Human Flourishing In Terms Of Science And Technology Flashcards
A state of being in which people experience pleasant emotions, positive psychological functioning, and positive social functioning, and spend the majority of their time in the range of human functioning that is considered to be optimum
Flourishing
The scale of assessing flourishing is founded on the concept that flourishing is experienced in six domains
Measuring Flourishing
Described as an attempt to attain self-actualization and fulfillment within the setting of each individual’s freedom to pursue such efforts on his or her own terms
Human Flourishing
Deals with both the inner and outer life of a person (holistic)
Chinese Confucian
Emphasize how one should conduct one’s self to live well among others (fragmentary)
Artistotelian View
Wisdom relevant to practical action
Phronesis
The mutual admiration between two human beings
Friendship
Constitutes the economic dimension
Wealth
Cognitive power of judgment
Power
Found means for people to live more comfortably, explore more places, develop more products, and make more minet
Technology
Today’s humans are supposed to be:
“man of the world”
The new trend
Coordination
Human person as both the “ “ and “ “ of science and technology
Bearer and beneficiary
A person or thing that carries or holds something
Bearer
A person who derives advantage from something
Beneficiary
Must be treated as part of human life that needs reflective and meditative thinking
Science and Technology
Taking into consideration of the bigger picture and understanding all of its consequences
Reflective Thinking
Thinks the truth of being, that belongs to being and listens to it
Meditative Thinking
Provides an objective, standardized approach to conducting experiments and, in doing so, improves their results
Aims to support or to contradict a theory
Scientific Method
Aka “ Verification Principle”
The doctrine that proposition is only cognitively meaningful if it can be definitively and conclusively determined to be either true or false
Verificationism
As long as an ideology is not proven to be false and can best explain a phenomenon over alternative theories we should accept the said ideology
Falsificationism
