Religion Education - Human Dignity

1. HUMAN DIGNITY
FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY
By: John Paul Espino
De La Salle University – Dasmarinas
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3. HUMAN DIGNITY IS DIVIDED INTO TWO ACTIONS:
FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY.
• Freedom and Responsibility go hand-in-hand. When there is no freedom in
the performance of the act, responsibility is also wanting. If we are free, we
are also responsible.

4. THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF FREEDOM:
INNER AND EXTERNAL FREEDOM.

5. INTERNAL FREEDOM:
• Internal freedom is freedom as a power which belongs to you and which
you exercise even when compelled. You may hand over your money
unwillingly in the sense that you don't want to, but you have to do it from
choice or free will in another sense because the action is performed by you.

6. EXTERNAL FREEDOM:
• The freedom that of action to do whatever you want to do.

7. THREATS TO INNER FREEDOM
• There is another kind of threat to a person’s freedom, and this comes from
within the person himself/herself. Two of these threats are ignorance and
passion. Ignorance blurs an individual’s vision and makes her/him react in
an impulsive way.

8. RESPONSIBILITY HAS DIFFERENT AREAS:
• Responsible for the material world; responsible for the community and
responsible for himself/herself.