Lesson 1

LEVELING UP WITH
THE INTELLECT AND
FREE WILL
CONTENT
STANDARDS:
The learner demonstrates understanding of
using the intellect in search of the truth and
using the free will for service and love

PERFORMANCE
STANDARDS:
The learner demonstrates appropriate
actions to show the ability to search for truth,
to serve, and to love.
LEARNING
COMPETENCIES
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
1. Describe the higher-level use and purpose of
intellect and free will;
2. Recognize weaknesses in decision-making and
take steps to overcome them
3. Show evidence of the use or purpose of the
intellect and free will:
4. Take appropriate steps to show skills for truth,
service, and love.
 Open your book at Page 3 and read the instruction on
“Review of Concepts Learned About the Intellect and
Free Will”.

Use: Critical Thinking Purpose: Truth

INTELLECT Numbers: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
(Set a)

Use: Choose whether to Purpose: Service and

Act OR Not Love

FREE WILL Numbers: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

(SET B)
1. Gather information about an incident that made a
classmate sad.
2. Be accountable for an action that will be good for all
3. Ponder on the purpose and meaning of the information
you have collected
4. Analyze and determine the reasons for one’s sadness
5. Search additional data if information if insufficient
6. Determine the good and evil, right and wrong, and real
occurrences
7. Choose freely what to think or do
8. Reconcile what you observed with other reports
9. Make sure to act based on what's right and good
10.Desire, seek , choose and get interested in any information
that is understood by the intellect
11.Perform a well-thought-out action in a given circumstance
12.Implement or apply knowledge, skills and values for daily
living
13.Judge and decide based on clear standards of morality
14.Use freedom with accountability on the outcome of a
decision an action
15.Discipline yourself and control intense emotion when
needed
16.Have the passion to change and grow
1. Gather information about an incident that made a
classmate sad.
2. Be accountable for an action that will be good for all
3. Ponder on the purpose and meaning of the information
you have collected
4. Analyze and determine the reasons for one’s sadness
5. Search additional data if information if insufficient
6. Determine the good and evil, right and wrong, and real
occurrences
7. Choose freely what to think or do
8. Reconcile what you observed with other reports
9. Make sure to act based on what's right and good
10.Desire, seek , choose and get interested in any information
that is understood by the intellect
11.Perform a well-thought-out action in a given circumstance
12.Implement or apply knowledge, skills and values for daily
living
13.Judge and decide based on clear standards of morality
14.Use freedom with accountability on the outcome of a
decision an action
15.Discipline yourself and control intense emotion when
needed
16.Have the passion to change and grow
Think About These:
• What are the evidences of an informed intellect
and decision-making that lead to truth?
• What happens if a person is not knowledgeable of
the Moral Law or of moral teachings?
• What are the evidences that free will guides a
person to help the less the less fortunate?
• How can you check if your intellect leads you to
the truth and your free will is capable of guiding
you to love others?
 BASIC CONCEPTS ON THE
INTELLECT AND FREE WILL

• A reasonable mind and free decision-making set

the human person apart from all being.
• A person can have a deep and high level of
thinking and freedom to make decisions for the
good and right action.
 BASIC CONCEPTS ON THE
INTELLECT AND FREE WILL

• .Thinking is a human process that you go through

to understand things or events.
• Through this process, you can know, evaluate,
check, and interpret information gathered, for
instance getting facts about viral news on social
media.
 BASIC CONCEPTS ON THE
INTELLECT AND FREE WILL

• . Free will is the ability to freely decide whether to

choose or reject what ought to be done based on
gathered information and understanding of the
mind.
 BASIC CONCEPTS ON THE
INTELLECT AND FREE WILL

• The two concepts, intellect and free will, are

intertwined and are not in isolation.
 BASIC CONCEPTS ON THE
INTELLECT AND FREE WILL

• With your free will, you can reflect on what you prefer or
would like to do based on what you have thought about.

• Your mind can analyze, assess, and judge the things,

events, or circumstances that are presented as good or bad
to your free will.
 BASIC CONCEPTS ON THE
INTELLECT AND FREE WILL

• Many people do what is contrary to the truth because of

their lack of information about what is right and good.
 BASIC CONCEPTS ON THE
INTELLECT AND FREE WILL

• Many intellectuals who are very good at understanding and

explaining things but whose free will is not strong enough
to choose what is good, so they are led to do otherwise.
 BASIC CONCEPTS ON THE
INTELLECT AND FREE WILL

• When something is based on truth, it is most

likely good, and it does not harm people.
 BASIC CONCEPTS ON THE
INTELLECT AND FREE WILL

