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• Philosophy - The study of general and fundamental

  problems concerning matters such as

  existence, knowledge, values, reason,

  mind and language.
• Martin Heidegger - German philosopher whose work is associated with phenomenology and

  existentialism.
• Instrumental definition - “Technology is a means to an end”
• Destiny - is neither an inevitable fate that descends on humanity nor the result of human will.
• twofold danger of destiny

  1. reduces itself to standing reserve and in so appearing
  2. disclosure of the enframing forecloses very other dispensation
• Technology brings forth as well, and it

  is revealing.
• He also described modern technology

  as the age of switches, standing

  reserve and stockpiling for its own

  sake.
• Piety - mans obedience and submission
• Enframing - Way of revealing in

  Modern Technology
• Calculative thinking - One orders and puts a

  system to nature so it can be understood

  better and controlled
• Mediative thinking - One lets nature reveal

  itself to him/ her without forcing it.
• Human flourishing - an endeavor to achieve

  self-actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals
• human flourishing - This also means access to

  a pleasant life, an engaged or good life

  and a meaningful life.
• (Seligman, Steen, Park and Peterson,

  2005) - stated that human flourishing

  requires the development of attributes

  and social and personal levels
• According to Aristotle - Flourishing is the

  greatest good of human endeavors and

  that toward which all actions aim.
• Aristotle presented various popular conceptions of the best life for human;

  1. A Philosophical life
  2. Life of Pleasure
  3. A life of Political Life
• Eudamonia - means good spirit is a property of

  one’s life when considered as a whole
• Epicurus - identifies that the Eudaimon

  life is the life of pleasure and maintains

  that life of pleasure coincides with the

  life of virtue.
• Socrates - believed that virtues such as

  self-control, justice, courage, wisdom,

  piety and related qualities of mind and

  soul are absolutely crucial if a person is

  to lead a good and happy life.
• Plato - Eudaimonia depends on

  virtue (arête) which is depicted as the

  most crucial and the dominant

  constituent of eudaimonia.
• Pyrrho - founder of pyrrhonism
• Pyrrhonism - a school of philosophical skepticism that places the attainment of ataraxia (a state of

  equanimity) as a way to achieve Eudaimonia.
• Good Life - people have different ideas of what constitutes good life
• Aristotle ( Nicomachean 22 )- All human activities aim at some good.
• Eu - good, daimon
• Spirit - good life
• Virtue - intellectual and moral
• health, wealth, love, happiness - 4 pillars of good life
• Confucius - what you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others
• Heidegger - Living an authentic life means

  living with deep acceptance on

  the facticity of death resulting

  to a life lived
• Socrates - The unexamined life is not

  worth living for
• The Holistic Approach - good people, good community

  and world peace= good life
• The first materialists were the atomists in Ancient Greece.
• Atomos simply come together randomly to form the things in the world.
• Hedonism - Is a school of thought that argues that

  the pursuit of pleasure and intrinsic goods are the primary or most important goals of human life.
• A hedonist strives to maximize net pleasure (pleasure minus pain) but when having finally gained that pleasure, happiness remains

  stationary.
• Humanity - A virtue associated with basic ethics of altruism derived from the human condition.
• Human robot interaction - the era of present technology, robotics has become a big part of our

  collective lives.
• According to University of California

  researchers, we spend 12 hours in front

  of TV and computers at home.
• C.S.Lewis - he argued that humanity, so

  –called power over nature “turns out to

  be a power exercised by some men over

  other men with Nature as its instrument