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“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

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Thomas Jefferson

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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and
reasonable nature.”

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Marcus Aurelius

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“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

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Benjamin Franklin

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“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

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Agnes Repplier

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“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”

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Albert Einstein

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“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”

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Julia Roberts

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“Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”

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Linus Pauling

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“If you want others to be happy, practice
compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

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Dalai Lama

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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

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Mahatma Gandhi

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“Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”

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Mother Teresa

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A person who lives a moral life, obeying the commandments and performing the proper rituals, is pious.

T/F

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True

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According to Epicurus, the so-called “higher” pleasures such as friendship and study are as important as “pleasures of the flesh”

T/F

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True

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Epicurus’ claims that a happy life will involve many and varied pleasurable experiences

T/F

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True

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From a psychologist point of view, “happiness” is

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a mental state of contentment

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Eudaimonia is usually translated as happiness, but a better translation might be

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Fulfillment

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We need to open up the possibility of relying on technologies and it is natural to become enslaved to them.

T/F

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False

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Tell whether the following idea of society and human flourishing is an Eastern or Western Conception.

human flourishing as an end

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Western

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Tell whether the following idea of society and human flourishing is an Eastern or Western Conception.

encourage studies of sciences for a greater cause

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Eastern conception

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Tell whether the following idea of society and human flourishing is an Eastern or Western Conception.

focus is community centric

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Eastern conception

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Tell whether the following idea of society and human flourishing is an Eastern or Western Conception.

more focused on the individual

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western conception

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Tell whether the following idea of society and human flourishing is an Eastern or Western Conception.

confucian system

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eastern conception

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Tell whether the following idea of society and human flourishing is an Eastern or Western Conception.

aristotelian view

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western conception

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Tell whether the following idea of society and human flourishing is an Eastern or Western Conception.

aims for eudaimonia as the ultimate good

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western conception

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Tell whether the following idea of society and human flourishing is an Eastern or Western Conception.

individual should sacrifice himself for the sake of society

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eastern conception

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Eudaimonia is primarily associated with this philosopher

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Aristotle

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Match the following description that will best describe the philosophy of Good life

to pursue a particular kind of work with great dedication

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meaningful life

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Match the following description that will best describe the philosophy of Good life

to have exercise our uniquely human abilities and capacities means to have lived well

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fulfilled life

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Match the following description that will best describe the philosophy of Good life

being a virtuous person

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moral life

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Match the following description that will best describe the philosophy of Good life

absence of sufferings or misery

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life of pleasure

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Match the following description that will best describe the philosophy of Good life

whether one lived a good life can only be revealed after his death

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finished life

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Match the following description that will best describe the philosophy of Good life

what makes life worth living is that we can experience pleasure

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life of pleasure

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Match the following description that will best describe the philosophy of Good life

religions conceive of the good life as a life lived according to God’s laws

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moral life

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Match the following description that will best describe the philosophy of Good life

based from a greek saying “call no man happy until he’s dead”

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finished life

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Match the following description that will best describe the philosophy of Good life

to devote ourselves to a good cause

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meaningful life

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Match the following description that will best describe the philosophy of Good life

people who are able to pursue their calling are regarded as extremely fortunate

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fulfilled life

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To a neurologist, “happiness” is the experience .

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a flood of hormones such as adrenalin or endorphins

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Eudaimonia comes from the Greek words meaning

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good spirit

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For Aristotle, a happy life is a full-filled life.

T/F

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True

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Aristotle says, the only will to get away from the dangers of technology is to have “the will not to will”

T/F

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False

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For the behaviorist, “happiness” comes from ___

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experience of doing something good or positive

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For Hedonists, “happiness” comes from ___

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absence of pain

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While the ancient Greek experienced the ‘making’ of something as ‘helping something to come into being’ - as Heidegger explains that modern technology is rather a forcing into being’.

T/F

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True

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The word “hedonist” suggests that a person is devoted to what some have called the “lower” pleasures such as sex, food, drink, and sensual indulgence in general.

T/F

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True

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Heidegger claims that technology is not a means to an end.

T/F

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True

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One must have a free relationship with technology and recognize the essence of the developed technology

T/F

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True

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teaches us to be creative, flexible, and holistic in our vision and thinking

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philosophy

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To live as a ___ means never stop questioning (in this case, technology) and to never stop thriving for truth, to continue working to live better, to know more, and to revise your position based on new pieces of evidence.

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Philosopher

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means to grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, especially as the result of a, particularly favorable environment.

