106a - freedom of the human person

A Philosopher that is a Theologian

St. Thomas Aquinas

OPERA SEQUITUR ESSE

essence is the principle of activity or "Like all creatures, man must seek his end in the way set for him by his nature that is intelligent and free. "

Jurist in the tradition of scholasticism

St. Thomas Aquinas

an act that proceeds to the deliberate free will of man

Human Act

Doctor of Angelicus

St. Thomas Aquinas

act that man performs indeliberately, without the advertence and exercise of free will/free choice

Act of Man

Doctor of Communis

St. Thomas Aquinas

Three Essential Elements of an Act to become Human

1. Knowledge 2. Freedom 3. Voluntariness

Doctor of Universalis

St. Thomas Aquinas

a human act must be a knowing and deliberate act. It is also the advertence of what the moral agent is doing, thinking, or willing. It is awareness or consciousness.

Knowledge

Human acts must be free. Every human act is free since it is under the control of the will.

Freedom

a formal quality of human acts whereby any action or omission results from a principle within the agent and from some knowledge that the agent possesses of the end.

Voluntariness

An intrinsic and essential property of the person.

Freedom

Who’s theory is Classical conditioning?

Ivan Pavlov

This means that the human person by nature is a free being and it is in his or her nature to seek freedom.

Freedom

It is understood as the power to be what you want to be and the ability to decide and create your self.

Freedom

Origin of freedom

Imago Dei/image of god

Rooted in the human person's self-determination and the exercise of intellect and free will.

Freedom

The very essence of man’s freedom

To do what is good and avoid what is evil.

Requires a degree of control from the person who exercised it.

Freedom

Given to us to incline ourselves to the Supreme Being

Free Will

________ must always come with a rational and logical intellect

Free Will