philo Flashcards
freedom (24 cards)
The ability to make choices and perform choices.
freedom
-It is the quality or state of being free.
-It is our capacity to choose what we wanted and an inner awareness of what is right and wrong that is traced to our free will according to Aristotle.
free-itself
It is our ability to choose between two different possible courses of action, independently. Simply put it, our ability to choose things according to our moral reasoning.
freewill
- Also called freedom of choice. The person is free to perform actions that he or she considers right and wise. A person is also free to act or not act. It is innate and cannot be denied to a person.
psychological freedom
- Refers to using freedom in a manner that upholds human dignity and goodness.
moral freedom
- Refers to the absence of any physical restraint.
physical freedom
prison
physical freedom
marriage
psychological freedom
sharing a post
moral freedom
hospital
physical freedom
a committee in a program
moral freedom
A human being is rational. Reason is a divine characteristic.
aristotle
love is freedom/ we are moral agents.
st. thomas aquinas
FOURFOLD CLASSIFICATIONS OF LAW ACCORDING TO AQUINAS
natural law
eternal law
human law
divine law
In its ethical sense, applies only to human beings.
Good is to be sought after and evil avoided. There is inherent in every human being, an inclination that he or she shares will all other beings, namely, the desire to conserve human life and forbid the contrary.
natural law
God’s rational purpose and plan for all things. And is part of** God’s mind then it has always, and will always, exist.**
eternal
are the historical laws of Scripture given to us through God’s self-revelation. divided into the Old Law and the New Law, which correspond to the Old and New Testaments of the Bible.
It expresses immediate conclusions of the natural moral law
divine
considered conclusions from the natural law when they pertain to those matters about which the natural law offers a clear precept
human
the human person is the desire to be God: the desire to exist as a being which has its sufficient ground in itself.
jean paul sartre
A law of nature is a precept or general rule establish by reason./ theory of social contract
thomas hobbes
“To be human, to be conscious, is to be free to imagine, free to choose,
and be responsible for one’s life.”
jean paul sartre
believes that a human being is born free and good. Now, he or she is in chains and has become bad due to the evil influence of society, civilization, learning and progress
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
The term “Social Contract” is a certain way of looking at a society of voluntary collection of agreeable individuals.
thomas hobbes theory of social contract jean jacques rousseau
