Human Flourishing

• Human flourishing refers to the overall well-being and fulfillment of individuals, encompassing physical, mental, and emotional health.
• Human flourishing is a subject teacher.
• The scientific method and validity of science are determined.
• Human flourishing is criticized vis-a-vis the progress of science and technology to define a good life for themselves.
• Eudaimonia, coined by renowned Greek philosopher Aristotle, describes the pinnacle of happiness that is attainable by humans.
• Eudaimonia is often translated into “human flourishing” in literature, likening humans to flowers achieving their full bloom.
• Nicomachean Ethics is a philosophical inquiry into the nature of the good life for a human being, beginning with the postulate that there exists some ultimate good toward which, in the final analysis, all human actions ultimately aim.
• The necessary characteristics of the ultimate good are that it is complete, final, self-sufficient and continuous.
• Justice is one of the peaks of virtue, being truly just requires having all the other virtues, and justice unifies and orders the virtues.
• Natural Justice is the same in all times and places, while Legal Justice is just according to law; it ought to be in accordance with natural justice.
• All laws are in some sense just, since any law is better than no law, and to be truly just, a law must be in accordance with natural justice.
• Eudaimonism posits that individuals should possess intellectual virtues that enable them to determine truth from falsehood or good reasoning from poor reasoning.
• A true eudaemon recognizes that flourishing requires one to excel in various dimensions such as linguistic, kinetic, artistic, and socio-civic.
• One should understand that focusing on one aspect alone is not sufficient for flourishing.
• Economists believe that growth is the primary indicator of development and have put forth their resources in trying to achieve such.
• Technology has been a primary instrument in enabling economists to pursue goals, utilizing resources, machineries, and labor.
• The world’s resources can only provide so much, it cannot be expected to stretch out for everybody’s consumption over a long period of time.
• Growth is not infinite.
• The capacity of nature to accommodate us is limited.
• According to Jason Hickel, developed countries should not push forth more growth but instead adopt “de-development” policies (reducing consumption) or else, everybody loses.
• The rapid pace of technological growth allows no room for nature to recuperate, resulting in exploitation and irreversible damages to nature.
• Right now, we are experiencing repercussions of said exploits in the hands of man-made climate change which would affect majority of flora and fauna.
• If this continues in its currently alarming rate, we might bring about our own extinction.
• Law is crucial for the moral education of citizens, habituating them in virtuous action, and laws are necessary in order to formulated in a universal way and thus are not able to take into account the particulars of each situation.
• The ultimate good, as defined by Aristotle, is happiness, which is the active exercise of the soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue.
• The highest happiness for a human being is a life of contemplation, but secondary happiness is achieved through ethical virtue.
• Ethical virtue is a habit disposed toward action by deliberate choice, being at the mean relative to us, and defined by reason as a prudent man would define it.
• Ethical virtue includes 11 virtues: courage, temperance, generosity, magnificence, magnanimity, right ambition, good temper, friendliness, truthfulness, wit, and justice.
• For Popper, science should attempt to disprove a theory, rather than attempt to continually support theoretical hypotheses.
• Falsification theory states that a proposition is rejected when it is found to be false.
• Falsification theory can be exemplified by the case of Lea and Ian, where Lea initially dislikes Ian but eventually warms up to him after learning that he is not a threat.
• There is no known rule as to the number of instances that a theory is rejected or falsified in order for it to be set aside.
• Falsification method is more accepted, but scientists are still not convinced that it should be regarded as what makes a discipline scientific.
• “Verification” refers to statements that are shown to be true, while “Falsification” is to be understood as the rejection of statements.
• The goal of science is to create knowledge by identifying true statements as true (verified) and false statements as false (falsified).
• Popper showed that hypothesis cannot be empirically verified but only falsified.
• The inclusiveness of the methodologies previously cited, a new school of thought on the proper demarcation criterion of science emerged.
• Sciences cease to belong solely to gown-wearing, bespectacled scientists at laboratories.
• The new view perpetuates a dimension which generally benefits the society.
• People who do not understand science are won over when the discipline is able to produce results.