even share secrets.
Sacred
