Saturday, May 13, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 289.
(Youcat
answer) For a person to be able to use his freedom is a fundamental right based
on his human dignity. An individual’s freedom can be curtailed only if the
exercise of his freedom is detrimental to the freedom of others.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 1738)
Freedom is exercised in relationships between human beings. Every human person,
created in the image of God, has the natural right to be recognized as a free
and responsible being. All owe to each other this duty of respect. The right to the exercise of freedom,
especially in moral and religious matters, is an inalienable requirement of the
dignity of the human person. This right must be recognized and protected by
civil authority within the limits of the common good and public order (Cf. DH 2 § 7).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) Freedom would be no freedom at all if it
were not the freedom to choose even what is wrong. It would violate the dignity
of a man if we did not respect his freedom. One of the central duties of the
State is to protect the liberties of all its citizens (freedom of religion, of
assembly, and association, freedom of opinion, freedom to choose one’s
occupation, and so on). The freedom of one citizen is the limit to the freedom
of another.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1740) Threats to
freedom. The exercise of freedom does not imply a right to say or do
everything. It is false to maintain that man, "the subject of this
freedom," is "an individual who is fully self-sufficient and whose
finality is the satisfaction of his own interests in the enjoyment of earthly
goods" (CDF, instruction, Libertatis
conscientia 13). Moreover, the economic, social, political, and cultural
conditions that are needed for a just exercise of freedom are too often
disregarded or violated. Such situations of blindness and injustice injure the
moral life and involve the strong as well as the weak in the temptation to sin
against charity. By deviating from the moral law man violates his own freedom,
becomes imprisoned within himself, disrupts neighborly fellowship, and rebels
against divine truth.
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