Lesson 4 & 5

• Flourishing


  is the complete goodness of humans in a developmental life-span,

  that somehow includes positive psychological functioning and

  positive social functioning, along with other basic goods.
• Perspective


  • purpose
  • values
  • mindfulness
  • savoring
  • gratitude
  • Optimism
• People


  • Supportive Relationships
  • Interconnectedness
  • compassion
  • community
  • contribution
• Power


  • Engaged Living
  • Personal Growth
  • Flow Experiences
  • self-compassion
  • exercise
  • meditation
• positive mind

  positive vibes

  positive life
• Flourishing goes beyond happiness or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy, but that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good- adding value to the world.
• Human flourishing


  An effort to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment with in a center

  of larger community of individuals each with the right to pursue his or her own effort.
• ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN HUMAN FLOURISHING

  Technology changes us and the world around us in countless ways. Iteases our labor, cures diseases, provides abundant food and clean

  water, enables communication and travel across the globe, and

  expands our knowledge of the natural world and the cosmos.
• Human civilization and the development of Science and Technology

  • Human person as both bearer and beneficiary of science and technology.
  • Human flourishes and find meaning in the world he or she builds.
  • Human may unconsciously acquire, consume or destroy the world.
• Science and Technology

  • Must be treated as part of human life that needs reflective thinking and meditative thinking.
  • Reflective thinking is a learning process that involves a series of cognitive skills in the search for new understanding.
  • Meditative thinking is a kind of thinking that thinks the truth of being belongs to being and listens to it.
  • Science and technology must be examined for their greater impact on humanity.
• Martin Heidegger


  • a German philosopher and, a seminal thinker and is "widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century. “
  • He is best known for his seminal essay “The Question Concerning Technology (1954)”.
• The Question Concerning Technology

  • Heidegger criticizes technology because of its limiting nature that prevents further understanding of its true essence.
  • Heidegger does not problematize the existence of technology but the way people orient themselves around technology.
  • It is rooted in the idea that solving problems caused by technology cannot be solved by simply improving technology.
  • Technology is not purely technological
• Common Understanding of Technology

  • Means to an end
  • Human Activity
  • Practical Application of Science
• TWO FUNCTIONS


  • Instrumental
  • Anthropological
• Instrumental


  A means to an end, instrumental, functional, purposeful developed with a purpose to solve something
• Anthropological


  A human activity such as the manufacture & utilization of equipment, tools & machines
• Technology as a way of revealing


  • Heidegger points out that technology are built and operated by human beings but the essence of technology is something else entirely.
  • According to Heidegger technology must be understand as a way of revealing.
  • Revealing – to uncover what was covered over. ( to discover)
  • came from the Greek word “aletheia” which means “truth”, brings out of concealment into unconcealment or to uncover
• Good Life


  • Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
  • Eudaimonia
  • Arete and Human happiness
• What topics does Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics explore?

  Ethics, happiness, and moral virtues
• What are some of the themes covered in Nicomachean Ethics?


  Friendship, justice, courage and contemplation
• When was Aristotle born?


  Around 384 BC
• Where was Aristotle born?


  Stagira
• Who was Aristotle a disciple of?


  Plato
• Who did Aristotle tutor?


  Alexander the Great
• What philosophical school did Aristotle found?


  The Lyceum
• What areas did Aristotle study and teach?


  Philosophy, logic, ethics, politics, and biology
• What is the ultimate goal, according to Aristotle?


  The good life
• Besides philosophy, what scientific fields did Aristotle contribute to?

  Biology and physics
• Aristotle explained that every action aims at some good.


  1. Instrumental Good
  2. Intrinsic Good
• Eudaimonia: Ultimate Good


  • EU- good
  • MONIA- spirit
  • Good life is characterized by happiness that springs from living and doing well.
  • Eudaimonia is unique to human for it is a uniquely human function.
• ARETE and Human Happiness


  • ARETE- excellence of any kind of human virtue.
• 2 Types of Virtues

  1. Intellectual Virtue
  2. Moral Virtue
• Intellectual Virtue


  • virtue of thought
  • achieve through education , time and experience
  • wisdom and understanding
• Moral Virtue


  • virtue of character
  • achieve through habitual practice
  • generous and courage
• • Intellect and moral virtue should be in accordance with reason to achieve EUDAIMONIA
  • Indifference with these virtues leads human away from Eudaimonia
  • A virtue is ruined by any excess and deficiency in how one live an act.
• Form of Happiness


  1. Life of pleasure and enjoyment
  2. Life as free and responsible citizen
  3. Life as thinker and philosopher
• Element of Good Life

  1. experiencing pleasure
  2. seeking self-development
  3. avoiding negative experience
  4. making contribution to others
• Real Goods By Aristotle

  1. bodily goods
  2. external goods
  3. good of the soul
• Aristotle notion on tripartite soul

  1. human- rational
  2. animal- sensitive
  3. plants- nutritive
• Good Life

  • A life filled in material pleasure and luxuries.
  • A life marked by a high standard.
  • A life according to moral values and religious law of one’s culture.