Lesson 5 Flashcards
Due to technology, lesser women and children die during birth, assuring robust population and strong workforce. Medical care for premature infants allows them to survive and develop normally, while proper maternal care ensures that mothers can fully recover and remain empowered.
MORALITY RATE
side from the reason that people engage less in combat and are less likely to die in treatable diseases now as opposed to then, science is able to prolong lives by enhancing living status and discovering different remedies to most diseases. Distribution of medicines is also made easier and faster.
AVERAGE LIFESPAN
Access to education provided to more individuals generally creates a more informed public that could determine a more just society.
LITERACY RATE
Although not an indicator of an average person’s lifestyle in a certain country, it is often used to determine the value of the country’s goods and services produced within the territory given a certain time period. Higher country income in brought upon by high productivity, often an indicator of presence of technology.
GDP
believed that technology should be used for the betterment of society and to serve human needs
ARISTOTLE
argued that technology has become a dominating force that has turned human beings into mere objects
Martin Heidegger
viewed technology as an autonomous system that is beyond human control
Jacques Ellul
believed that technology is not inherently good or bad, but its impact depends on how it is used
C.S. Lewis
Technology is a means to an end
Instrumental Definition
Technology is a human activity
Anthropological Definition
A German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition of philosophy. Widely acknowledged to be the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century
Martin Heidegger
refers to the act of bringing something out of concealment. By bringing something put of concealment, the truth of that something is revealed.
Way of Revealing that unconceals aletheia or the truth.
Poiesis
translated as unclosedness, unconcealedness, disclosure, or truth
Aletheia
modern technology’s way of Revealing
Enframing
human’s desire to put an order to nature to better understand and control it. Tends to be more commonly utilized, primarily because humans’ desire to control due to their fear of irregularity.
Calculative thinking
humans allow nature to reveal itself to them without the use of force or violence.
Meditative thinking
way of ordering (or framing) nature to better manipulate it. Enframing happens because of how humans desire for security, even it pulls all of nature as a standing reserve and an instrument of technology, to be exploited in the ordering of nature
enframing
believed that technology was not simply a neutral tool or instrument, but rather a powerful force that shapes and controls human life. He argued that technology had become an autonomous, self-perpetuating system that was beyond human control, and that it was gradually taking over all aspects of human existence.
In his book “The Technological Society,” published in 1954,
Jacques Ellul
A British writer and philosopher who lived from 1898 to 1963. He is best known for his works of fiction, including the Chronicles of Narnia series, but he also wrote extensively on a wide range of philosophical and theological topics, including the role of technology in human society.
“The Abolition of Man”
C.S. Lewis
happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being which can be defined by, among others, positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.
In psychology
happiness is a cocktail of emotions we experience when we do something good or positive.
To behaviorists
happiness is the experience of a flood of hormones released in the brain as a reward for behavior that prolongs survival
To neurologists
Friendship
Wealth
Power
Phronesis
HUMAN FLOURISHING
Community-centric
One should sacrifice himself for the sake of humanity
Chinese Confucian system and Japanese Bushido views the whole as greater than their component.
EASTERN CONCEPT
Individual
Aims for Eudaimonia as the ultimate goal
Aristotelian views Human flourishing as an end and as the ultimate good.
WESTERN CONCEPT
