Philosophy

• Freedom


  Part of our nature; it is innate
• Understanding freedom


  Part of our transcendence
• En sui causa


  I act on my behalf
• Freedom


  Uses critical thinking
• Individual freedom


  By Jean Paul Sarte
• The human person


  The desire to be God
• Desire


  To be a creator
• A person

  Builds his/her own destiny; the creator of their own paths
• Existence precedes essence
• A person


  Surges up; encounters himself to see their purpose
• Dasein


  Throwness of being
• Freedom


  Comes with responsibility
• Freedom


  The door to authentic experience
• En soi


  Being in itself
• Por soi


  Being for itself (going beyond its essence)
• Spiritual freedom


  Revolves around all freedom
• St. Thomas Aquinas


  Established the existence of God as the first cause
• Conscience


  Inner voice that teaches us if our actions are good
• Humans are both material and spiritual
• Love


  The ultimate end of human existence
• God


  Is love and God is our destiny; imitate the same love God gave
• Situated freedom


  By Maurice Ponty
• "What happens is happening and will happen"
• Our freedom to act


  Always embedded within a specific context or situation
• Everything happens because of a situation
• Consider


  The context in which individuals make choices and exercise their agency
• Our choices


  Based on our environment
• Freedom


  A dynamic process that involves negotiation between our desires and the demands of the world