FREEDOM AS

AN EXISTENTIAL
CONDITION
 ACTIONS CONSEQUENCES
(Immediate or
Long-Term)
1. A Financial
scholarship is awarded
to a student who can
actually study without
financial aid.
PAN-DETERMINISMS
VIEW OF FREEDOM
AS AN ILLUSION
PAN-DETERMINISM is the
view which disregards the
human capacity to take a
stand toward any conditions
whatsoever Frankl 1984
 FREEDOM IS THE
ILLUSION OF AN
IMPRISONED MIND
-Leonid S. Sukhorukov
A. BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM
For pan-determinism, human
genetic make-up plays a big
role in human behavior,
attitude, and personality.
 ACTIONS CONSEQUENCES
(Immediate or
Long-Term)
2. A teenager
spends more than
his/her daily
allowance.
B. PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINISM
Human actions, according to Freud,
are not free. Human actions may
appear free, but they are nothing
but a manifestation of the various
mental states, which humans are not
aware of.
CONSCIOUS MIND
PRECONSCIOUS MIND

UNCONSCIOUS MIND
 ACTIONS CONSEQUENCES
(Immediate or
Long-Term)
3. Daily consumption
of sweet, milky
coffees from socially
upscale coffee shops.
C. SOCIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM
According to Skinner (1971), there is
no autonomous agent in humans
that determines their actions.
Human behavior is shaped by
external conditions and not by the
so-called inner-self.
 ACTIONS CONSEQUENCES
(Immediate or
Long-Term)
4. Riding a
motorcycle
without proper
gear.
 ACTIONS CONSEQUENCES
(Immediate or
Long-Term)
5. Overeating
 ACTIONS CONSEQUENCES
(Immediate or
Long-Term)
6. Being a shopaholic
or wanting the latest
in fashion and
technology trends.
 ACTIONS CONSEQUENCES
(Immediate or
Long-Term)
7. Taking photos of
teachers lectures
instead of writing
them down.
 ACTIONS CONSEQUENCES
(Immediate or
Long-Term)
8. Overly relying on
the internet as
source of
information.
 What can you say about the
pictures? Have you been in
this kind of situation?

What are the things that

you considered in making
choices?
 PREPARED BY:
MR. RODELIO M. ALBA, MPA
HUMSS Coordinator
St. Joseph College Olongapo, Inc.
Senior High School Department