Human Flourishing in Science and Technology

• Aletheia: means unhiddenness or disclosure
• Poiesis: is defined as bringing forth
• Poiesis: for Aristotle, this means making or producing something in something for a purpose.
• Techne: root word for technology; means skill, art, or craft.
• The Question of Technology: the seminal work of Martin Heidegger that urged us to question technology and see beyond people's common understanding of it.
• Piety: for Heidegger, this means obedience and submission.
• Enframing: putting the nature in a box or in a frame so that it can be better understood and controlled according to people's desires.
• Who said the line "But where danger is, grows the saving power also?

  poet Holderlin
• Art: a way out of enframing
• Four Causes

  1. Causa Materialis
  2. Causa Formalis
  3. Causa Finalis
  4. Causa Efficiens
• Cause Materialis: the material, the matter of which something is made of.
• Causa Formalis: the form, the shape into which the material enters.
• Causa Finalis: the end
• Causa Efficiens: which brings about the effect that is the finished.
• Aition: indectedness, not cause and effect
• Jason Hickel: an anthropologist at the London School of Economics, challenges us to rethink and reflect on a different paradigm of "de-development".
• SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals
• Growth: main strategy for eradicating poverty
• How many hectares of land is a standardized unit that measures resource and waste?

  1.8 Global Hectares
• Theory of Development: Peter Edward argues that instead of pushing poorer countries to "catch up" with rich ones, we should be thinking of ways to get rich countries to "catch down" to more appropriate levels of development.
• What is the life expectancy in IS?

  79 years
• What is the GDP per capita in US?

  $53,000
• Nicomachean Ethics: where Aristotle attempted to explain what good is.
• Good Life: characterized by happiness that springs from living and doing well.
• Eudaimonia: means good life.
• Eu: means good
• Daimon: means spirit
• Happiness: the ultimate end of human action
• Virtue: plays a significant role in the living and attainment of the good life.
• What are the two kinds of Virtue?

  Intellectual Virtue and Moral Virtue
• Intellectual Virtue: in the main owes its birth and growth for teaching
• Moral Virtue: comes about as a result of habit.
• Human Dignity: is a ultimate core value of our existence.
• UDHR: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Technologies threatening to make humans as endangered species

  • Genetics
  • Nanotech
  • Robotics
• Sugars

  • Glucose
  • Fructose
  • Lactose
  • Maltose
  • Sucrose
  • Galactose