What can you say about the pictures below? Have you been in this kind of situation wherein you need to make choice. What are the things that you considered in making choices?
Activity : What are the things that you would like to do if you were granted absolute freedom for a day (Absolute freedom literally means no form of hindrance or impediment would prevent you from doing what you want).
FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY
Learning Task 1. COMPLETE THE TABLE. Determine the possible consequences and obligations of the actions listed below. You assume that intention and voluntariness existed in every happening.
Learning Task No 2. EVALUATING SCENARIOS . In your way of understanding, evaluate the following circumstances whether they are right or wrong. Write the word “ Tama ” if you think the action is right and write “ may kakaiba ” if the situation is wrong for you. Provide your reasoning for your classification. _____________ 1. Selma continuously supports her friend Georgia in flirting someone else’s husband. Reason :__________________________________ _____________ 2. President Duterte orders several government agencies to continue placing dolomite sands in a small portion of Manila Bay during pandemic. Reason:__________________________________
_____________ 3 . Mae Mae is in the verge of failing her exam in General Mathematics. While she is taking the exams, she received a small piece of paper from his classmate Ben. The piece of paper contains all the answers for the last portion of the exam. Reason:__________________________________ _____________ 4. Molina is in-charge of the distribution of medicines in her barangay. The local government of Imus usually provides for extra packages of medicines as a buffer stock or reserve in case of uncounted members of barangay. One day, Josielyn , a citizen from Calamba City, offers to buy the extra packages of medicine from Molina, because there is a shortage of medicines in Calamba. Molina, in turn, sold the extra medicines to Josielyn . Reason:__________________________________
_____________ 5. Gladys is the gate custodian of Bilibid prison. One day, the former Mayor of Calauan Laguna and convicted of complex crime of Rape with homicide Antonio Sanchez who has kidney illness asks Gladys to allow him to buy some medicine to alleviate the pain caused by his kidney disease. However, Gladys did not allow the request and instead reported the former Mayor’s attempt to go outside the penal colony. Reason:_________________________________ _____________ 6. Samson oversees the installation of an internet satellite in Camp Caringal . While the construction is ongoing, his wife Lizjoy called him because their son Erwin is sick. Lizjoy asked Samson to return to their house because Erwin misses him so much. Samson said he cannot return immediately because the Chinese contractors are spoof. Reason:__________________________________
_____________ 7. Ruby is the best online seller in her town. She can earn as much as 10,000 php per day. On the other hand, Celeste is a newbie in online selling. She barely earned a thousand peso for a day. Knowing Ruby’s ability to sell online, Celeste approached Ruby and asked the latter to teach her how to be a successful online entrepreneur. Ruby asked for a tutorial fee, because she said that it entails a lot of work just to make a online strategy work. Reason:__________________________________ _____________ 8 . Ylah is a dean’s lister in her department – School of Business Management and Accountancy of De La Salle University. At the same time, she is the captain of the table tennis team in the said school. Her boyfriend, Armando usually complains because Ylah has minimal time for him. Because Armando thinks Ylah is too busy with her own life, he broke his 6 years relationship with the young lady. Reason:__________________________________
_____________ 9. Jovi and Rency are good friends. They are schoolmates since their. However, there is no venue to hold the meeting. Jovi requested Rency to allow them first year in college. Because of great academic performance, Jovi has been elected as the vice-president of the college department. On the other hand, Rency has been chosen as the in-charge of the college’s laboratories since she is trustworthy and keen in details. One day, the college’s student council needs to meet for a quarterly review of thseir activities to use the department’s physics laboratory, but Rency denied such a request. Reason:__________________________________ _____________ 10. Ariel is an LTO officer who has a lot of connections is the said office. He usually accepts under the table transactions from people who want to expedite their application for a driver’s license. His sister Amor once asked him why he’s doing those kinds of transactions. Ariel answered that he simply wants to help people by avoiding the grueling application process in the LTO. Reason:__________________________________
Learning Task 3: WRITTEN ACTIVITY COMPLETE THE CHART BELOW . Recall three decisions you have made recently. Then, analyze them. What are the good things they produced for you and your community and what are the negative effects do they caused to yourself and others?
Learning Task No. 4: PROCESSING . Answer the following questions based on how you answered the activity above. What are your prior considerations for making those decisions? What are your considerations for classifying the effect of your action as a positive one? What are your considerations for classifying the effect of your action as a negative one? What are your considerations in saying that you made a “best decision?”
HUMAN FREEDOM AND OBLIGATION What is Freedom? The ability to make choices and perform those choices. The ability to be what we want and to decide and create oneself. Obligation usually follows or arrives from freedom. Freedom can be said to be present if the human person is free in making choices in the realm of morality – that is, in making choices with regards to determining what is the right thing to do in situations and circumstances in his own life. This can be summarized in our Filipino saying, “ Buntot mo , hila mo !”
