Lesson 8 Flashcards
claims that happiness is the be all and end all of everything that we do. We may not realize it but the end goal of everything that we do is happiness.
Aristotle
In the 18th century, John Stuart mill, declared the greatest happiness principle by saying that an action is right as far as it maximizes the attainment of happiness for the greatest number of people.
Happiness as the Goal of a Good Life
declared the greatest happiness principle by saying that an action is right as far as it maximizes the attainment of happiness
John Stuart mill
The first materials are the atomists in Ancient Greece. Democritus and Leucippus 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 called atomos or seed.
Materialism
see the end goal of life in acquiring pleasure. Pleasure has always been the priority of hedonists.
Hedonism
the idea that to generate to happiness, one must learn to distance oneself and apathetic. Adopt the fact that some things are not within our control.
Stoicism
Many people find the meaning of their lives using God as fulcrum of their existence. The Philippines as a Predominantly Catholic country is witness to how people base their life goals on beliefs that hinged on some form of supernatural reality called heaven.
Theism
where it 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.
Humanism