Week 9

• The 4 Pillars of the Good life

  1. Health
  2. Wealth
  3. Love
  4. Happiness
• What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

  Confucius
• We should behave to others as we wish others to behave to us.

  Aristotle
• Hurt not others with that which pains thyself.

  Buddhism
• D unto others as you would have them do unto you.

  Christianity
• Correct pursuits may lead to flourishing
• Wrong pursuits may lead to tragic consequences
• The happiness pursuit is not guided by a philosophy of life informed by general principles of meaning, spirituality and virtue
• Dreams are often broken when reality strikes
• The unexamined life is not worth living for

  Socrates
• Good people, good community and world peace= good life

  Holistic Approach
• A form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental aspects and consciousness are results of material interactions.

  Materialism
• The first materialists were the atomists in Ancient Greece
• Democritus and Leucippus led a school whose primary belief is that the world is made up of and is controlled by the tiny invisible units in the world called atomos or seeds.
• Classification of Materialism

  1. Naive materialism

  2. Dialectical materialism

  3. Metaphysical materialism
• Is a school of thought that argues that the pursuit of pleasure and intrinsic goods are the primary or most important goals of human life.

  Hedonism
• A hedonist strives to maximize net pleasure (pleasure minus pain) but when having finally gained that pleasure, happiness remains stationary.
• “Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.”


  Hedonism
• Another school of thought led by Epicurus

  Stoicism
• The stoics espoused the idea that to generate happiness, one must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic
• The belief in the existence of the Supreme Being or Deities

  Theism
• Describes the classical conception of God

  Theism
• The ultimate basis of happiness is the communication with God

  Theism
• Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism

  Monotheism
• A school of thought espouses 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.

  Humanism
• Is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively

  Humanism
• Refers to nontheistic life stance centered on human agency and looking to science rather than revelation from a supernatural source to understand the world.

  Humanism
• Living an authentic life means living with deep acceptance on the facticity of death resulting to a life lived

  Heidegger
• Techne is the root of technology
• Piety is associated with being religious.