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STAS MIDTERMS Human flourishings Flashcards

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making something

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Bringing Forth

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is what the Greeks call truth

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Revealing

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means unhidedness or disclosure

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Aletheia

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characterizes modern technology as a challenging forth- very aggressive in its activity.

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Heidegger

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the age of switches

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modern technology

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means obedience and submission.

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Piety

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WAY OF REVEALING IN MODERN TECHNOLOGY

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ENFRAMING

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One orders and puts a system to nature so it can be understood better and controlled

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Calculative thinking

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One lets nature reveal itself to him/ her without forcing it.

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Meditative thinking

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defined as an endeavor to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals.

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Human flourishing

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stated that human flourishing requires the development of attributes and social and personal levels that exhibit character strengths and virtues that are commonly agreed across different cultures.

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Seligman, Steen, Park and Peterson

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“there is an end of all the actions that we perform which we desire for itself”

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Aristotle

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presented the various popular conceptions of the best life for human beings

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Aristotle

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“Eudaimonia depends on virtue (arête) which is depicted as the most crucial and the dominant constituent of euddaimonia.”

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plato

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means good spirit is a property of one’s life when considered as a whole

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Eudamonia

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  • identifies that the eudaimon life is the life of pleasure maintains that life of pleasure coincides with the life of virtue.
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EPICIRUS

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believed that virtues such as self-control, justice, courage, wisdom, piety and related qualities of mind and soul are absolutely crucial

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socrates

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founder of Pyrrhonism

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Pyrrho

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“All human activities aim at some good”

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aristotle

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meaning of eu in eudaimonia

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good

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meaning of daimon in eudaimonia

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spirit

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eudaimonia is = to?

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good life

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happiness and virtue

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Good life

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intellectual and moral

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Virtue

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The 4 Pillar of the Good life

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Health, wealth, love and happiness

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“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

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Confucius

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“We should behave to others as we wish others to behave to us”

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Aristotle

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“Hurt not others with that which pains thyself.”

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Buddhism

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“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”

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Christianity

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King Solomon realized the vanity of success long, long ago: The world will never be enough: “The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing”

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Disillusion

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A form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental aspects and consciousness are results of material interactions.

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MATERIALISM

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means living with deep acceptance on the facticity of death resulting to a life lived-Heidegger

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authentic life

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led a school whose primary belief is that the world is made up of and is controlled by the tiny invisible units in the world called atomos or seeds.

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Democritus and Leucippus

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Is a school of thought that argues that the pursuit of pleasure and intrinsic goods are the primary or most important goals of human life

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hedonism

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simply comes together randomly to form the things in the world

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atomos

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strives to maximize net pleasure “Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.”

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hedonist

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Another school of thought led by Epicurus

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Stoicism

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espoused the idea that to generate happiness, one must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic.

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stoics

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Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism

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Monotheism

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A school of thought espouses the freedom of man to carve his own destiny

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humanism

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is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings

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humanism

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Refers to nontheistic life stance centered on human agency and looking to science rather than revelation from a supernatural source to understand the world.

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Humanism

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