Human Flourishing

Question 1

Technology as basically means to an end

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Aristotelianism

Question 2

Technology is the organizing of techniques to meet human demand

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Aristotelianism

Question 3

Suggests that technology is primarily concerned with the product

Answer 3

Aristotelianism

Question 4

Technology will be judge as either good or bad on the value given to the product based on its use and effect to the society

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Aristotelianism

Question 5

Holds that technology is progressive and beneficial in many ways, it is also doubtful in many ways

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Technological Pessimism

Question 6

Technology has become a way of life

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Technological Pessimism

Question 7

What are the pessimistic arguments?

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•Technological progress has a price
•Technological progress creates more problem
•Technological progress creates damaging effects
•Technological progress creates unpredictable devastating effects

Question 8

Who founded the technological pessimism?

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Jacques Ellul

Question 9

Technology supported by technologists, engineers, & ordinary people ( who believes that technology can alleviate all the difficulties & provide solutions )

Answer 9

Technological Optimism

Question 10

Extreme version of technological optimism

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Technocratism

Question 11

Holds that technology as the supreme authority on everything

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Technocratism

Question 12

Existence ot the mode of being of someone or something which is governed by the norm of authenticity.

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Existentialism

Question 13

German philosopher who founded existentialism?

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Martin Heidegger

Question 14

He contributed 2 usual definitions of technology

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Martin Heidegger

Question 15

Two usual definitions of technology

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• means to an end
• human activity

Question 16

What is the correct definition of technology according to Martin Heidegger?

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Insufficient

Question 17

He argued that “technology is by no means technological” and should not be seen as merely neutral.

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Martin Heidegger

Question 18

What are the 4 causes of Aristotle?

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• Material Cause
• Efficient Cause
• Formal Cause
• Final Cause

Question 19

What is something is made of

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Material Cause

Question 20

The process of the person that brings something into being.

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Efficient Cause

Question 21

The form or design of something

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Formal Cause

Question 22

The purpose or goal of something

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Final cause

Question 23

Mental or emotional state of well-being which can be defined by among others, positive or pleasant emotions, ranging from contentment to intense joy.

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Happiness

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Is a cocktail of emotions when we do something good or positive

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Happiness

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Is the experience of a flood of hormones released in the brain as a reward for behavior that prolongs survival.

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Happiness

Question 26

Happiness is the polar opposite of suffering

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Hedonistic View

Question 27

Believe that the purpose of life is to maximize happiness, which minimize misery.

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Hedonistic View

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Happiness as the pursuit of becoming a better person.

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Eudaimonia

Question 29

People of this view do this by challenging in activities that make them spiritually richer people.

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Eudaimonia

Question 30

Human flourishing arises as a result of different components

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Nicomachean Ethics

Question 31

4 components of Nicomachean Ethics

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• Phronesis
• Friendship
• Wealth
• Power

Question 32

What is the expectations when it comes to the humans of today?

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To become “Man of the Worlds”

Question 33

Every discovery, innovation, & success contributes to our pool of human knowledge.

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Science, technology, and human flourishing

Question 34

Humans perpetual need to locate himself in the world by finding proofs to trace evolution.

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Science and technology, and human flourishing

Question 35

According to him, technology is a human activity we excel in as a result of achieving science.

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Martin Heidegger

Question 36

A disciple is science if it can be confirmed or interpreted in the event of an alternative hypothesis being accepted.

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Verification Theory

Question 37

As long as a ideology is not proven to be false and can best explain a phenomenon over alternative theories, we should accept valid ideologies, allowed emergence of theories otherwise rejected by the verification theory.

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Falsification theory