Chapter 1: Human Flourishing and Science Technology

Question 1

It comes from the greek word eu and daimon

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Eudaimonia

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eu meaning?

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well

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daimon meaning?

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spirit

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refers to pursuing the right actions that leads to one’s “well-being”

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Eudaimonism

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emphasize the virtues of mind and character.

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Virtue ethics

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meaning “excellence of any kind that is necessary in order for one individual to flourish and attain the good life.”

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arete

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is an objective state that characterizes the well-lived life as an individual’s ideal emotional state.

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Eudaimonia

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It is thought of as the highest human good that is good-in-itself.

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Eudaimonia

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pleasure is the most valuable pursuit of mankind and everything that one does is to gain pleasure.

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Hedonism

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a greek philosopher who was convinced that life’s objective is to experience maximum pleasure.

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Aristippus

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The eudaimonic well-being.

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Aristotle

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He assumed that happiness is a vague idea, emphasizing that not all desires are worth pursuing.

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Aristotle

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“Pleasure for pleasure’s sake”

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Epicurus

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The term eudaimonia is explained by Aristotle in his _____________ ______________ that dates back to the 4th century BC.

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Nicomachean Ethics

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Believed that virtue is a sort of knowledge (the knowledge of good and evil) that is needed to achieve the ultimate good all humans desire.

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Socrates

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He observed that even bad people are capable of feeling guilty when they do something wrong.

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Plato

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He claimed that the mind must govern the spirit, emotions, and physical desires to attain eudaimonia.

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Plato

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He departed from the Socratic view that happiness is based on leading a life of virtue.

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Aristotle

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He stated that such happiness is conditional for it is dependent on other conditions.

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Aristotle

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In his point of view, the individual’s worldly conditions are important in his/her pursuit of eudaimonia.

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Aristotle

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Aristotle stated that eudaimonia is not an instrumental good but rather?

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The ultimate good for it is intrinsically good or good in its own sake.

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Aristotle emphasized that ______________ is a mutual admiration between persons, is contributing factor in attaining eudaimonia.

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Friendship

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perceived virtue based on morality. they believed that eudaimonia is the highest good and is achieved by living harmony with nature.

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Stoics

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They proposed that eudaimonia or human flourishing requires one to have knowledge of God .

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St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Thomas Aquinas

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Stressed that happiness is pursued through prudence.

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John Locke

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Means peace, harmony, and completeness.

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Shalom

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It is a sense of wholeness involving an individual’s relationship with God and His creations.

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Shalom

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It involves trusting the word and plan of God that he has already set from the beginning of creation.

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Shalom

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According to this article, a more suitable definition of the word shalom is the webbing together of God, humans, and all creation in justice, fulfillment, and delight.

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“Educating for Shalom”

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A rich state of affairs that inspires wonder and joy for every creature on Earth reigned over by the Creator and Savior.

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Shalom

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These are the eight blessings preached by Jesus to his followers in Matthew 5:1-12.

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Beatitudes

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(plural makarioi) meaning blessed or happy

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Makarios

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Comes from the latin beatus meaning “blissful”, “happy”, “fortunate”, or ‘flourishing”.

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Beatitude

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from makarios refers to the state of living a life of happiness without struggles and difficulties.

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Makar

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is commonly used as a synonym for eudaimonia because both connote happiness, peace of mind, joy, and good life.

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Makarios

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Highlighted in his discussion of the Beatitudes that “the entire philosophy of the ‘good life’ and the late-modern theory of the ‘happiness’ are at work when Jesus says, “Blessed are..”.

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Scot Mcknight

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a psychology professor, studied different models and theories of happiness in different subfields of psychology.

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Carol Ryff

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Six components of well-being:

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• Personal growth
• Self acceptance
• Autonomy
• Environmental mastery
• Positive relationships
• Purpose in life

Question 39

A professor at the King’s college in New York, echoed Ryff’s idea in his article “The New Legalism” where he wrote: An emphasis on human flourishing, ours and others’, becomes important because it is characterized by a holistic concern for the spiritual, moral, physical economic, material, political, psychological, and social context necessary for human beings to live according to their design.

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Anthony Bradley

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According to him, there would be “an avalanche of technological changes that could reshape the very essence of humanity and very aspect of life on our planet.”

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Gerd Leonhard

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These scientists published an open later in the Independent in May 2014 stating that the emergence of artificial intelligence poses a great danger to humanity.

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Stephen Hawking, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark, Frank Wilczek