Module 5: Freedom of the

Human Person
1. This refers to the ability to make choices and
perform actions. It is an intrinsic and
essential property of the human person.
a. Freedom
b. Free Will
c. Psychological freedom
d. Voluntariness
2. A type of freedom from physical restraint.
a. Moral freedom
b. Physical freedom
c. Psychological freedom
d. Voluntariness
3. This is the kind of freedom which allows a
person to perform actions which he or she
considers right and wise.
a. Freedom of choosing
b. Voluntarism
c. Psychological freedom
d. Moral Freedom
4. It is the ability to act out one’s free will and
self-determination.
a. Volunteerism
b. Responsibility
c. Psychological freedom
d. Voluntariness
5. This means that a person is being accountable
for his or her actions and their consequences.
a. Responsibly
b. Responsibility
c. Irresponsibleness
d. Voluntariness
B. Put a check beside each number of the statement which shows
responsible use of freedom.
___1. Instead of buying new dress for a party she is going to
attend, Sheena decides to borrow a dress from her sister.

___2. Knowing that her classmate will be humiliated by the photo

she took, Mika still posted the photo in their class group chat.
____3. Despite his classmate’s friends threatening him, Mark
decided to tell his teacher that his classmates stole a test paper for
their final examination.
____4. Instead of going out with his friends on a Saturday night,
Miguel spends his time with his family.
____5. Although the beauty product Kim is selling is very in
demand, Kim stopped selling it knowing that it can cause harm to
the skin if used for a long time.
C. Analyzing situations.
Read the following situations below. How are you going to apply prudence in
making a choice to exercise your freedom more responsibly? Encircle the letter that
corresponds your answer.
1. Your family is experiencing financial difficulty. You are being enrolled in a private
school with a high tuition fee but your parents do not want you to transfer to a
public school despite your situation. As their daughter/son what are you going to
do?
a. You are going to stay in your school because that is what your parents want
you to do.
b. You won’t mind because that is your parent’s problem.
c. You will explain to your parents that transferring school is the best way to resolve
the family’s financial problem.
d. You will stop going to school.
2. A teacher informed you that your brother has to repeat some subjects
due to his failing grades. She asked you to tell your parents about it and
that she wanted to meet them. But your brother asked you not to tell
your parents and that he will find another person to stand as your
parents. What are you going to do?

a. You will not tell your parents because your brother asked you not to
do it.
b. You will not tell your parents in exchange of your brother’s allowance.
c. You won’t mind because you do not care about your brother’s
problem.
d. You will tell your parents because you know that granting your
brothers
request will not do any good but instead will just lead him to do to things
that could again affect his studies.
• 3. Your best friend humiliated you, making you a
laughing stock in your school. As her best friend
you also knew a lot about her that would humiliate
her as well when exposed. What then are you
going to do?
• a. You will not do what she did to you because you
know that it will not do any good.
• b. You will expose her secrets so that she will have
the same fate as you.
c. You will confront and start a fight with her.
d. You will not do the same, instead you’ll do actions
that will gain back your friendship.
• a. You will not do what she did to you because
you know that it will not do anygood.
• b. You will expose her secrets so that she will
have the same fate as you.
• c. You will confront and start a fight with her.
• d. You will not do the same, instead you’ll do
actions that will gain back your
• friendship.
• 4. You are invited to a de
• 4. You are invited to a debut party of your best friend.
She expected you to be there. Her birthday falls on a
Wednesday but you’re having a final exam the next day.
How are you going to deal with the situation?
a. You will go to the party and will not study for your exam.
b. You will not go to the party and you will study for your
exam.
c. You will go to the party but you will go home early to
study.
d. You will not go to the party and will not study.
• 5. You saw a classmate bullied by your schoolmates outside
your school. You just turned a blind eye and walked the
other way because you do not want to get involved. The
next day, you heard the news that your bullied classmate
was admitted to the hospital due to injuries. The school and
the family of the bullied child is asking if someone saw the
incident to have someone to testify. The bullies already
warned you not say a single word otherwise they will do
the same to you. What are you going to do then?
a. You will not report because your safety is at stake.
b. You will report to prevent the bullies from doing it again.
c. You will not report because you do not care about your
classmate.
d. You will report the incident in exchange for money.
 Activity 1: Draw Me A Picture.
Draw the picture asked and answer the guide questions.
Place your answer in your activity notebook.
• 1. In relation to freedom what do you think
does your drawing means?
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2. What do you think is the difference if the bird
is inside the cage and if it is outside?
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 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.
 Meaning of Freedom
• Two concepts that will help us fully understand
freedom:
1. 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 of Freedom
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.
 Meaning of 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.
 Example Free will
You followed your teacher’s advice to study the
lessons for your quiz the next morning
 Is it Freedom or Freewill
1. ML till midnight
2. Awareness of sleeping time
3. Dancing in front of many people without
occasions
4. Singing loudly
5. Asking permission to talk
 KINDS OF FREEDOM

1. 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
 KINDS OF FREEDOM

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.
 KINDS OF FREEDOM

3. Moral Freedom-
refers to using freedom in a manner that
upholds human dignity and goodness.
 KINDS OF FREEDOM

• 3. Moral Freedom- 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 orher freedom to do acts
that violates human dignity and goodness, he or she
dehumanizes himself or herself and effectively negates
human freedom.
Lesson 2: Elements of Freedom
 Activity 1: It’s Me!

• Read the situation below and answer the

questions after it.
• Write your answer in your activity notebook.
1. One of the barangays in your Municipality was
struck by an earthquake. Your school will be
conducting an outreach activity to help the
affected families and they need a lot of manpower.
With this, they are asking for student volunteers
who would want to join the said outreach activity.
 Activity 1: It’s Me!

a. Would you volunteer to the said activity? Why or why not?

