Midterms 2 Flashcards
What is eudaimonia?
Came from the Greek word eu meaning “good” and daimon meaning “spirit”
Flourishing life filled with meaningful endeavors that empower the human person to be the best version of himself/herself
Eudimonia
All human activities aim at some good.
Nicomachean ethics 2:2
Behavior showing high moral standards
Paragons of virtue
The simple virtue and integrity of peasant life
Virtues
The virtues:
Intellectual virtue
Moral virtue
Theoretical wisdom (thinking and truth)
Practical wisdom understanding
Experience and time are necessary for the development of intellectual virtue
Intellectual virtue
Controlled by practical wisdom (ability to make right judgment)
Owed its development to how one nurtured it as habit
Can be learned
Moral virtue
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
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It is not something that can be gained or lost in a few hours, like pleasurable sensations
Happiness as the ultimate purpose of human existence
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.
Happiness as the ultimate purpose of human existence
Science and Technology and Good Life
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.
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
Aristotle
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
Aristotle
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.
Aristotle
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.
Aristotle
Who?
“Happiness depends on ourselves”
Central purpose of human life and a goal in itself
Depends on the cultivation of virtue
aristotle
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.
Aristotle
Who?
All human activities aim at some good.
Aristotle
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.
Karl Popper
Who?
There is no assurance that observable event or “evidences” are indeed manifestations of a certain concept or “theories”
Karl Popper
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophers have tried for centuries to pin down a hard, solid grounding for knowledge, looking for absolute for knowledge, looking for absolute certainties.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Who?
was cynical about this– he suggested we largely accept and believe what is valuable to us, our society, our species.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Who?
Value comes before truth, or rather ‘truth’ is only valued if it is useful, and what is useful will be taken as “truth”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Who?
Not relativism but perspectivism–not all perspectives are of equal value.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Martin Heidegger
It could either be an instrument(means to an end) or a process (humana activity)
Serves as a means to an end
Martin Heidegger
Provides convenience, knowledge and ensure good quality of life
Martin Heidegger stated technology is a way of revealing
Martin Heidegger
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.
Martin Heidegger
Modern technology is characterized as challenging forth.
We forgot to be FREE and Live for Ourselves.
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