• Truth is seen in the merits of righteousness,

like how it is right and just that you first
validate the truthfulness of a viral news before
you decide to share it on social media. Your
decision can help stop or spread news of this
kind.
 BASIC CONCEPTS ON THE
INTELLECT AND FREE WILL

• You obtain this capacity by developing

righteous values or ethical behavior and moral
living. You do not just accept information if you
have evidences that show otherwise.
 Raising the Level of
Using the Intellect and
Free Will
Raising the Level of Using the Intellect and Free
Will

What is the difference between a dog and a

person looking for food when they are
hungry and must eat in order to relieve their
hunger?
Raising the Level of Using the Intellect and Free
Will

Upon seeing food, the dog would eat it quickly, unmindful of

whoever owns it or whether it is clean or not.
Raising the Level of Using the Intellect and Free
Will

On the other hand, the hungry person would first think of a

way to find food. If he/she finds any food, he/she would first
check whether he/she can eat it, especially if someone else
owns it.
Raising the Level of Using the Intellect and Free
Will

• As a person, you can understand, use language, make

inferences, and plan for your future
• As a person, you have the capability to interpret events and
observations. At a higher level of inference, you can form
deeper concepts about life, purposes, beliefs, values,
morality, community, and justice..
Raising the Level of Using the Intellect and Free
Will

•For instance, knowing that corruption is

morally wrong even if for personal wants,
may keep you from doing this evil deed.
 Stages in the Use of
the intellect and Free
Will
Stages in the Use of the intellect and Free Will

• First stage: The mind identifies a situation and the goal is

right and good. The free will in turn agrees with a simple
choice according to the goal. It may also not agree or may
change the situation identified.
Stages in the Use of the intellect and Free Will

• Second stage: The mind determines that the purpose is

attainable and is within human power. In the meantime, the
free will has the intent to achieve the purpose through ways
and means.
Stages in the Use of the intellect and Free Will

• Third Stage: The mind guides and reveals different ways of

achieving the purpose. In the meantime, the free will
accepts a way or may ask for other ways.
Stages in the Use of the intellect and Free Will

• Fourth Stage: The mind identifies the best way for the
situation. The free will chooses the best method defined by
the mind.
Stages in the Use of the intellect and Free Will

• Fifth stage: The mind orders what is best to do. The free will
uses or controls the body or thinking that is required.
Can you guess?
Steps in training your Intellect and Free Will
 Steps in training
your Intellect and
Free Will
Steps in training your intellect to resolve a
moral issue

According to Dr. Michael Muega (2008) there

are certain steps to be followed to train your
intellect and how to resolve a moral issue
Steps in training your intellect to resolve a
moral issue

1. Clarify the issue – At this step, you must

clearly state the issue that you would like to
analyze and make this specific with no other
intervening issue
 Examples of Moral Issues

1. Gambling toward worship 16. Blasphemy 23. Maligning

2. tattoos another 11. envy 17. Fornication 24. false
3. lying (comes human 12. illegal drug 18. the lottery testimony
in several being use 19. Covetousnes
forms) 7. fighting in a 13. Stealing s
4. being drunk war
14. Slander 20. Homosexual
or disorderly 8. Abortion 15. Illegal ity
5. Adultery 9. Murder measuring 21. Pornography
6. violence 10. idol or devices 22. Cheating
animal
Steps in training your intellect to resolve a
moral issue

2. Enumerate all the values associated

with the issue – Specify all values
connected with both sides of the issue.
Steps in training your intellect to resolve a
moral issue

3. Gather important information about

the issue – Mention important
information, data, evidence about the
issue for both sides.
Steps in training your intellect to resolve a
moral issue

4. Choose your position on the issue and the

data to support the position (warrants and
qualifiers) – From the gathered information,
you may choose to seek the side that you
think is righteous and defend it using moral
principles.
Steps in training your intellect to resolve a
moral issue

Warrants are logically and interrelated

proofs.

Qualifiers are sentences of condition.

Steps in training your intellect to resolve a
moral issue

5. Present the other position and the data

to support it (rebuttals) – It is important that
you also know the data that support the
other side.
Steps in training your intellect to resolve a
moral issue

6. Decide on the issue – These are sentences

that provide support that may not be direct
to the main position but support the
presented proofs.
Truth, Service, Love:
Levelling up the Mind
and Free Will
Truth, Service, Love: Levelling up the Mind and
Free Will
TRUTH
• Make decisions based on truth (thorough
and sincere knowing and understanding
• Many things in the society needs to be
verified if they are true or not
Truth, Service, Love: Levelling up the Mind and
Free Will
Service and Love
• Service and Love is the application of Truth
• It is truth that mobilizes good and pushes
people to do good for others
• Selfless love for others is the truth they
realize