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• Human flourishing


  Being "good spirited", a term by Greek philosopher Aristotle to describe the pinnacle of happiness that is attained by humans
• Components of human flourishing

  • Phronesis (practical wisdom)
  • Friendship
  • Wealth
  • Power
• Acquiring these qualities will surely bring the seekers happiness, which in effect allows them to partake in the greater notion of what we call the "good"
• Science, technology and human flourishing

  Every discovery, innovation, and success contributes to our pool of human knowledge. Human flourishing is deeply intertwined with goal setting relevant to science and technology.
• Technology is a human activity that we excel in as a result of achieving science.
• The end goals of both science and technology, and human flourishing

  The good is inherently related to the truth.
• Scientific method

  1. Observe

  2. Determine the problem

  3. Formulate hypothesis

  4. Reject the null hypothesis

  5. Conduct experiment

  6. Gather and analyze

  7. Formulate conclusion and provide recommendation
• Verification theory


  A discipline is science if it can be confirmed or interpreted in the event of an alternative hypothesis being accepted
• The Vienna Circle was a group of scholars who believed that only those which can be observed should be regarded as meaningful and reject those which cannot be directly accessed as meaningless.
• 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.
• A true eudaimonia recognizes that flourishing requires one to excel in various dimensions, such as linguistic, kinetic, artistic, and socio-civic. Thus, he understands that he should not focus on one aspect alone.
• SCIENCE AS A SOCIAL ENDEAVOR it refers to the idea that scientific research and inquiry are influenced by social and cultural factors,
• SCIENCE AS EDUCATION

    there is no such thing as a singular scientific method
• Aristotle’s eudaimonic person is required to be knowledgeable about science, among other things of equal importance, they are supposed to possess intellectual virtues that will enable them to determine the truth from falsehood or good reasoning from poor reasoning.
• SCIENCE AND RESULTS

    Science is a systematic and logical approach to discovering knowledge about the natural world