The capability of the person to makechoices and decisions based on their own preferences, monitor, and regulate their own actions and be goal-oriented and self-directed
Whenever we decide to act, this results in a certain consequence. All human actions have consequences, and this affect not only the person who commits the action, but also other people in our surroundings
Having the ability to choose and to enact a course of action does not automatically mean that we should act every time. It is also possible that the choice not to take action may be an acceptable and moral choice in a given situation
Freedom is also understood to be the power to create and define oneself. It is also rooted in the person's rationality and the exercise of intellect and free will
The shared awareness and mutual understanding among persons. It's about the experience and meaning of interhuman encounter. It opens us up to the nature of commitment, the value of others, and the reality of love as the highest form of recognition. It pertains to human relationships characterized by a shared sense of responsibility toward each other, respect for differences, and empathy.
Mutual understanding is an important objective of any conversation. It is achieved through speech acts that meet four validity claims: comprehensibility, truth, truthfulness, and rightness.
Habermas believes that when actors do not violate any of the validity claims in their speech acts, it would result in intersubjective "reciprocal understanding, shared knowledge, mutual trust, and accord with one another".
The mode that modern man almost exclusively uses, where the "I" acts more as an observer while the "it" is viewed as a thing to be utilized, known, or put for some purpose.
Both the "I" and the "other" enter into a genuine relationship as active participants, where the "other" is transformed into a "Thou" or "You" and is valued as a subject, not an object.
A genuine relation between loving beings, where subjects do not perceive each other as objects but as subjects, sharing a sense of caring, respect, commitment, and responsibility.
Whenever we deal with someone, we use the values and beliefs that we inherited from our society and used them to interpret the other person's actions and intentions.
Personal ("mine alone"), we should not wait for others to organize activities but do it by our own and try to be sincere and consistent in dealing with them
Our society's standards of moral, good, and right could be instruments for "uniform" behavior, thinking, and living, but people are not the same and each individual is unique