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Group 7

Freedomand love


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What is freedom?

Freedom is the power to be fully oneself, the power tobecome fully one self, to realize fully onespotentialities as a human being.

Firstly freedom is the ability to choose frompossible alternatives: not just anyalternatives but to choose good.


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What is love?

Love is the attraction of the good, is the mostfundamental act.

It is the grasping of the fullness and perfection

of another person as capable of being realizedby oneself and insofar as the realization of thatfullness brings about ones own self-realization, such that one reaches unsuspectedfullness.


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Freedom and love

Freedom is directed towards a goodthat brings out ones fullness andperfection, therefore it can b said

that love is an essential property offreedom.

Freedom is really meant for love , and

freedom without love makes littlesense and is practically worthless.


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Authors Point of view

Freedom and love are complementary

Freedom binds

Freedom and God


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Is the author convincing

Yes he is.

Proofs given:

Marriage, a commitment of loveresults in happiness

By loving something goog we will find

freedom. To choose God is the best use of our

freedom.

Love and commitment and freedom


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Arguments put forth by theAuthor?

In ordinary usage, the word argument isoften used to refer to a heated disputebetween two or more parties.

In philosophy an argument, it is a set ofpropositions, one of which is theCONCLUSION and the others are thePREMISES of the argument.

Choosing marriage is to choose a goodthing, a great thing, if it is a true marriagethat is chosen.

Author argues that one obeys with the


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Consistency and validity ofarguments

Arguments are valid whe theconcluson results/ follows from thepremises. Consistency arises where

there is no contradiction between thepremises provided.

Arguments provided include:

We will experience freedom when welove something that is good

In making a voluntary commitment of

love we will experience happiness


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Relation of arguments withpersonal experience

From our personal experiences we find thatthe authors arguments have relevance andindeed explain our personal experiences.We have learnt that:

loving God yields the greatest freedom,

In the proper exercise of our freedom wemust choose good

Freedom involves an element of restraint


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Positive issues brought out

Freedom and happiness: if man is notfree, he cannot love, and if he does notlove he cannot ever be free.

Freedom and choice: Choice that ismade without love is, at best, a poorexercise of freedom-so poor and exercises

that, at worst; it can be a step towards atotal loss of freedom.

Freedom and respect: freedom

lacking in ideals or values is worthless, this


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Positive issues brought out

Internal freedom and love: From thearticles given we see that man has withinhimself tendencies which must be rightlyordered in order for him to be fully free.

Love and God: The author shows us thatto bind ourselves to God is the freest actand one that sets man free.

The beauty of marriage: Despitepopular belief, the author shows us thatmarriage is a good thing and when wechoose to bind ourselves indissolubly toone person for we will experience true


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Issues left out

Love in a parent child relationship

Love and freedom in arrangedmarriages

The extent of happiness and freedomexperienced by non Christians.


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General lessons learnt by thegroup

Marriage is a good thing.

We must love God and center all ouracts on this love so as to experience

true freedom and happiness. we must subject our passions to the

government of the intellect and will

so as to experience interior freedom. Freedom love and commitment go

hand in hand


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