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flourish

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means it is growing, developing healthy or vigorously, due to a favorable event in history (maybe a scientific breakthrough) or a revolution. That growth and development may be accounted for the progress brought by science and technology.

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flourishing

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can also be viewed as a state where people experience positive emotions, positive psychological functioning, positive social functioning thus, most of the time living within an optimal range of human functioning.

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flourishing

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Human-person flourishing is often associated with

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happiness

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happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being that can be defined by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy

according to whom

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psychologist

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happiness is a cocktail of emotions we experience when we do something good or positive.

according to whom

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behaviorists

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happiness is the experience of a flood of hormones released in the brain as a reward for behavior that prolongs survival.

according to whom

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neurologist

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happiness is the polar opposite of suffering. The presence of happiness indicates the absence of pain thus, ____ believe that the purpose of life is to maximize happiness, whereby minimizes misery.

according to whom

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hedonist

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is a more accurate translation of “Human flourishing or prosperity”.

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Eudaimonia

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is a Greek word commonly translated as happiness or welfare.

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Eudaimonia

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The term Eudaimonia, combined from the Greek words for

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good spirit

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Eudaimonia is coined by

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Aristotle

60
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describe the ideology that defines happiness as the pursuit of becoming a better person.

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Eudaimonia

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a virtuous person is a happy person, that is someone living a fulfilled life

according to whom

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aristotle

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Aristotle tells us to live ___

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virtuously

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disposition to behave in certain ways

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virtues

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feeling fear but doing it anyawy

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courage

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golden mean

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virtue

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built with the ability to recognize virtue and learning to emulate them

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moral exemplars

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Like in ancient Greek society, we still believe that acquiring “____ “ will surely bring us happiness, which in effect leads us to live a “good life”, a “fulfilled life”.

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eudaimonia

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s an effort to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals, each with the right to pursue his own happiness with his/her own efforts..

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human flourishing

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It involves rational use of one’s individual potentials, including talents, abilities, knowledge (science and technology), and virtues in the pursuit of his freely and rationally chosen values and goals.

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human flourishing

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both the bearer and beneficiary of science and technology, flourishes and finds meaning in the world that he/she builds.

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human person

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The progress of human civilizations throughout history mirrors the development of

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science and technology

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As time changes, elements that comprise human flourishing changed; as we have learned from the history of science that societal changes were greatly affected by

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technological changes

73
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is used to provide mankind benefits like convenience, knowledge, solution to problems, etc. thus, “a means to an end”.

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technology

74
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To be able to appreciate the fruits of science and technology, ____ must examine not only the functionality and instrumentality of technology but also their greater impact on humanity as a whole

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society

75
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Thus, a paradigm shift, humans of today are expected to become

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man of the world

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Where we find ourselves in a global neighborhood, working side by side among institutions and the government to be able to reach a

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common good

77
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____ as a means of survival has become passé. ____ is the new trend.

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Competition
Collaboration

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It has been observed that ___ civilization tends to be more focused on the individual,

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western

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while those from the ___ are more community-centric.

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east

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Focus is community-centric
An individual should sacrifice himself for the sake of society

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Eastern conception

81
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Encourage studies of literature, sciences, and art for a greater cause

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Eastern conception

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Aims for eudaimonia as the ultimate good

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western conception

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aristotelian view

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eastern conception

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Aims for eudaimonia as the ultimate good

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western conception

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Chinese Confucian system

Japanese Bushido

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eastern conception

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evidently has shown us that technology is instrumental (a means to an end) and at the same time anthropological (a product of human activity). But technology is more than the tools we use.

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history

87
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question concerning technology

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technology is not an instrument
technology is not a product of human activity
technology is the highest danger

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This type of questioning was initiated by a German philosopher

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Martin Heidegger

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acknowledged as one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century, in his book “Concerning Technology”, claims that technology is not “a means to an end”, nor a product of “a human activity,” and such a wrong perception of technology is a danger in itself.

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Martin Heidegger

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study of being and becoming

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ontology

91
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way of reflecting on our experience in order to illuminate its meaning

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phenomenology

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being in the world

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dasein

93
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the basic givens of existence that you can’t just change by choice

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facticity

94
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how we exist inauthentically by falling away from our deeper destinies, mostly by doing what “the they” say

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fallenness

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what possibilities are we living toward?

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authenticity

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indeed played an active part in revealing the truth about nature (science) but it should not mean that human controls nature.

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humans

97
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does not call the shots.

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mankind

98
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is often associated with tools and machines. In modern times, the use of technology is inevitable. We are all affected by it, whether we like it or not; and whether admit it or not, we are benefitting from technology directly or indirectly.

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technology

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