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the Human Person

Student Activity Sheet Grade Level 12

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Lesson Title:
Materials:
Perspective of Freedom Marker, White Board, TV Set, DVD player
Learning Objectives:
References:
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to: Sioco &Vinzsons: Introduction to the Philosophy of
Human Person, Vibal Group Inc. Quezon City, 2016
1. Demonstrate how freedom affects our life; -http://www.e-ir.info/2013/01/23/jean-paul-sartre-
2. Explain the nature of freedom in the context of existential-freedom-and-the-political/
choice; and -Babor, EddieThe Human Person, Not real but
3. Critically apply freedom with morality and existing.2001(p.332)
responsibility. https://www.google.com.ph/search?q=sartre+on+freedom

Lesson Preview
1. Climate change: Refers to any significant change in the measures of climate lasting for an extended period of
time.
2. Water scarcity:
- Lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the demands of water usage
- Water shortages may be caused by climate change, such as altered weather patterns
including droughts or floods, increased pollution, and increased human demand and
overuse of water.
3. Sustainable development:
- Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising
the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Simple Recall: What does the picture demonstrate in relation to our previous topic? Write your reflection inside
the box provided below.

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Learning Activities

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Pre-Printed Notes

FREEDOM Defined.
1. The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.
Ex. These days, in theory, just about everyone in the country has freedom to speak.

2. The state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.

Ex. Finally, after three years of my imprisonment, I had tasted freedom again.’

3. Unrestricted use of something.

Ex. We had more or less complete freedom of using our laptop whenever and wherever we wanted.

Different Perspectives: On Freedom

1. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980).

- Freedom is existence. “At this very moment… if I exist, it is because I hate existing. It is I, it is I who
pull myself from the nothingness to which I aspire: hatred and disgust for existence are just so many ways
of making me exist, of thrusting me into existence” (Sartre 1938, 145).

- “Man is nothing else, but what he makes of himself. Man is what he chooses to be.”

2. Emmanuel Kant (1724-1804): Idea of Freedom

- FREEDOM IS THE KEY TO EXPLAIN AUTONOMY OF THE WILL.
- The WILL is a kind of causality belonging to living beings so far as they are rational.
- Freedom would then be the property this causality has of being able to work independently.

3. Eddie R. Babor Ph.D. (Author /Writer)

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Concept Notes (10 Minutes)

Developmental Activity (10 minutes)

Instruction:
A. Modeling/Demonstration: Watch it now! Watch a trailer of the movie, 12 years a Slave. If the video is
unavailable, read the synopsis below.

Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of

New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and Rescued in 1853 (to
be referred to as Twelve Years a Slave) In 1841, Solomon Northup is a free
African-American man working as a violinist, living with his wife and two
children in Saratoga Springs, New York. Two white men, Brown and
Hamilton, offer him short-term employment as a musician if he will travel
with them to Washington, D.C. In pre-Civil War United States, a free man
is abducted and sold into slavery. He worked as a slave for 12 years before
the government was able to locate and free him.

Show connection in relation to Jean-Paul Sartre and Emmanuel Kant

view on Freedom.
What does freedom mean (to a free man)? ________________________
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B. Directed Practice. Fill-in the Venn diagram on the ideas

Perspectives of Freedom
Eddie R. Babor Franklin Roosevelt

C. Application: Read the text below and Compare or Contrast “have a choice” from “exercise a choice”. Answer
in at least two (2) phrases/statements. An example is given for your reference.

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Compare or Contrast
“Have a Choice” “Exercise a Choice”
Ex. Inherent in man Ex. Do what you want.

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Guided Practice (Individual)

Instruction. Read the line below by Thomas Jefferson and explain it in three lines whether you agree or disagree
with it.

“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Thomas Jefferson 1787

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Group activity (2 or 3 members)

Instruction: Find a partner and interpret the song lyrics below. Discuss its meaning in relation to life and
freedom. Make your own interpretation in not less than five (5) sentences. Write your answer below. (Guide for
reflection): Life is about freedom. The more of it we experience, the more we learn to love it. And the more we learn
to love it, the less likely we are to abuse it.

“Don’t Fence Me In.”

(By Cole Porter)

Oh, give me land, lots of land, under starry skies above

Don't fence me in
Let me ride thru the wide-open country that I love
Don't fence me in
Let me be by myself in the evening breeze
Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever, but I ask you please
Don't fence me in.

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Just turn me loose and

Let me straddle my old saddle underneath the western skies
On my cayuse
Let me wander over yonder till I see the mountains rise
I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
Gaze at the moon until I lose my senses
I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences
Don't fence me in.

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Independent Practice (10 minutes)

Instruction: Give at least five (5) consequences if you are not given freedom. No freedom means:

Ex. It diminishes my dignity as a human person.

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Closure Activity (5 minutes)

Man is most alone when he makes a very important choice.

Instruction. Answer the given question below by reflecting on the picture above.

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Question. Are you comfortable with your freedom even if you are alone in your choice? Explain in three (3) lines.

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Enrichment Activity (10 minutes)

Group Activity

Instruction: Read the situation below and explain the nature of freedom being exercised by the subject: how he
makes a choice and on what basis.
Situation

Peter wants to take up Bachelor of Laws, but his parents cannot afford to send him to school. A rich friend of
Peter’s parents want to send him to school (free all school expenses), but they asked Peter to take up Business
instead of Law. Peter does not want to take up the course in business. He doesn’t accept the offer.

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Explore Activity

Instruction: Give your comment on this line.

“Choice makes a man.”

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(For more questions and clarifications, please see me during my consultation hours.)

-Teacher

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