STAS 2

• De-developing


  The rich countries should slow down in their consumption so that poor nations can "catch-up"
• 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
• The main objective of the UN's new sustainable development goals is to eradicate poverty by 2030
• The main strategy for eradicating poverty is the same: growth
• Growth has been the main object of development for the past 70 years, despite the fact that it's not working
• We've already grown too much, growth isn't an option any more
• The global crisis is due almost entirely to overconsumption in rich countries
• Our planet only has enough resources for each of us to consume 1.8 "global hectares" annually
• People in the US and Canada consume about 8 hectares per person, while Europeans consume 4.7 hectares – many times their fair share
• Many countries have achieved similar life expectancy with a mere fraction of the income of the US
• Costa Rica manages to sustain one of the highest happiness indicators and life expectancies in the world with a per capita income one-fourth that of the US
• Ecological footprint


  Estimates the biologically productive land and sea area needed to provide the renewable resources that a population consumes and to absorb the wastes it generates
• Human flourishing is defined as an endeavor to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals.
• Human flourishing means access to the pleasant life, the engaged or good life and the meaningful life.
• (Seligman, Steen, Park and Peterson, 2005), stated that human flourishing requires the development of attributes and social and personal levels that exhibit character strengths and virtues that are commonly agreed across different cultures.
• According to Aristotle, there is an end of all the actions that we perform which we desire for itself.
• Flourishing is the greatest good of human endeavors and that toward which all actions aim
• . Aristotle presented the various popular conceptions of the best life for human beings; (1) a philosophical life, (2).life of pleasure and (3) a life of political activity.
• Eudamonia means good spirit is a property of one’s life when considered as a whole.
• Eudaimonia implies a divine state of being that humanity is able to strive toward and possibly reach.
• Happiness is “doing well” and” living well”. It is a pleasant state of mind.
• Epicurus identifies that the eudaimon life is the life of pleasure maintains that life of pleasure coincides with the life of virtue.
• Epicurus understands Eudaimonia as a more or less continuous experience of pleasure and, also freedom from pain and distress.
• Virtue is only instrumentally related to happiness.
• 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. Virtues guarantee a happy life Eudaimonia
• For Plato, Eudaimonia depends on virtue (arête) which is depicted as the most crucial and the dominant constituent of euddaimonia.
• Pyrrho, founder of Pyrrhonism, a school of philosophical skepticism that places the attainment of ataraxia (a state of equanimity) as a way to achieve Eudaimonia.
• Pyrrhonist practice is for the purpose of achieving epoch.
• Dasein” which literally means “being there” focuses on the “mode of existence”
• Eudemonia is consists of Greek words “eu” which means “good” and “daemon” which means “spirit”.