GE 7

• Environment


  Everything that surrounds us
• Environmentalism


  An advocacy on how to preserve and improve our cultural environment
• Environmentalist


  People studying the environment
• Being environmentally aware


  • A person recognizes that their behavior and lifestyle affect the environment in a variety of ways
• Environmentalism


  More on advocacy
• Environmental Science


  Requires a degree, studying all aspect; living and non-living things
• Importance of Environmental Science

  • To have someone to help the environment
  • It discusses the major environmental problems and necessary solutions
  • To have a proper discipline towards behavior
• Weather


  Per day occurrences or a temporary condition
• Climate


  Long term condition
• Natural causes of climate change

  • Volcanic eruption
  • Ocean currents
  • Earth's orbit is not fixed
  • Solar energy output also changes
• Climate system naturally fluctuates and changes over the course of the earth's history
• Every living creature is meant to become what it is meant to be
• Flourishing


  The highest good of human attempt to achieve his/her goal. It is a success as a human being when he/she achieved it for the betterment of his/her life
• Aristotle's flourishing


  • Arises as a product of different factors such as phronesis, friendship, wealth and power
  • To achieve the true meaning of happiness these qualities should be acquired
  • For Aristotle, the good is what is good for purposeful and goal-directed entities
  • Good means "good for" the individual moral agent
  • Egoism is an integral part of Aristotle's ethics
• People found means to live more comfortably, explore more places, develop more products, and make more money
• Early people relied on animals for their transportation, stones and spears to hunt food; skin of animals and used it as clothes; they used stones to make fire and lastly a cave as their shelter
• Eastern Society


  More community-centric
• Western Society


  Be more focused on the individual
• Science is a voyage of exploration just to find out how things work and it's really interesting because it is an ongoing and endless process
• People tend to look for the betterment of their lives each and every day
• Science


  An organized way of studying things and finding answers to questions
• Scientific method


  1. Observe

  2. Identify the problem

  3. Hypothesis

  4. Experiment

  5. Gather and Analyze data

  6. Formulate conclusion
• Scientific Method is a logical process for experimentation
• Some areas of science can be more easily tested than others. If direct experimentation is not possible, scientists modify the scientific method
• Importance of diversity and collaboration in the scientific community towards human flourishing


  • Collaboration and diversity balance possible biases
  • Diversity and collaboration stimulate problem solving
  • Diversity and collaboration facilitate specialization
  • Diversity and collaboration are inspiration and motivation
  • Diversity and collaboration divide labor
• Scientific method gives a logical way on how to solve a problem and to improve our daily living, but science does not work alone
• Three main perspectives on the good life

  • The Moral Life: This view emphasizes moral virtues such as courage, honesty, and selflessness
  • The Life of Pleasure: this perspective focuses on experiencing pleasure as the essence of a good life
  • The Fulfilled Life: suggests that happiness is the ultimate goal of life, achieved through a combination of moral virtue, pleasure, health, prosperity, friendship, respect, and meaningful engagement with the world
• Materialism


  The universe and matter are only made up of atoms "atomos or seeds". These are indivisible particles, assembled by chance and in a purely mechanical way
• Hedonism


  The end goal of life in attaining pleasure. For hedonists, since life is limited, one must indulge itself with pleasures "Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die"
• Stoicism


  It asserts that virtue (e.g. wisdom) is happiness and judgment should be based acts on behavior rather than words. This philosophy, helps a person to overcome destructive emotions and acts on what can be acted upon
• Theism


  A belief that one or more gods exist within the universe, and that gods are often omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful), and omnipresent (all-pervasive)
• Humanism


  A school of thought that affirms that human beings have the right and responsibility to give meaning and shape their own lives. Humanists see themselves not only as the stewards of creation but as Individuals who have control for themselves as well as the world outside them
• Technology


  Discourse on arts. Machine and tools were also attached to the word "technology"
• Most people are survived their everyday lives with great reliance to the different technological advancements
• Technology keeps on progressing due to not only the changing times and environment but also to the ever- progressing mind of mankind
• Different problems arise when either the technological device available is Misused - it was invented to produce people bad result
• Celebrities in the field of technology

  • Television
  • Mobile Phones
  • Computers and Laptops
• 92 percent of urban homes and 70 percent of rural homes own at least one television set
• 15.135 M users, almost Filipinos use this particular type of device
• Use of mobile phones for different purposes. It was also claimed that mobile phones are considered a must-have among young people