Science Technology Society

• This lesson discusses on what is eudaimonic life, human flourishing and its relationship with science and technology
• Happiness(psychologists)


  A mental or emotional state of well-being which can be defined by, among others, positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy
• Happiness (according to behaviorists)


  A cocktail of emotions we experience when we do something good or positive
• Happiness (according to neurologists)


  The experience of a flood of hormones released in the brain as a reward for behavior that prolongs survival
• The Philippines is ranked 61st in the world based on factors such as GDP per capita, social protection, health and life expectancy, freedom of choice, generosity, and corruption perception
• Hedonic view of well-being


  Happiness is the polar opposite of suffering; the presence of happiness indicates the absence of pain
• Eudaimonia


  A term that combines the Greek words for "good" and "spirit" to describe the ideology of happiness as the pursuit of becoming a better person
• Eudaimonia (according to Aristotle)


  The highpoint of happiness that can be attained by humans
• Human flourishing


  Likening humans to flowers achieving their full blooms
• As time changes, elements that comprise human flourishing changed
• Early people relied on simple machines then they developed more sophisticated machines to aid them in their endeavors that eventually lead to space explorations, medicine innovations, and life after death
• Every discovery, innovation, and success contribute to our pool of human knowledge
• Human's perpetual needs to locate himself in the world by finding proofs to trace evolution
• Technology is a human activity we excel in as a result of achieving science
• The end goals of both S&T and human flourishing: Good is inherently related to the truth
• Verification theory


  A discipline is science if it can be confirmed or interpreted in the event of an alternative hypothesis being accepted
• Verification theory


  Takes into account those results which are measurable and experiments which are repeatable
• Verification theory has shortcomings as it can dismiss budding theories that lack empirical results, causing slower innovation and punishing resourcefulness of newer, novel thoughts
• Verification theory fails to weed out bogus arguments that explain things coincidentally, like astrology
• Falsification theory


  As long as an ideology is not proven to be false and can best explain a phenomenon over alternative theories, we should accept the said ideology
• Falsification theory allowed the emergence of theories otherwise rejected by the verification theory and encourages research in order to determine which among the theories can stand the test of falsification
• Even though theoretically, falsification method is more accepted, scientists are still not convinced that it should be regarded as what makes a discipline scientific
• People who do not understand science are won over when the discipline is able to produce results
• Science is not entirely foolproof