HUMAN FLOURISHING

• Happiness


  A mental or emotional state of well-being which can be defined by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy
• Happiness (Behaviorist view)


  A cocktail of emotions we experience when we do something good or positive
• Happiness (Hedonism)

  The end goal of life is acquiring pleasure, life is about obtaining and indulging in pleasure because life is limited
• Happiness (Neurologist view)


  The experience of a flood of hormones released in the brain as a reward for behavior that prolongs survival
• Happiness (Stoicism)

  To generate happiness, one must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic, happiness can only be attained by a careful practice of apathy
• Happiness (Materialism)


  The world is made up of and is controlled by the tiny indivisible units in the world called atomos or seeds, only material entities matter, it is what makes us attain happiness
• Happiness (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
• Happiness (Theism)


  Most people find the meaning of their lives using God as a fulcrum of their existence, the ultimate basis of happiness for theists is the communion with God
• Human Flourishing


  A state where people experience positive emotions, positive psychological functioning and positive social functioning, most of the time, living within an optimal range of human functioning
• Human Flourishing (Aristotle)


  • Requires a life with other people, is the highest good of human endeavors and that toward which all actions aim, is a property of one's life when considered as a whole, is formally egoistic in that a person's normative reason for choosing particular actions stems from the idea that he must pursue his own good or flourishing, to flourish, a man must pursue goals that are both rational for him individually and also as a human being, living rationally or consciously means living and dealing with the world conceptually
• Eudaimonia


  A property of one's life when considered as a whole
• Four aspects of human nature

  • Physical - requires nourishment, exercise and rest
  • Emotional - we have wants, desire, urges and reactions, we all have emotional need and wants
  • Social being - we must live and function in the society where we belong
  • Rational being - we are creative, expressive knowledge-seeking and able to obey reason
• Principles of Human Flourishing

  • Dignity of the human person - innate personal values or rights which demands respect for all people, regardless of race, social class, wealth etc.
  • Common good - sacrificing self-interest to provide for the basic human needs of everyone makes the whole community flourish
  • Preferential option for the poor - when decisions are made by first considering the poor
  • Subsidiarity - when all those affected by a decision are involved in making it
  • Universal purpose of goods - the Earth's resources serve every person's needs, regardless of who "owns" them
  • Stewardship of creation - duty to care for the Earth as a (God-given) gift is a personal responsibility for the common good
  • Promotion of peace - everyone has the duty to respect and collaborate in personal relationships, and at national and global levels
  • Participation - everyone has the right and the duty to take part in the life of a society (economic, political, cultural, religious)
  • Global solidarity - recognition that we are all interconnected part of one human family
• Human person as both the bearer and beneficiary of science and technology

  Bearer - a person or thing that carries or holds something, Beneficiary - a person who receives benefit from a particular entity
• Humans may unconsciously acquire, consume or destroy what the world has to offer
• Technology as a mode of revealing (Heidegger)


  Technology is not a means to an end or a human activity, but a way of revealing the world, technology reveals the world as raw material, available for production and manipulation, our understanding of the world - our understanding of 'being', of what it means 'to be' - develops through the ages, in our time 'being' has the character of a technological 'framework', from which humans approach the world in a controlling and dominating way
• Humans have evidently flourish when science and technology came and made technologies that would make life easier from the small things to big contributions this advancement have develop through time
• 4 ASPECTS OF HUMAN NATURE 1. Physical - requires nourishment, exercise and rest.

  2. Emotional - we have wants, desire, urges and reactions. We all have emotional need and wants.

  3. Social being-we must live and function in the society where we belong. 4. Rational being - we are creative, expressive knowledge-seeking and able to obey reason.