Mod 4 Flashcards
Where people experience positive emotions, positive psychological functioning and positive social functioning, most of the time, “living within an optimal range of human functioning”
Flourishing
An effort to achieve self actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals, each with the right to pursue his or her own such efforts.
Human flourishing
Human flourishing can be captured by the term
Eudaimonia
It is defined as a contented state of being happy, healthy and prosperous.
Human flourishing according to aristotle
An effort to attain self discovery and fulfillment within the setting of society, each with the right to pursue his or her effort to achieve such state.
Human flourishing
Flourishing life will be a life will be alive lived in right relationship with God, with one’s environment, with neighbors and with self.
Human flourishing in the christian perspective
Human person as both the _____ and the ______of science and technology.
Bearer and beneficiary
True or False. Human flourishes and finds meaning in the world he/she builds.
True
In the pursuit of a good life, human may unconsciously acquire, ___________ what the world has to offer.
Consume or destroy
Science and technology must be treated as part of human life that needs ______ and _______.
Reflective and meditative thinking.
What to do to be able to appreciate the fruits of science and technology.
Examine not only for their function and instrumentality but also for the greater impact on humanity as a whole.
German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the continental tradition of philosophy.
Martin Heidegger
Heidegger notes that the root of the word technology is ______
Techne
The word teche according to heidegger means ______
A mode of knowing
Heidegger strongly opposes the view that technology is a means to _______ or _______
an end or human activity
Technology, according to heidegger must be understood as _______as it shows so much more about the person and the world.
A way of revealing
Revealing is his translation of the greek word aletheuein, which means _______.
To uncover what was covered over
Aletheia is translated as _____. Though Heidegger insist that a more adequate translation would be _______.
Truth, un-concealment
Everything we perceive or think of or interact with ___________, by entering a particular relation with reality.
Emerges out of concealment into unconcealment
While the ancient greeks experience the making of something as _______ as heidegger explains that modern technology is rather a _______.
Helping something to come into being, forcing into being
Technology reveals the world as _______, available for production and manipulation.
Raw material
According to _______ there is something wrong with the modern, technological culture we live in today.
Heidegger
Understanding of _______, according to heidegger is to be seen as the ultimate danger
Being
