STAS: CONCEPT ABOUT GOOD LIFE

Question 1

PROCESS not a STATE OF BEING.
It is a DIRECTION, not a DESTINATION”
— Carl Rogers, American Psychologist 1902-1987
- Something that we live day by day

Answer 1

good life

Question 2

• Something that we live day by day

Answer 2

good life

Question 3

(T or f)
GOOD” is commonly used interchangeably with
the term “RIGHT”

• The two terms are not the same

Answer 3

true

Question 4

entails fulfilling your duty and protecting
your rights and the rights of other people

Answer 4

RIGHT

Question 5

Taking the _________action means correctly applying a
norm, premise, presupposition, rule, standard, or
law. This explains that the term “right” reasons are
being used to justify the principle and its
application.

Answer 5

RIGHT

Question 6

compels fulfilling duties and upholding rights

Answer 6

Right action

Question 7

refer to an individuals own principles regarding right and wrong

Answer 7

Morals

Question 8

related to concept of character and personal
qualities

Answer 8

GOOD

Question 9

(t or f)

• Being good involves having the character and
personal qualities that were justified by reason as
having moral worth (Traer, 2007)
• While right is connected with morality, good is
different

Answer 9

true

Question 10

• “The understandability of the good is based on the
idea of what is good for the specific entity under
consideration”

Answer 10

ARISTOTELEAN VIEW OF “GOOD”

Question 11

The good is what is good for purposeful, goal-
directed entities. He defines the good proper to
human being as the activities in which the life
functions specific to human beings are most fully
realized
- Being good entails nurturing character and
fostering relationships
- Eudaimonia
- In building the character, you have to build and
do the action repeatedly
- Being good doesn’t just mean happiness [in
possessions or fame], but happiness is building
good life in such building a good character

Answer 11

aristotle

Question 12

• An existentialist philosopher, also has a different
view on the aspect of life. He dealt more on how we
live an “authentic life” rather dealing with the
“good life”. For Heidegger, living an authentic life
means living with deep acceptance on the facticity
of “death” and resulting to a “life lived according to
what it has clearly decided as its meaning and
purpose”
- Assess ourselves.
“am I having a good life?”

Answer 12

MARTIN HEIDEGGER