Intro To Philo Week 8

The Human Person in
their Environment
(Prudence and
Quarter 1- Module 4- Week 8
Frugality)
Most Essential Learning Competency:
• Demonstrate the virtues of prudence
and frugality towards environment.
PPT11/12-Ij-4.3
OBJECTIVES:
• Discuss the functions of society about the
virtues of prudence and frugality toward
environment.
• Encourage the human being to foster
prudence and moderation of frugality
toward Environment.
Lesson 4: The Human Person in Their
Environment (Prudence and Frugality)
In the previous lesson you learned the
importance of environment in our life. What you
do to your self is what you do to your environment.
Since we are said to be the highest form of God’s
creation and has the ability to take care of His
creation so we must act in accordance of His will
for the preservation of our environment for the
next generation. Because the future of our
environment depends on how we treat our Mother
Earth.
Give the four (4) Attribution of Moral
Consideration and explain each.
In this lesson you will learn the importance
of prudence and frugality and how to apply it
in our daily living. How can one lessen the
waste he/she is making? How can one be
more efficient and more responsible in using
natural resources?
• Do you conserve energy, water? In what way?
• Do you save your food or money? In what way?
• For you, what does the picture symbolize?
Prudence and Frugality
According to Erich Fromm
1. The willingness to give up all forms of
having, in order to fully be
2. Being fully present where one is.
3. Trying to reduce greed, hate, and
illusions as much as one is capable.
4. Making the full growth of oneself and
of one’s fellow beings as the supreme goal
of living.
5. Not deceiving others, but also not being deceived by
others; one may be Called innocent, but not naïve.
6. Freedom that is not arbitrariness but the possibility to
be oneself, not as a
a bundle of greedy desires, but as a delicately balanced
structure that at any moment is confronted with the
alternatives of growth or decay, life or death.
7. Happiness in the process of ever-growing aliveness,
whatever the furthest Point is that fate permits one to
reach, for living as fully as one can is so satisfactory that
the concern for what one might not attain has little
chance to develop.
8. Joy that comes from giving and sharing,
not from hoarding and exploiting.
9. Developing one’s capacity for love,
together with one’s capacity for critical, in
unsentimental thought.
10. Shedding one’s narcissism and
accepting that tragic limitations inherent
in human existence.
Prudence
Prudence- is the capacity to direct and
discipline one’s activities and behaviour
using reason.
Prudence According to Adam
Smith
According to Adam Smith’s The
Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), a
truly righteous person embodies the
value of prudence since it controls
one’s overindulgences and as such is
vital for a certain society.
Prudence According to St.
Thomas Aquinas
As St. Thomas Aquinas argued,
prudence is not purely an individual
virtue, but concerns the social
dimension too. It means that
prudence favours not only the private
good of a certain person, but also the
common good.
The following are examples of Prudence:
• Cooking and consuming food

with little to no leftovers.
• Planting trees in replacement of
cut-down ones.
• Employing waste segregation
strategies in the community.
Frugality
Frugality is the quality of being thrifty.
It is the careful supervision of one’s
resources, another fundamental value
that can help us develop a sense of right
and wrong and attain whatever we want
in life.
Frugality
Commonly, when we talk about frugality,
we are talking about the cautious
management of material resources,
especially money.
How can frugality help in solving
environmental problems?
Well, one of the main benefits of being a
frugal person is that it is environmentally
friendly. When someone is being frugal in
using natural resources like electricity
and water, this person is putting lesser
damage on our natural environment.
Furthermore, a frugal person usually lives
out the idea of “reduce, reuse, recycle”
just to minimize expenses.
KEY POINTS
• Prudence is the ability to have

good judgement that allows
avoidance of dangers and risks.
• Frugality is the act of using
money or other resources
wisely and practically .
Write 1 environmental issue
due to human activities and
apply the virtue of prudence
and frugality to address this
issue.
THANK YOU
FOR
LISTENING!

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