Q2: Freedom of the Human Person Flashcards
a situation of behaving of people as a moral agent according to their own preferences and rational decisions.
Freedom
Freedom from the ________________, _________, _____________, and __________ aspect
intellectual, political, spiritual, and economic
Who studied the power of volition?
Aristotle
Who studied the “Love is freedom/Spiritual Freedom
St. Thomas Aquinas
Who studied the Individual Freedom
Jean Paul Sartre
Who studied the Theory of Social Contract
Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The task of practical intellect is to guide will by enlightening it. If there were no intellect, there would be no will.
The power of volition
Human being is rational. Reason can legislate, but only through will can its legislation be turned into action.
The power of volition
Of all creatures of God, human beings have the unique power to change themselves and the things around them for the better.
Love is freedom/Spiritual Freedom
The power of change cannot be done by human beings alone but is achieved through cooperation with God.
Love is freedom/Spiritual Freedom
Fourfold classification of law:
the eternal law, natural law, human law and the divine law.
Established the existence of God as a first cause of all God’s Creation.
As humans, we are both material and spiritual. We have conscience because of our spirituality. God is love and love is our destiny.
Love is freedom/Spiritual Freedom
His philosophy is a representative of existentialism.
Jean Paul Sartre-
The human is a desire to be God. The desire to exist as being which has its sufficient ground.
Jean Paul Sartre-
The human person builds the road to the destiny of his/her choosing; he/she is the creator.
Jean Paul Sartre-
A law of nature is general rule established by reason, by which a person is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life or takes away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that by which he thinks it may be preserved.
Thomas Hobbes
Concludes that we should seek peace.
Thomas Hobbes
The mutual transferring of these rights is called a contract is the basis of the notion of moral obligation and duty. The laws of nature give the conditions for the establishment of society and government.
Thomas Hobbes
The fundamental law of nature seeks peace and follows it, while at the same time, by the sum of natural right, we should defend ourselves that we can.
Thomas Hobbes
Human beings perform their covenant made.
One man or woman or assembly of human beings, to bear their person.
Thomas Hobbes
One of the most influential philosophers of the French Enlightenment in the 18th Century.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
His book The Social Contract, he elaborated his theory of human nature.
The state owes its origin to social contract freely entered by its members. Human beings must form a community or civil community to protect themselves from one another.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Human beings have nature is to wage a war against one another.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Believes that human being is born free and good.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He saw the necessity and came to form a state through the social contract whereby everyone grants his individual rights to the general will.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There must be a common power or government which the plurality of individuals (citizen) should confer all their powers and strength into (freedom) one will (ruler).
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
