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• Venus figure- it depicts rudimentary carving of a voluptuous woman out of ivory or stone
• Fur clothing and animal skin- are primarily used for comforts against harsh winds
• Religion- remains to be the strongest contender to science arguably due to its the most easily grasped
• Holocene extinction- AKA sixth extinction or more aptly anthropocene extinction
• Holocene extinction- occured from as early as between 100,000 to 200,000 years up to present. It pertains to the ongoing extinction of the several species both flora and fauna-due to human activity
• Earliest case of man made extinction- occured over 12,000 years ago, possibly bought upon by hunting and territorial disputes
• Notable comparisons then and now

  1. Mortality rate
  2. Average lifespan
  3. Literacy rate
  4. Gross domestic product
• Science- is able to prolong lives by enhancing living status and discovering different remedies to most diseases
• Mortality rate- due to technology lesser woman and children die during birth, assuring robust population and strong workforce
• Average lifespan- aside from the reason that people engage in less combat and are less likely to die in treatable diseases now as opposed to
• Literacy rate- access to education provided to more individuals generally creates a more informed public that could determine a more just society
• Gross domestic product- often used to determine the value of the country good and services produced within the territory given a certain period of time
• Martin Heidegger- argued that its essence, or purpose and being are different from each other
• Science and technology- gave us all explanations which worked for us and benefited us
• Aristotle- embarked on a different approach in figuring out reality. He puts everything back to the ground in claiming that this world is all there is to it and that this world is the only reality we can access
• For plato- change is perplexing that it can only make sense if there are two realities

  1. The world of forms
  2. The world of matter
• Plato- recognize change as a processed and as a phenomenon that happens in the world that in fact it is constant
• Plato- also claims that despite the reality of change, things remain and they retain their ultimate ―"whatness" that you remain to be you despite the pimple that now sits atop your nose. Plato is now convinced that reality  is full of these seemingly contrasting manifestations and change and permanence
• Aristotle, for his part, disagreed with his teacher‘s position and forwarded the idea that there is no reality over and above what the senses can perceive

  As such it is only by observation of the external world that one can truly understand what reality is all about
• Aristotle - Change is a process that is inherent in things. We, along with all other entities in the world, start as potentialities and move as actualitie
• In the eighteenth century, John Stuart Mill declared the Greatest Happiness Principle by saying that an action is right as far as it maximizes the attainment of happiness for the greatest number of people
• John Stuart Mill - said that individual of each individual should be prioritized and collectively dictates the kind of action that should be endorsed.
• The first materialist - was the atomists of 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 indivisible units in the world called atomos or seeds.
• For Democritus and his disciples, the world, including human beings is made up of matter.
• In terms of human flourishing, matter is what makes us attain happiness
• The Hedonist - sees the end goal of life in acquiring pleasure. - Pleasure has always been the priority
• Hedonist - For them life is about obtaining and indulging in pleasure because life is limited. The mantra of this school of thought is the famous, “Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.”
• Stoics - espoused the idea that to generate happiness, one must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic.
• The original term apatheia means to be indifferent.
• Stoicism - a school of thought that flourished in Greek and Roman antiquity. - It was one of the loftiest and most sublime philosophies in the record of Western civilization.
• The ultimate basis of Theist is the communion of God
• Theism - derives from the Greek theos or theoi meaning "god" or "gods". - first used by Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688
• Theism is broadly defined as the belief in the existence of a supreme being or deities
• For humanists, man is the captain of his own ship, humanists see themselves not merely as stewards of creation but as an individual who is in control of themselves and the world outside them
• Humanism - It espouses the freedom of man to carve his own destiny and to legislate his own laws free from the shackles of God that monitors and controls.
• technology” - from the Greek words techne and logos which means art and word, respectively. Taking the two words together, technology means a discourse on arts (Buchanan, 2010).
• Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, a German student, in the late 1880s was successful in his attempt to send images through wires with aid of a rotating metal disk
• 1907, two inventors Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton who was an English scientist and Boris Rosing who was a Russian scientist, created a new system of television by using the cathode ray tube in addition to the mechanical scanner system
• April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola made the world‘s first mobile phone call. He called their rival telecommunications company and properly informed them that he was making the call from a mobile phone.