LESSON 7 Flashcards
WHO GAVE A DEFINITIVE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE THEORETICAL AND
PRACTICAL SCIENCES
ARISTOTLE
ARISTOTLE BELIEVED THAT THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE OF HUMAN’S LIFE TO ACHIEVE IS
EUDAIMONIA.
PUTS EVERYTHING BACK TO THE GROUND
IN CLAIMING THAT THIS WORLD IT ALL THERE IS TO IT AND THAT THIS WORLD IS THE ONLY REALITY WE CAN
ALL ACCESS.
aristotle
CHANGE IS SO PERPLEXING THAT IT CAN ONLY MAKE
SENSE IF THERE ARE TWO REALITIES
PLATO
TWO REALITIES:
WORLD OF FORMS AND
WORLD OF MATTER.
THINGS ARE CHANGING AND IMPERMANENT.
WORLD OF MATTER,
THE ENTITIES ARE ONLY COPIES OF THE IDEAL AND THE MODELS, AND THE FEES
ARE THE ONLY REAL ENTITIES
WORLD OF FORMS,
HE DECLARED THE GREATEST HAPPINESS PRINCIPLE.
JOHN STUART MILL
GREATEST HAPPINESS PRINCIPLE.
“AN ACTION IS RIGHT AS FAR AS IT ADMIRES THE ATTAINMENT OF HAPPINESS FOR THE GREATEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE.
THEY LED A SCHOOL WHOSE PRIMARY BELIEF
IS THAT THE WORLD IS MADE UP OF AND IS CONTROLLED BY THE TINY INDIVISIBLE UNITS IN THE WORLD
DEMOCRITUS AND LEUCIPPUS
ACCORDING TO???
THE WORLD, INCLUDING HUMAN BEINGS, IS MADE UP OF MATTER.
DEMOCRITUS AND HIS DISCIPLES
TINY INDIVISIBLE UNITS IN THE WORLD
AMOS OR SEEDS.
SEE THE END GOAL OF LIFE IN ACQUIRING
PLEASURE.
FOR THEM, LIFE IS ABOUT OBTAINING AND INDULGING IN PLEASURE BECAUSE LIFE IS LIMITED
HEDONISM
ALWAYS BEEN THE PRIORITY OF
HEDONISTS.
PLEASURE
THE MANTRA OF THIS SCHOOL ( HEDONISM) OF THOUGHT IS THE FAMOUS,
“EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY FOR TOMORROW WE DIE.” LED BY
EPICURUS.
ESPUMED THE IDEA THAT TO GENERATE
HAPPINESS, ONE MUST LEARN TO DISTANCE ONESELF AND BE APATHETIC.
STOICISM OR STOICS
MEANS TO BE INDIFFERENT.
APATHEIA,
FOR THE STOICS,
HAPPINESS CAN ONLY BE ATTAIN BY
A CAREFUL PRACTICE OF
APATHY.
SOME THINGS ARE NOT WITHIN OUR CONTROL. THE SOONER WE
REALIZE THIS, THE HAPPIER WE CAN BECOME.
STOICISM
MOST PEOPLE FIND THE MEANING OF THEIR LIVES USING GOD AS A FULCRUM OF
THEIR EXISTENCE.
THEISM
THE ULTIMATE BASIS OF HAPPINESS FOR THEISTS IS ???
THE COMMUNION WITH GOD.
AT ANOTHER SCHOOL OF THOUGHT ESPOUSES THE FREEDOM OF MAN TO CARVE HIS OWN
DESTINY AND TO LEGELATE HIS OWN LAWS, FREE FROM THE SHACKLES OF GOD THAT MONITORS AND
CONTROLS.
HUMANISM
HUMANISM HAPPINESS?
MAN IS LITERALLY THE CAPTAIN OF HIS OWN SHIP.
