STS Good Life Flashcards
- People want to be healthy but many consume junk food
- People want to be happy but many do things that make themselves miserable
- Most things that taste good are probably bad for you.
- Most things that give you thrill are probably bad for you too.
What is the good life? - People have different ideas of what constitutes the good life.
- Wrong pursuits may lead to tragic consequences.
- Correct pursuits may lead to flourishing.
The Good Life
All human activities aim at some good. Every art and human inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has been rightly declared as that at which all things aim.
Aristotle
Eu-good, daimon- spirit= good life
Eudaimonia
happiness and virtue
Good life
intellectual and mora
Virtue
The 4 Pillar of the Good life
Health, wealth, love and happiness
- Everybody wants more happiness and success.
- It’s good to know how to optimize happiness and success.
- There is a wide agreement that happiness is the greatest human good.
THE HAPPINESS PURSUIT
- The happiness pursuit becomes one’s ultimate purpose in life.
- The happiness pursuit is not guided by a philosophy of life informed by general principles of
meaning, spirituality and virtue.
RISK FACTORS
'’What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others’’
Confucius
'’We should behave to others as we wish others to behave to us’’
Aristotle
'’Hurt not others with that which pains thyself’’
Buddhism
'’D unto others as you would have them do unto you.’’
Christianity
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”( Eccl.1:8)
Disillusion
'’Living an authentic life means living with deep acceptance on the facticity of death resulting to a life lived’’
Heidegger
'’The unexamined life is not worth living for’’
Socrates
good people, good community and world peace
good life
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
MATERIALISM
Classification of Materialism
- Naïve materialism
- Dialectical materialism
- Metaphysical materialism
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
Hedonism
A ________ strives to maximize net pleasure (pleasure minus pain) but when having finally
gained that pleasure, happiness remains stationary
hedonist
- Another school of thought led by Epicurus
- The stoics espoused the idea that to generate happiness, one must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic
- The path to happiness for humans is found in accepting this moment as it presents itself, by not allowing ourselves to be controlled by our desire for pleasure, or our fear of pain.
Stoicism
- The belief in the existence of the Supreme Being or Deities
- Describes the classical conception of God.
- The ultimate basis of happiness is the communication with God
- Monotheism- Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism
THEISM
- A school of thought espouses the freedom of man to carve his own destiny and to legislate his own laws, free from the shackles of a God that monitors and controls.
- Is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively.
- Refers to nontheistic life stance centered on human agency and looking to science rather than revelation from a supernatural source to understand the world.
Humanism
