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• Good life


  In ancient Greece, the need to understand the world and reality was bound to the need to understand the self and good life
• Plato


  • Believed that to understand reality and the external world, one should seek to understand oneself too
• Theoretical science


  Includes logic, biology, physics and metaphysics
• Practical science


  Includes ethics and politics
• Theoretical science aims


  The truth
• Practical science aims


  The good
• Aristotle


  • First philosopher who approached the problem of reality from a scientific point of view
  • First thinker who dabbled into the complex problematization of the end goal of life which is happiness
• Plato's view


  • Things in this world are not real and only copies of the real ones in the world of forms
  • Change is so perplexing that it can only make sense if there are two realities: the world of forms and the world of matter
• Aristotle's view


  • The world is all there is to it and the only reality we can all access to
  • We, along with all other entities in the world, starts as potentialities and move towards actualities
  • Even human beings are potentialities who aspire for their actuality
  • Every human action emanates from a purpose that the person has
• We all want to be happy. No individual resist happiness
• Aristotle's claim


  Happiness is the be all and end all of everything that we do
• John Stuart Mill's Greatest Happiness Principle


  • An action is right as far as it maximize the attainment of happiness for the greatest number of people
  • Individual happiness of each individual should be prioritized and collectively dictates the kind of action that should be endorsed
• Materialism


  • Democritus and Leucippus led a school whose primary belief is that the world is made up of and is controlled by tiny indivisible units in the world
  • In terms of human flourishing, matter is what makes us attain happiness
• Hedonism


  • The end goal of life is in acquiring pleasure
  • Life is about obtaining and indulging in pleasure because life is limited
• Stoicism


  To generate happiness, one must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic (apatheia)
• Theism


  The ultimate goal basis of happiness is the communion with God
• Humanism


  • Espouses the freedom of man to carve his own destiny and legislate his own laws, free from the shackles of a God that monitors and controls
  • Man is literally the captain of his own ship
• Technology


  Came from the Greek words techne and logos which mean art and word respectively. Technology means a discourse on arts.
• The concept of technology was only used to talk about the arts, specifically applied arts, in the seventeenth century.
• Concepts like machine and tools were attached to the word "technology".
• Technology


  • The roles played by technology these days are very crucial not only to a few but also to everyone.
  • Technology brings convenience, pleasure and happiness to people.
  • Almost all activities that humans perform already require the assistance of some kind of technological advancement.
• Technology keeps on progressing due to the changing times and environment, and the ever-progressing mind of mankind.
• It would not be possible for all these technological advancements to exist if it were not for the brilliance, creativeness, and power of the mind.
• Various ethical dilemmas have been identified throughout time involving the use of different technological devices and its effects to humanity.
• Technological devices


  Devices that can be easily found inside the home, the most accessible place to anyone
• These technological devices are some of the most popular and most commonly used type of devices across all age groups
• Technological devices


  • Television sets
  • Mobile phones
  • Computers
• Television sets


  92 percent of urban homes and 70 percent of rural homes in the Philippines own at least one television set
• Television remains to be the ultimate medium for advertisement placements in the Philippines
• The current count of households with television set in the Philippines already reached 15.135 million
• Television


  A product of different experiments by various people
• Born


  August 22, 1860
• Died


  August 24, 1940
• Paul Gottlieb Nipkow


  A German technician and inventor who was successful in his attempt to send images through wires with the aid of a rotating metal disk, which was then called the "electric telescope that had 18 lines of resolution"
• Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton


  An English scientist who, along with Boris Rosing, a Russian scientist, created a new system of television using the cathode ray tube in addition to the mechanical scanner systems namely, mechanical and electronic television
• Boris Rosing


  A Russian scientist who, along with Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, created a new system of television using the cathode ray tube in addition to the mechanical scanner systems namely, mechanical and electronic television
• Mobile phones


  More than half of the Filipino population own at least one mobile phone regardless of type
• In 2010, global research agency Synovate conducted a survey and declared 67 percent product ownership in the country, and it was also claimed that mobile phones are considered a must-have among young Filipinos
• The Ipsos Media Atlas Philippines Nationwide Urban 2011-2012 survey results showed that one in every three Filipinos cannot live without a mobile phone
• Martin Cooper


  A senior engineer at Motorola who made the world's first mobile phone call, calling their rival telecommunications company and properly informing them that he was making a call from a mobile phone