midterm sts

• Eudaimonia


  Literally "good spirited", a term coined by Greek Philosopher Aristotle to describe the pinnacle of happiness that is attainable by humans
• Human flourishing


  An effort to achieve self actualization and fulfilment within the context of larger community of individuals each with the right to pursue his or her own such effort
• Every discovery, innovation, and success contributes to our pool of human knowledge
• Human's perpetual need to locate himself in the world by finding proofs to trace evolution
• Science


  • Its reputation stems from the objectivity brought upon by an arbitrary, rigid methodology whose very character absolves it from any accusation of prejudice
• Scientific method


  1. Observe

  2. Determine the problem

  3. Formulate hypothesis

  4. Conduct experiment

  5. Gather and analyze

  6. Formulate conclusion and provide recommendation
• Verification theory


  The earliest criterion that distinguishes philosophy and science, proposing that a discipline is science if it can be confirmed or interpreted in the event of an alternative hypothesis being accepted
• Falsification theory


  Asserts that as long as an ideology is not proven to be false and can best explain a phenomenon over alternative theories, we should accept the said ideology. A falsification of a hypothesis implies that an observation, or another verified hypothesis, opposes the hypothesis
• The particular period where technology is used to have started
• Humans are able to utilize abundant materials for their own ease and comfort
• Homo Erectus


  • Human-like body proportions and upright stance, a protruding brow ridge, large face and no chin
  • Brain size: about 550-1,250cm3
  • Height: about 1.4-1.8m
  • Weight: about 41-65kg
  • Sharpen stones as one would a knife (e.g. Wedge)
• No written accounts except for several cave drawings and unearthed artifacts from various parts of the world
• The people discovered minerals and began forging metal works, fur clothing and animal skin
• The different tribes may have had different gods
• The Holocene extinction, also called the sixth extinction
• They were enable to trade with other town
• People then had a new objective "gather as much product as possible" They have turned to wealth as one of their goals
• Ultimately civilization
• They began to form, hunt and produce things with prospect of profit
• Humanity become more complex The primary goal was not merely to survive, but to live the good life
• Mortality Rate


  Due to technology lesser women and children die during birth, medical care for premature infants and proper maternal care
• Average Lifespan


  Science is able to prolong lives by enhancing living status and discovering different remedies to most diseases
• Literacy Rate


  Access to education
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP)


  Higher country incomes is brought upon by high productivity
• The essence of technology is not something we make; it is a mode of being, or of revealing
• We are "developed" than we were before
• Plato recognized change as a phenomenon that happens in the world, it is constant
• World of matter


  Also known as Physical realism, things are changing, the things we see and interact with daily, changing and imperfect, shadow or image
• World of Forms


  Also known as spiritual realism, exist beyond world of matter, perfect and unchanging, the ideal and real model
• Aristotle disagreed with Plato's position, there is no reality over and above what the senses can perceive. Every actions that emanates from a human person is a function of the person has
• Happiness as a goal of good life

  According to John Stuart Mill, an action is right as far as it maximizes the attainment of happiness for the greatest number of people
• Materialism (Atomist)


  The first materialist were the atomist in Ancient Greece, in the term of human flourishing, "matter" is what makes us attain happiness
• Hedonism (Epicurus)


  Pleasure has always been the priority of hedonist, the goal of life is acquiring pleasure, "Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we are"
• Stoicism (Epicurus)


  The stoics espoused the idea that to generate happiness, one must distance oneself and be apathetic, "apatheia" means to be indifferent, adopt the fact that see thing one not within our control, the sooner we realize this, the happier we can become
• Theism (theist)


  The meaning of their lives using god as a fulcrum of their existence, the ultimate basis of happiness for theists is the communion with God
• Humanism (Humanist)


  Man is literally the captain of his own ship, "freedom" of man to carve his own destiny and to legislate his own laws
• The Information Age is characterized by very fast growth in communication and information technology from the 1940s/50s to now
• Computers in the Information Age

  • 1950s-1970s - Mainframe computing (Business & Colleges)
  • 1980s and 1990s- Home computing
  • 2000s to present Wireless computing
• Computers went from being ISOLATED to being able to COMMUNICATE with each other
• Developments in the Information Age

  • Internet
  • World Wide Web
  • Email
  • IM
  • SMS