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b. What do you think drives you to join or not join the activity?
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c. If you choose to volunteer to the activity, what are the
responsibilities that you can associate to your act of voluntarism?
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 TWO ELEMENTS THAT DEFINE FREEDOM

1. Voluntariness
It is the ability of a person to act of his or her own free will and
selfdetermination. A person may decide to do things or not to do it
according to his own free will. It also means that even though she/he
is not required to do such things he/she could still do it or take action
on it.
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.
Factors to Consider in Exercising Freedom

1. 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.
Factors to Consider in Exercising Freedom

2. 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.
Activity 2: My Personal Timeline
 Activity 3 Write your reflection in your
notebook
Write your reflection in your activity notebook.
1. Recall a situation in your life that in where you apply prudence in making a
choice. How does this decision create an impact your life?
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LESSON 3:Exercising Freedom in a Responsible
and Beneficial Manner
Activity 1: Picture Analysis
1. What do you think is the message the picture below is trying to convey?
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2. How do you think does the picture relates to the previous lesson?
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Freedom should be exercised with control
and reasonable limits.
1. A student may be first in line in a grocery
store but chooses to give way to an elderly
woman next to her.
2. You may be very upset to a friend for losing a
thing she borrowed but refuses to confront her
because you already know that she already feels
bad of herself for the thing she had done.
Freedom should be exercised with control
and reasonable limits.
3. You may be very angry with your teacher for
scolding you in front of the entire class, but you
refrained from answering back at him/her since
it will be considered as disrespectful act.
Freedom should be exercised with control
and reasonable limits.
• Giving limits to our personal freedom simply
means sacrificing certain selfinterest and
accept that there are things beyond our
control. Our ability to think and know what is
right and what is wrong serves as guide in
recognizing and deciding the limitations of our
freedom.
 Freedom should be exercised with regard
for knowledge and truth

• As a rational beings, it is natural for us to think before we act. We use

our freedom to acquire knowledge, which in turn are useful in
making right and sound decisions essential in dealing with our life
situations.

- Example:
To correctly answer a multiple-choice item in an examination, a student
has to study his/her lessons. Otherwise, he/she cannot answer the test.
• We should also be equipped with the ability to acquire information
and truthful knowledge because it will aid us in making wise and
informed choices.
 Freedom should be exercised with regard
for knowledge and truth

Example:
In casting our votes during SSG election, we will
not vote to a candidate because of she/he is
attractive or appealing but because she/he is
knowledgeable on the important school issues.
Freedom should be exercised to uphold the freedom of others.

• Freedom is recognized and guaranteed right for all persons.

Meaning, freedom should be enjoyed by all. But it is
important to remember that freedom should be exercised
not as a tool to restrict the freedom of others, but as a
means to enable others to fully enjoy their own freedom.
Example:
• A teacher doing his/her class discussion under the Narra
tree instead of having it inside the classroom.
• You shared your hard-earned money to cater the needs of
your friend who is in dire needs of it for the realization of
his/her school project.
Freedom should be exercised to uphold the freedom of others.

Example:
• A teacher doing his/her class discussion under
the Narra tree instead of having it inside the
classroom.
• You shared your hard-earned money to cater
the needs of your friend who is in dire needs of
it for the realization of his/her school project.
 Activity 2: Next to?
Write your answer in your activity notebook
 What have I learned
• Freedom is an intrinsic and essential property
of a human person.
• Human person by nature seeks freedom and
our freedom makes us distinct from other
beings.
• Freedom gives us the power/ability to be what
we want and to decide and create ourselves.
 What have I learned
• There are three kinds of freedom. Physical
freedom refers to the absence of physical
restraint.
• Psychological freedom is the freedom of choice.
• Moral freedom refers to the responsible use of
freedom which upholds human dignity and
goodness.
 What have I learned
• The two important elements of human freedom
are voluntariness and responsibility. Voluntariness
refers to the ability of the person to act out of his
or her own free will.
• Responsibility refers to the person being
accountable for his or her action and their
consequences.
 What have I learned
• As a person possessing self-determination,
individual actions as it is freely chosen by an
individual then defines who and what kind of
individual we are.
• 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.
 What have I learned
• 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.
 What can I do
• Reflection: Write your answers in your
activity notebook.
• 1. Reflect on your past experiences and
identify a moment when you believed you had
“no choice” regarding your action or
decisions, or you made a choice that you
eventually regretted. Reevaluate the situation
and how important is it to apply prudence in
making a choice.
 What can I do
• Reflection: Write your answers in your
activity notebook.
• 2. Reflect on a problem you are currently
facing. Create a graphic organizer outlining the
possible choices you can make and their
corresponding consequences.
 Assessment
1. This refers to the ability to make choices and
perform actions. It is an intrinsic and essential
property of the human person.
a. Freedom
b. Free Will
c. Psychological freedom
d. Voluntariness
2. A type of freedom from physical restraint.
a. Moral freedom
b. Physical freedom
c. Psychological freedom
d. Voluntariness
3. This is the kind of freedom which allows a
person to perform actions which he or she
considers right and wise.
a. Freedom of choosing
b. Voluntarism
• c. Psychological freedom
• d. Moral Freedom
4. It is the ability to act out one’s
free will and self-determination.
a. Volunteerism
b. Responsibility
c. Psychological freedom
d. Voluntariness
5. This means that a person is being accountable
for his or her actions and their consequences.
a. Responsibly
b. Responsibility
c. Irresponsibleness
d. Voluntariness