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  • This lesson discusses on what is eudaimonic life, human flourishing and its relationship with science and technology
  • Happiness according to psychologist
    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 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 to determine which among the theories can stand the test of falsification
  • Even though 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