Midterms 2

Question 1

What is eudaimonia?

Answer 1

Came from the Greek word eu meaning “good” and daimon meaning “spirit”

Question 2

Flourishing life filled with meaningful endeavors that empower the human person to be the best version of himself/herself

Answer 2

Eudimonia

Question 3

All human activities aim at some good.

Answer 3

Nicomachean ethics 2:2

Question 4

Behavior showing high moral standards
Paragons of virtue
The simple virtue and integrity of peasant life

Answer 4

Virtues

Question 5

The virtues:

Answer 5

Intellectual virtue
Moral virtue

Question 6

Theoretical wisdom (thinking and truth)
Practical wisdom understanding
Experience and time are necessary for the development of intellectual virtue

Answer 6

Intellectual virtue

Question 7

Controlled by practical wisdom (ability to make right judgment)
Owed its development to how one nurtured it as habit
Can be learned

Answer 7

Moral virtue

Question 8

T or F
Happiness as the ultimate purpose of human existence
Happiness is a final end or goal that encompasses the totality of one’s life

Answer 8

tre

Question 9

It is not something that can be gained or lost in a few hours, like pleasurable sensations

Answer 9

Happiness as the ultimate purpose of human existence

Question 10

It is more like the ultimate value of your life as lived up to this moment, measuring how well you have lived up to your full potential as a human being.

Answer 10

Happiness as the ultimate purpose of human existence

Question 11

Science and Technology and Good Life

Answer 11

S&T is also the movement towards a good life.
S&T are one of the highest expressions of human faculties.
S&T allows us to thrive and flourish if we desire it.
S&T may corrupt a person
S&T with virtue can help an individual to be out of danger.

Question 12

Who?
Developing virtues is the way to achieve a rich and satisfying life.
Virtues make us good persons—and help us live a good life.
Eudaimonia

Answer 12

Aristotle

Question 13

Who?
One of the greatest thinkers in the history of western science and philosophy, making contributions to logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics, politics, agriculture, medicine, dance, and theater.
First to classify of human knowledge into distinct disciplines such as mathematics, biology, and ethics

Answer 13

Aristotle

Question 14

Founder of the Lyceum, the first scientific institute, based in Athens, Greece
One of the strongest advocates of a libreal arts education, which stresses the education of the whole person, including one’s moral character, rather than merely learning a set of skills.

Answer 14

Aristotle

Question 15

The good for humans was to reason well
The task of reason was to teach humans how to act virtuously, and the exercise of faculties in accordance with virtue.

Answer 15

Aristotle

Question 16

Who?
“Happiness depends on ourselves”
Central purpose of human life and a goal in itself
Depends on the cultivation of virtue

Answer 16

aristotle

Question 17

Who?
A genuinely happy life required the fulfillment of a broad range of conditions, including physical as well as mental well-being.
The aim of art is to represent not the actual appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Answer 17

Aristotle

Question 18

Who?
All human activities aim at some good.

Answer 18

Aristotle

Question 19

Who?
There is no known rule as to the number of instances that a theory is rejected or falsified in order for it to be set aside.

Answer 19

Karl Popper

Question 20

Who?
There is no assurance that observable event or “evidences” are indeed manifestations of a certain concept or “theories”

Answer 20

Karl Popper

Question 21

Collective human flourishing is the attainment of the “highest power and splendor of the human type’’ which he claims is also the end goal of mankind as a whole.

Answer 21

Friedrich Nietzsche

Question 22

Philosophers have tried for centuries to pin down a hard, solid grounding for knowledge, looking for absolute for knowledge, looking for absolute certainties.

Answer 22

Friedrich Nietzsche

Question 23

Who?
was cynical about this– he suggested we largely accept and believe what is valuable to us, our society, our species.

Answer 23

Friedrich Nietzsche

Question 24

Who?
Value comes before truth, or rather ‘truth’ is only valued if it is useful, and what is useful will be taken as “truth”

Answer 24

Friedrich Nietzsche

Question 25

Who?
Not relativism but perspectivism–not all perspectives are of equal value.

Answer 25

Friedrich Nietzsche

Question 25

Who?
The pursuit of truth for truth’s sake may lead us into nihilism–since the ultimate nature of reality is irrational, unknowable and meaningless without subjective interpretation.

Answer 25

Friedrich Nietzsche

Question 26

an existentialist
To him, existence means us being thrown into this world, we have to cope up with everything we meet and experience. He noticed, based on his observation, three diseases of modern humans

Answer 26

Martin Heidegger

Question 27

It could either be an instrument(means to an end) or a process (humana activity)
Serves as a means to an end

Answer 27

Martin Heidegger

Question 28

Provides convenience, knowledge and ensure good quality of life
Martin Heidegger stated technology is a way of revealing

Answer 28

Martin Heidegger

Question 29

Technology is a human activity we excel in as a result of achieving science.
We no longer need to work with the rhythms of nature because we have learned to control it.

Answer 29

Martin Heidegger

Question 30

Modern technology is characterized as challenging forth.
We forgot to be FREE and Live for Ourselves.

Answer 30

Martin Heidegger

Question 31

Martin Heidegger