philo

• Freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.
• Mental suffering involves emotional and mental states such as depression, anxiety, fear, loneliness, and grief.
• Freedom involves the absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government.
• Freedom is the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
• Freedom is a human being's natural legacy and is used when we act, in saying yes or no.
• Freedom of choice is the freedom to choose between alternatives and is the capacity to accept or refuse any activity, the capacity to do this or that.
• Human freedom is situated or conditioned and does not start with a blank sheet.
• Freedom involves the immediate complete set of circumstances in which they exist before the use of freedom.
• Determinism is the doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will.
• Some philosophers have taken determinism to imply that individual human beings have no free will and cannot be held morally responsible for their actions.
• Determinism is the opposite of being free and is "que sera, sera", whatever will be, will be.
• Three sources of determinism according to Mondes are biological influences, social pressure, and the unconscious.
• Freedom is not the right to do what you want to do, nor is it the right to do what you must do, rather, it is the right to do what you ought to do.
• The will of humanity is an instrument of free choice and we all have the power to do good or evil because of our inner awareness of an aptitude to do right or wrong, the common testimony of human beings, the rewards and punishments of rulers, and the use of praise and blame.
• There is a higher form of happiness that is possible for humans beyond this life and love is freedom.
• As creatures of God, human beings have the unique power to change themselves and the things around them.
• The human being is a moral agent, since our spirituality makes us different from animals, it delineates our moral dimension to the fulfillment of an action.
• Through our spirituality, we have a conscience, choosing to do good or evil becomes our responsibility.
• An “ideal self” is a concept that creating an “idealized version” of ourselves in social media is conforming to a pattern, reducing us to mediocrity, and losing genuineness.
• The Modern Period (1500 - 1800) shifted its focus from God to man, ushering in experimentation in science, mathematics, philosophies, and growth of cities.
• Naturalism posits that nature is full of facts, which conform fatally to exact and irreversible law, and that human beings live best under a strong benevolent dictatorial civil government.
• The demand is made that constitutional limits should be set to the powers of government, in order that there may be no encroachment on the rightful freedom of the person and of associations.
• The Medieval Period (500 - 1500 CE) was characterized by German barbarians sacking Rome, the “Dark Ages”, and the start of the Reformation.
• Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ, it is a crime against humanity.
• If we are guided by faith, we recognize God creates men and women, not as objects, but as people loved and capable of loving, in His image and likeness.
• Empiricism, focused on Humanism, celebrates the inner world of humanity’s soul, and the focus is on the nature of man, rather than nature itself.
• The Industrial Revolution brought about significant changes such as the invention of machines, use of steam, and embracing the factory system.
• When others are seen as objects to be “used and discarded, this type of gaze blinds and fosters an individualistic and aggressive throw-away culture, which transforms the human being into a consumer good.
• Transformation is the act or process of transforming or the state of being transformed.
• Critical Idealism, proponent Immanuel Kant, posits that humanity’s nature is the real creator of humanity’s world, and it is not the external world but the inner structure of man’s spirit that expresses itself in the visible nature about us.
• Formation is an act of giving form or shape to something or of taking form.
• Love can bring out transformation in humanity and love is in consonance with humanity’s free nature, law commands and completes; love calls and invites.
• There is indeed freedom of humanity, but love governs human life.
• Refugees are people who have fled war, violence, conflict or persecution and have crossed an international border to find safety in another country.
• Poverty is an individual concern as well as a broader social problem.
• Single parent families are comprised of a parent/caregiver and one or more dependent children without the presence and support of a spouse or adult partner who is sharing the responsibility of parenting.
• Women’s full and equal participation in all facets of society is a fundamental human right.
• Yet, around the world, from politics to entertainment to the workplace, women and girls are largely underrepresented.
• Republic Act No 7277 (Magna Carta for Disabled Persons)
• All children have all these rights, no matter who they are, where they live, what language they speak, what their religion is, what they think, what they look like, if they are a boy or girl, if they have a disability, if they are rich or poor, and no matter who their parents or families are or what their parents or families believe or do.