Two concepts that will help us fully understand freedom: Freedom itself According to Merriam Dictionary, it is the quality or state of being free. It is our capacity to choose of what we wanted and an inner awareness of what is right and wrong that is traced to our free will according to Aristotle. It is also an intrinsic and an essential property of a human person which basically means, it is a part of our human nature. Example : Think of yourself as a student, your teacher told you to study your lessons for the day for you will have a long quiz the next meeting. However, as you reached home you find yourself having a good time doing Facebook and online chatting with your friends. Using your freedom, you can either choose to follow your teacher’s advice to study your lessons for your quiz the next morning or continue doing the thing which you find enjoyable.
2. Free will Our free will allows us to decide on things we do depending on the situation. It is our ability to choose between two different possible courses of action, independently. Simply put it, free will is our ability to choose things according to our moral reasoning. To sum it all, our freedom then could trace down in a person’s exercise of his rationality/intellect and free will. Simply that individual actions as it is freely chosen by an individual it then defines who and what kind of person one is. We all are free to choose, to be good person and act on it accordingly or be a bad person and act in a bad way. As our actions and choices reflects us doing what is good and acting on it is what makes you a good person while on the other hand doing the negative will also give a negative impression to an individual.
KINDS OF FREEDOM Physical Freedom Physical freedom refers to the absence of any physical restraint. The person has the freedom of mobility to go where he or she wants to go. He or she is not impeded in his or her actions by any physical force. Granted that the person has natural limitations, physical freedom allows him or her to act and move in determined manner. You cannot be everywhere at once, but your freedom allows you to move one place to another and to go whenever you want to go.
2. Psychological Freedom Psychological freedom is 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 to act. Psychological freedom is innate and cannot be denied to a person. No outside force or influence can compel a person to take action against his or her will. 3. Moral Freedom Moral freedom refers to using freedom in a manner that upholds human dignity and goodness. Freedom is not an object that a person may use in whatever way he or she pleases. A person must use his or her freedom to grow as a person. A person becomes freer when he or she uses freedom well, but becomes less free when he or she uses it in a bad way. Humans have a natural inclination for what is true and good, and when a person uses his or her freedom to do acts that violates human dignity and goodness, he or she dehumanizes himself or herself and effectively negates human freedom. KINDS OF FREEDOM
There are two elements that define freedom: Voluntariness ✓ The ability of a person to act out of his or her own free will and self-determination ✓ Meaning, a person may decide to act or not to act out of his/her own free will ✓ A person may act even if he or she is not required or called to take action. Voluntary acts are free acts which can be assigned a corresponding moral value. One must always remember that in every action we make, in every choice we make there is an equivalent consequence. These consequences affect not just the individual who does the decision but also other people in their surroundings. With that, one must always accept the consequences that results from his or her decisions or actions and take responsibility for them. 2. Responsibility ✓ As a free being, the person must accept the consequences of his or her action and take responsibility for them ✓ Refers to the person being accountable for his or her actions and their consequences; it could have a positive or negative meaning.
There are important factors to consider in the exercise of freedom. These are Prudence and Self-reflection. Prudence is the ability to govern and discipline oneself with the use of reason; it is having caution and giving good judgments in making decisions. Because once we made a decision there is no turning back, there is no rewind, so we should always reflect first on the possible outcomes of the choices that we are going to make. Self-reflection is very important in exercising freedom. Self-reflection allows us to be more rational in making choices, because sometimes human beings tend to be slaves by their emotions and moods whenever they act certain things. As free beings, exercising our freedom responsibly is very important. Thus, it requires us to reflect on the actions that we are going to make by considering its possible effects and the benefits it has to the people affected by it.
Having freedom and exercising it bears responsibilities. All our actions have consequences that come with it. Therefore, it is important to act with prudence and reflect on possible courses of actions in making decision. Freedom should be exercised in a responsible and beneficial manner. One must control and recognize limits of his or her freedom for it is our responsibility as persons to uphold not only our individual freedoms, but also the freedom of others.
Learning Task No. 5: SOLVE THE TROLLEY PROBLEM. There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one person on the sidetrack. You have two options: 1. Do nothing and allow the trolley to kill the five people on the main track. 2. Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the sidetrack where it will kill one person.
Which is the more ethical option? Or, more simply: What is the right thing to do? Justify your answer using the lesson above.
Process Questions: 1. Was there freedom on your part in facing the situation? 2. What are your considerations for saying that your choice is the right thing?
LEARNING TASK NO. 6 & CASE ANALYSIS Individual activity for print..
As a student, you have made some important life decisions in the past. Make a time-line of major decisions in your life and below the line then write down the consequence of those particular decisions. My Personal Timeline