GE 4 MIDTERM EXAM

• Eudaimonia- literally “good spirited,” a term coined by Aristotle to describe the pinnacle of happiness that is attainable by humans
• The end goals of both science and technology and human flourishing are related
• Western civilization- tends to be more focused on the individual; based on an individual’s values rather than his belief that the state is greater than him
• The east- is more community-centric;community takes the highest regard thatthe individual should sacrifice himself forthe sake of the society.
• Verification Theory- The idea proposes that a discipline is science if it can be confirmed or interpreted in the event of an alternative hypothesis being accepted.
• Verification Theory- Several budding theories that lack empirical results might be shot down prematurely, causing slower innovation and punishing ingenuity of newer, novel thoughts.
• Verification Theory- This theory completely fails to weed out bogus arguments that explain things coincidentally
• Falsification Theory- Karl Popper is the known proponent of this view.
• Falsification Theory- Asserts that as long as an ideology is not proven to be false and can best explain a phenomenon over alternative theories
• eudaimonia- recognizes that flourishing requires one to excel in various dimensions, such as linguistic, kinetic, artistic, and socio civic
• Human flourishing- is defined as being“good spirited” in the classical Aristotelian notion.
• Before Common Era Homo erectus have been using fire to cook, all the while without realizing the laws of friction and heat
• Tools from stone and flints marked the era of the Stone Age, during the advent of our very own Homo sapiens
• before common era Fur clothing and animal skin are primarily used for comfort against harsh winds. They begin to cover themselves up out of necessity.
• Human Condition in the Common Era human were quick to find ways to drive off other mega faunas threatening a prospective hunting spot
• Human Condition in the Common Era The ongoing extinction of several species—both flora and fauna—due to human activity
• The Human Condition in the Common Era They began to hunt, farm, and produce things with prospect of profit.
• Human Condition in the Common Era When they could not sell products, they used their skills and got compensated for it—bringing forth a specialized group of artisans
• artisans- skilled worker
• Martin Heidegger- argued that its essence, or purpose, and being are different from each other.
• Plato and Aristotle -embarked on a different approach in figuring out reality
• Plato- thought that things in this world are not real and are only copies of the real in the world of forms
• two realities: the world of forms and the world of matter:
• world of matter- things arec hanging and impermanent;
• world of forms- the entities are only copies of the ideal and the models, and the forms are the only real entities.
• Every action that emanates from ahuman person is a function of thepurpose (telos) that the person has.
• atomists- the first materialis in ancient greece
• Democritus and Leucippus- belief is that the world is made up of and is controlled by the tiny indivisible units in the world called atomos or seeds.
• • atomos- tiny indivisible units
• The hedonists- for their part, see theend goal of life in acquiring pleasure
• The mantra of this school of thought is the famous, “Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.
• Stoicism- The idea that to generate happiness,one must learn to distance oneself andbe apathetic.
• Theism- The ultimate basis of happiness for theists is the communion with God.
• Humanism- The freedom of man to carve his own destiny and to legislate his own laws, free from the shackles of a God that monitors and controls
• Paul Gottlieb Nipkow- invention was called the• "electric telescope
• • Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton and Boris Rosing

  -gave rise to two types of television systems, namely, mechanical and electronic television
• April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, made the world’s first mobile phone call
• Motorola DynaTAC 8000X - made their first commercial mobilephone available to the public
• Charles Babbage- who designed the Analytical Enginewhich was used as the basic framework of thecomputers even until the present time
• Osborne 1-The first true portable computer was released in April 1981