Human Fluorishing

• Human Flourishing


  An endeavor to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals
• Access to a good life

  • A pleasant life
  • An engaged or good life
  • A meaningful life
• Moral wisdom


  The attainment of one's moral end necessitates knowing oneself
• Discontentment


  Comes as a result of one's ignorance of what really constitutes human happiness
• Self-understanding


  More than intellectual knowledge, it comes from how one actually lives his or her life
• Moral wisdom


  Comes from how one actually lives his or her life
• Moral virtue


  The practice of good
• The meaning of human-being was originally the fundamental question of philosophy, which was pursued by the ancient Greek philosophers but later on neglected, if not forgotten, in Western philosophy
• The "inquirer" already has the idea on the term "being" however vague or incomplete
• This somehow justifies human being's adaptability to environmental changes and ability to manipulate the environment in the interest of survival
• Dasein


  Literally means "being there", focuses on the "mode of existence" or the "who" of "Dasein"
• Dasein


  • Dasein exist in a world
  • Dasein has a self that it defines as it exists in such a world
• A human being is endowed with innate abilities and characteristics that let him sustain his function and to survive in the given environment
• Aristotle's teachings


  Each man's life has a purpose and the function of one's life is to attain that purpose
• Happiness


  The moral end of each human act, the highest desire and ambition of all human beings
• To achieve happiness

  • One must cultivate the highest virtues within oneself
  • Human beings have a natural desire and capacity to know and understand the truth, to pursue moral excellence, and to instantiate their ideals in the world through action
• Eudaimonia


  The state of having a good indwelling spirit; a good genius
• Eudaimonia


  In moral philosophy, refers to the right actions as those that result in the well-being of an individual
• Good life


  A sense of inner harmony, the efficient functioning of things
• Human being


  • Possesses a distinctive function to fulfill
  • Goodness is a trait embedded in human nature
• Soul


  • The seat of control, whereas the body is the instrument
  • Consists of rational (intellect) and irrational (vegetative & appetitive-human emotions & desires) elements
• Virtues


  Character traits, living a virtuous life means that one develops the habits of self perfection through constant practice
• Happiness


  Doing well and living well, a pleasant state of mind
• Epicurus's view


  Balance and temperature created space for happiness, freedom from pain & distress
• Nietzsche's view


  Happiness is an "ideal state of laziness", not having any worries or distress in life
• Camus's view

  Life is devoid of intrinsic meaning, "chaining yourself to the absurd" simply means living with the acknowledgement that life is flawed, be happy with our friends, in harmony with the world, and earn our happiness by following a path which nevertheless leads to death
• Philosophers' views are the evidence of objective sense of how it means to flourish
• Flourishing can either be based on the state of mind (e.g mental habit) or a kind of value (e.g insights, outlook)
• • Self-understanding is more than intellectual knowledge. It comes from how one actually lives his or her life.
• • Moral wisdom comes from how one actually lives his or her life.
• • Epicurus (born 341 B.C) was a Greek philosopher who contradicted the metaphysical philosophers.
• • Friedrich Nietzche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s.