STS (M1) Flashcards
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a state where people experience positive emotions, positive psychological functioning and positive social functioning and 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 efforts
Human flourishing
involves the rational use of ones individual human potentialities, including talents, abilities, and virtues in the pursuit of his freely and rationally chosen values and goals.
Human flourishing
a term that combines the Greek words for “good” and “spirit” to describe the ideology.
Eudaimonia
To describe the pinnacle of happiness that is attainable by humans (human flourishing)
Eudaimonia
do this by challenging themselves intellectually or by engaging in activities that make them spiritually richer people.
Eudaemonists’
defines happiness as the pursuit of becoming a better person.
Eudaimonia
In _______, happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being which can be defined by, among others, positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.
psychology
To _________, happiness is a cocktail of emotions we experience when we do something good or positive.
behaviorists
To _______, happiness is the experience of a flood of hormones released in the brain as a reward for behavior that prolongs survival.
neurologists
The _ view of well-being is that happiness is the polar opposite of suffering, the presence of happiness indicates the absence of pain. Because of this, ________ believe that the purpose of life is to maximize happiness, which minimizes misery
hedonistic, hedonists
believed that human flourishing requires a life with other people.
Aristotle
taught that people acquire virtues through practice and that a set of concrete virtues could lead a person toward his natural excellence and happiness.
Aristotle
According to _______ there is an end of all of the actions that we perform which we desire for itself. This is what is known as eudaimonia, flourishing, or happiness, which is desired for its own sake with all other things being desired on its account.
Aristotle
is a property of one’s life when considered as a whole.
Eudaimonia
is the highest good of human endeavors and that toward which all actions aim. It is success as a human
Flourishing
Every discovery, innovation, and success contribute to our pool of ________
human knowledge
is deeply intertwined with goal setting relevant to science and technology
Human flourishing
is a human activity that we excel in as a result of achieving science
Technology
The end goals of both science and technology and human flourishing are related, in that the _________________
good is inherently related to the truth
Two concepts about science which ventures its claim on truth:
Verification theory
Falsification theory
General idea of how to do science:
- OBSERVE and determine if there are unexpected occurrences unfolding
- DETERMINE THE PROBLEM and identify factors involved
- FORMULATE HYPOTHESIS that could explain the said phenomenon
- CONDUCT EXPERIMENT by setting up dependent and independent variables, and trying to see how dependent ones affect dependent ones
- GATHER AND ANALYZE results throughout and upon culmination of the experiment; examine if the data gathered are significant enough to conclude results
- FORMULATE CONCLUSION AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATION in case other would want to broaden the study
The earliest criterion that distinguishes philosophy and science
VERIFICATION THEORY
The idea proposes that a discipline is science if it can
be confirmed or interpreted in the event of an alternative hypothesis being accepted
VERIFICATION THEORY