The good life

• Wrong pursuits may lead to tragic consequences
• Correct pursuits may lead to flourishing.
• Aristotelean view - Good is based on idea of what is good for the specific entity under consideration
• Nicomachlean ethics - All human activities aim at some good.
• Every art and human inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has been rightly declared as that at which all things aim.
• Materialism - holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental aspects and consciousness are results of material interactions.
• Atomists in Ancient greece- the first materialist
• Democritus and Leucippus led a school whose primary belief is that the world is made up of and is controlled by the tiny invisible units in the world called atomos or seeds.
• Atomos simply comes together randomly to form the things in the world
• Naive materialism-is the unquestioned and unquestioning belief in the primacy of the physical universe.
• Dialectical materialism- is a way of understanding reality; whether thoughts, emotions, or the material world
• Metaphysical materialism- a philosophical approach that argues that all philosophical, emotional, mental, and conscious states are a result from the material/physical world
• Hedonism - a school of thought that argues that the pursuit of pleasure and intrinsic goods are the primary or most important goals of human life.
• Hedonist - strives to maximize net pleasure but when having finally gained that pleasure, happiness remains stationary.
• . Stoicism - Another school of thought led by Epicurus.
• stoics - espoused the idea that to generate happiness
• Stoicism - The path to happiness for humans is found in accepting this moment as it presents itself, by not allowing ourselves to be controlled by our desire for pleasure, or our fear of pain.
• Theism - The belief in the existence of the Supreme Being or Deities
• Theism- Describes the classical conception of God. The ultimate basis of happiness is the communication with God
• Monotheism - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism
• Zeus - King of the Gods, God of the sky, lightning, thunder, law, order, justice
• Poseidon- God of the sea, rivers, floods, droughts, and earthquake
• Hestia- Goddess of the hearth, home, domesticity, virginity, family
• Hera- queen of the gods and the goddess of marriage, women, childbirth
• Humanism- Refers to nontheistic life stance centered on human agency and looking to science rather than revelation from a supernatural source to understand the world.
• Eudaimonia - happiness
• Eu - Good
• Daimonia- life
• Confucius - golden rule
• Humanism - Is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively
• Confucius: What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
• Aristotle: We should behave to others as we wish others to behave to us.
• Buddhism: Hurt not others with that which pains thyself.
• Christianity: D unto others as you would have them do unto you.
• Dasein means “being there” in the world.
• Flourishing - A state in which all aspects of a

  persons life are good.
• Epicurus- “Balance and temperance were created space for

  happiness”
• Plato- “Eudaimonia depends on VIRTUE”
• Socrates - “Virtues guarantee a happy life