Human Flourishing Flashcards
Greek word : eu, means?
Good
Greek word : daemon, means?
Spirit
defined as an endeavor to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals. This also means access to the pleasant life, the engaged or good life and the meaningful life
Human flourishing
stated that human flourishing requires the
development of attributes and social and personal levels that exhibit character strengths and virtues
that are commonly agreed across different cultures
(Seligman, Steen, Park and Peterson, 2005)
According to him, there is an end of all the actions that we perform which we desire for itself. Flourishing is the greatest good of human endeavors and that toward which all actions aim. The good is what is good for purposeful and goal-directed entities.
Aristotle
He presented the various popular conceptions of
the best life for human beings;
(1) a philosophical life,
(2).life of pleasure and
(3) a life of political activity
Aristotle
- means good spirit is a property of one’s life when considered as a whole.
- It 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. - It also implies a divine state of being that humanity is able to strive toward and possibly reach
Eudamonia
- is “doing well” and” living well”.
- It is a pleasant state of mind.
Happiness
Basahin mo :)
Verbally there is a very general agreement; for both the general run of men and people of superior
refinement say that is ( Eudaimonia), and identify living well and faring well with being happy; but with regard to what ( Eudaimonia) is they differ, and the many do not give the same account as the wise…
(Nicomachean Ethics 1095a17)
- identifies that the eudaimon life is the life of pleasure and maintains that life of pleasure coincides with the life of virtue.
- He understands Eudaimonia as a more or less continuous experience of pleasure and, also freedom from pain and distress.
- Virtue is only instrumentally related to happiness
Happiness = Pleassure
Epicurus
- He believed that virtues such as self-control, justice, courage, wisdom, piety, and related qualities of mind and soul are absolutely crucial if a person is to lead a good and happy life.
- Virtues guarantee a happy life Eudaimonia
- Virtues like self-control, justice, courage, and wisdom are crucial for a good, happy life
- “The unexamined life is not worth living”
- Virtues guarantee a happy life − Eudaimonia
- The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less
Socrates
Eudaimonia depends on virtue (arête) which is depicted as the most crucial and the dominant constituent of eudaimonia.
Plato
- founder of Pyrrhonism, a school of philosophical skepticism that places the
- attainment of ataraxia (a state of equanimity) as a way to achieve Eudaimonia.
- Pyrrhonist practice is for the purpose of achieving epoch.
- Equanimity - Mental calmness, composure and evenness of temper, especially in a difficult situation
Pyrrho
Terminologies
Dasein” - which literally means “being there” focuses on the “mode of existence”
Eudemonia - is consists of Greek words “eu” which means “good” and “daemon” which means “spirit”
Terminologies:
Dasein” which literally means ?
“being there” focuses on the “mode of existence”
