Human Flourishinh Flashcards
uses religious and moral principles to the question of human flourishing in an essay entitled “Buddhist Economics”
E.F Schumacher
one of the requirements of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path
Right Livelihood
spiritual health and material well being are?
not enemies. allies
there exists a ________________ in tradional western economics, when it is pre occupied with a type of self-righteousness, which puts puts premium on goods over people or utility over creativity
misunderstanding
Schumacher further explains that some scientists, _______ to be exact, think that their science is _______, they suffer from a certain blindness when they treat their field as a positive science and not as ___________ with certain set of assumptions
economists, absolute, social science
is human flourishing an objective reality based on an objective criteria?
No, it is more complicated than mere physical and mechanical movements
_____________ we reduce ourselves to robots, machines and objects, this sensibility stems the negative thinking toward _____, and the _______________
human flourishing mechanical
work
difficulty of experiencing satisfying work
if all we do is focused on the aquisition of ____ and ______, we see ourselves pushing too much and exerting unnecessary effort to be someone we are not
wealth, becoming rich
it is undeniable, say Schumacher, that ________ is human labor
source of wealth
modern economies have understood labor from two opposing perspectives.
perspective of employer, perspective of workforce
understood as cost in the process, removed by automation
perspective of employer
perspective of workforce
disutility
by disutility, Schumacher refers to ________ as a letting go of leisure and comfort
labor
are understood as kind of compensation for the sacrifices made
wages
envision “an output without employees”
employers
envisions “income without payment”
workforce
if work is treated as something to escape and run away from, then every attempt to ______ workload is preferable. the more we are able to make processes that decrease labor, the better. This explains why companies tend to _____. but because it is expensive, companies engage in the process of dividing ________
reduce, automate, labor
___________ is also the introduction to specialization, splitting of processes into smaller parts
- produce efficiency of labor
-faster and accountability
- understood as progress
- misunderstood as human flourishing
labor
Schumacher challenges this understanding of human flourishing using __________
Buddhist point of view
in Buddhist perspective, _______ is understood as : to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties, to enable him to overcome his ego-centeredness by joining with other people in a common tasks, and bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence
labor
if we understand work _________, Schumacher argues that it is _______ because it focuses on goods rather than people; this lacks compassion, inhumane
negatively, criminal
two types of automation/mechanization
enhances the skill and power of humanity, reduces human work to a mechanical slave
if our understanding of human flourishing simply constitutes automation/ mechanization, then we become ________
victims of slaves, not the vision of human flourishing we intend to push forward
Schumacher further distinguishes Buddhist economics with ________, this distinction is based on the perspective that civilization is not about “duplication of wants and desires as it is “the purification of _________”
economics of modern materialism, human character