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Human Flourishing Flashcards

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is the pursuit of self-actualization and fullfilment within a community

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Human Flourishing

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involves achieving a pleasant, engaged, and meaningful life

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Human Flourishing

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Flourishing requires developing personal and social attributes that exhibit character strengths and virtues across cultures

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Human Flourishing

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He believed all actions aim towards a final end, which is flourishing (Eudaimonia)

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Aristotle

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He considered flourishing the ultimate good, desirable for its own sake.

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Aristotle

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He proposed three popular conceptions of the best life: The philosophical life, the life of pleasure, the life of political activity

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Aristotle

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  • meaning ‘‘good spirit’’, refers to living well and doing well
  • Implies a state humanity can strive toward and achieve
  • It’s a property of one’s life as a whole and implies striving towards a divine state of being
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Eudaimonia

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Happiness: ‘‘Doing well’’ and ‘‘living well’’.
- Implies a state humanity can strive toward and achieve
- While widely agreed upon, the specific meaning of eudaimonia differed among philosophers

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Aristotle

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  • He equates Eudaimonia with pleasure
  • Identified eudaimonia with a life of pleasure, free from pain and distress
  • Believed virtue was instrumental, but not central in achieving happiness
  • Happiness is about a continuous experience of pleasure and freedom from pain
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Epicurus

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He emphasizes virtue like self-control, justice, courage, wisdom, piety and related qualities of mind and soul are absolutely crucial.

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Socrates

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He believed that virtues guarantee a happy life

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Socrates

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is crucial to achieving Eudaimonia

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Virtue

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For him, cirtue (arete) is the most essential element of Eudaimonia

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Plato

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is not just a part of flourishing but the dominant constituent

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Virtue

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founder of Pyrrhonism, a school of skeptcism

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Pyrrho

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Advocated for ________ (state of equanimity) as the key to Eudaimonia

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ataraxia

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Modern Interpretations emphasize the balance between:
1. _____ well-being (mental, physical, emotional)
2. _________ well-being (social and collective flourishing)

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  • Personal well-being
  • Community well-being
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play a pivotal role in shaping human flourishing by improving various aspects of life. However, they also present challenges that can hinder well-being

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Science and Technology

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which literally means “being there” focuses on the “mode of existence”

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Dasein

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is consists of Greek words “eu” which means “good” and “daemon” which means “spirit’’

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Eudaimonia

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