AC 1 Flashcards
This is the freedom of man to carve his destiny and to legislate his laws, free from the shakier of a God that monitors and controls.
Man is the captain of his ship, and they see themselves not merely as stewards of the creation but as individuals who
control themselves and the world outside them.
Humanism
-Find the meaning of their lives using God as a fulcrum
of their existence.
-They believe in a supernatural reality called ‘heaven’.
-The ultimate basis of happiness for theist is the communion with God.
Theism
-The stoics espoused the idea that to generate happiness,
one must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic.
-Apatheia, precisely means to be indifferent.
-Happiness can be only attained by a careful practice of
apathy.
-Adopt the fact that some things are not within our control.
The happiness we can become.
Stoicism
“Eat, drink, and, be merry for tomorrow we die.”
EPICURUS
-See the end goal of life in acquiring pleasure.
-Pleasure has always been the priority of hedonists.
-Life is about obtaining and indulging in pleasure because
life is limited.
Hedonism
They 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.
Democritus and Leucippus
The first materialists were the
atomists in Ancient Greece.
-The first materialists were the atomists in Ancient Greece.
-Democritus and Leucippus led a school whose primary belief is that the world
-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.
-Democritus and his disciples the world, including human beings, is made up of matter.
-Atomos simply come together randomly to form the things in the world.
-Matter is what makes us attain happiness.
-We see this at work with most people clinging to material wealth as the primary source of the meaning of their existence.
MATERIALISM
Cultivated with habit and discipline as it is not a
one-time deed, but a constant and consistent series of
actions.
VIRTUE
Virtue, then, being of two kinds, intellectual and
moral, intellectual virtue in the main owes its birth
and growth to teaching ( for which reason it
requires experience and time) while moral virtue
comes about as a result of habit.
-Virtue is the excellence of character that empowers one
to do and be good.
-Virtue is cultivated with habit and discipline as it is not a
one-time deed, but a constant and consistent series of
actions.
NICOMACHEAN ETHICS 2:1
It is the activities that express virtue that control
happiness, and the contrary activities that control its
contrary.
NICOMACHEAN ETHICS 1:10
Now such a thing as happiness above all else is held to be;
for this, we choose always for itself and never for the sake of
something else, but honor, pleasure, reason, and every
virtue we choose indeed for themselves, but we choose
them also for the sake of happiness, judging that by means
of them, we shall be happy. Happiness, on the other hand,
no one chooses for anything other than itself.
-Happiness defines a good life.
-It comes from living a life of virtue, a life of
excellence, manifested from the personal to the
global scale.
NICOMACHEAN ETHICS 1:4
Both the many and the cultivated call it
happiness, and suppose that living well and doing well
are the same as being happy.
Eudaimonia – “living well and doing well”
eu -“good” + Daimon-“spirit” t= he good life, which is marked
by happiness and excellence
NICOMACHEAN ETHICS 1:4
All human activities aim at some good. Every art and
human inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is
thought to aim at some good; and for this reason, the good
has been rightly declared as that at which all things aim.
NICOMACHEAN ETHICS 2:2
ancient Greek philosopher whose work
spans from natural philosophy to logic and political theory,
attempted to explain what the good life is.
ARISTOTLE
Aristotle’s best-known work on ethics: is the science of the
good for human life, that which is the goal or end at which all
our actions aim. It consists of ten sections, referred to as
books, and is closely related to Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics.
The work is essential for the interpretation of Aristotelian
ethics.
NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
- One lets nature reveal itself to him/her without forcing it.
MEDITATIVE THINKING
One orders and puts a system to nature to be
understood better and controlled.
CALCULATIVE THINKING
skills, art, or craft.
TECHNE
bringing forth. For Aristotle, it mean making or producing something for a purpose. It is sometimes used to refer to poetry and composition.
POIESIS
-unhiddeness or disclosure
ALETHEIA
-In his essay “The Questions of Technology” he urges us to
question technology and see beyond people’s common
understanding.
-Technology is a means to an end.
-Technology is a human activity.
-Technology itself is a contrivance – in Latin, an instrumentum.
-urged people to envision technology as a mode of revealing as it shows so much more about the human person and the world.
-put forward the ancient Greek concepts of aletheia, poiesis, and techne.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
-deals with developing students’ understanding and appreciation of scientific ideas and scientific works.
-focuses on the preparation of science teachers, scientists, engineers, and other professionals in various science-related fields
TERTIARY EDUCATION
