Lesson 3 Flashcards
the need to understand the world and reality was bound with the need to understand the self and the good life
Ancient Greece: Science
is theoretical sciences; good is for practical sciences (good means human flourishing) How is it to have a good life?
Aristotle: truth
: The end goal of life is “happiness”.
Aristotle
Things in this world are not real and are only copies of the real in the world of forms.
Plato
Change as a process and as a constant phenomenon that happens in the world.
Plato
Despite the reality of change, things remain and they retain their ultimate “whatness”.
Plato
World of Matter: things are changing and impermanent
Plato
World of Forms: entities are only copies of the ideals and the models; the forms are the only real entities
Plato
World of Forms: entities are only copies of the ideals and the models; the forms are the only real entities
Plato
This world is all there is to it and that this world is the only reality we can all access.
Aristotle
There is no reality over and above what the senses can perceive.
Aristotle
It is only by observation of the external world that one can truly understand what reality is all about.
Aristotle
Change is inherent in things.
Aristotle
Humans and other entities start as potentialities and move actualities. This movement change. toward entails
Aristotle
Democritus and Leucippus
The world is made up of and is controlled by the tiny indivisible units in the world called atomos or seeds
Matter is what makes us attain happiness (material wealth as the primary source of happiness)
Materialism
Epicurus
The end goal of life is acquiring pleasure; life is limited, obtain and indulge in pleasure
Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die
Hedonism
Epicurus
To generate happiness, one must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic (apatheia, to be indifferent) To be happy, practice apathy; some things are not within our control
Stoicism
The meaning of life: God as the fulcrum of existence
Ultimate happiness: communion with God
Temporary reality and the concept of heaven
Theism
Espouses the freedom of man to carve his own destiny and to legislate his own laws, free from
the shackles of a God that monitors and controls Man is the captain of his own ship
Man is not just a steward of creation; s/he controls him/herself and the world outside him/her
Man and technology: eases the difficulty of life
Humanism
