Week 6-8 Flashcards
For Aristotle, the final end of human life is
to flourish, to live well, to have a good life
Acquired desires or wants correspond to ________; things that are good because we want them
apparent goods
Natural desires or needs correspond to ________; things that are good for us whether we want them or not
real goods
health, vitality, vigor, and pleasure
bodily goods
food, drink, shelter, clothing, and sleep
external goods
knowledge, skill, love, friendship, aesthetic enjoyment, self-esteem, and honor
goods of the soul
two types of goods
limited goods and unlimited goods
type of goods that we can have more of them than we need
limited goods
type of goods that we cannot have more of them than we need
unlimited goods
The way to bridge the gap between knowledge of the good life, living it was through the development of a good ________
moral character
Aristotle calls good habits
virtues or excellences
Virtues of the mind are
Intellectual virtues
virtues exemplified by a regular disposition to choose correctly are
moral virtues
For Aristotle, wisdom is the most important
intellectual virtue, but moral virtue plays a special role in living well. The reason
moral virtue— or habits like
moderation, courage, and justice
is an ancient Greek concept of living well and doing well
eudaimonia
“eu” means
good
“daimon” means
spirit
In the eighteenth century, John Stuart Mill declared the
Greatest Happiness Principle
Who declared the Greatest Happiness Principle
John Stuart Mill
they led a school whose primary belief… that the world is made up of and is controlled by
the tiny indivisible units in the world called atomos or seeds
Democritus and Leucippus
the world is made up of and is controlled by
the tiny indivisible units in the world called atomos or seeds
materialism
The end goal of life is acquiring pleasure
hedonism
the stoic was led by
Epicurus
One must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic or apatheia, meaning be indifferent. According to them, happiness can be attained by careful practice or apathy
stoicism
Most people find meaning of their lives using God as a fulcrum of their existence.
theism
espouses the freedom to carve his own destiny and legislate his own laws, free from the shackles of a God that monitors and controls…man is literally the captain of his own ship
humanism
All human beings are born free & equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of
brotherhood
Article I
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedom set forth in this declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Article II
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person
Article III
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms
Article IV
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment
Article V
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article VI
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law
Article VII
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was crafted in the year
1948
is the knowledge communicated or obtained concerning fact or circumstance
information
The theory of Information Age in 1982 was proposed by
James R. Messenger
is a true age based upon the interconnection of computers via telecommunications with these information systems operating on both a real time and as needed basis.
Information Age
Sumerian writing system used pictographs to represent words
3000 BC
Beginnings of Egyptian hieroglyphics writing
2900 BC
Tortoise shell and oracle bone writing were used
1300 BC
Papyrus roll was used
500 BC
Book (parchment codex)
100 AD
Woodblock printing and paper was invented by the Chinese
105 AD
Johannes Guternberg invented the printing press using movable metal type
1755
Samuel Johnson’s dictionary standardized English spelling
1455
The library of congress was established;
Invention of the carbon arc lamp
1802
Research on persistence of vision published
1824
First viable design for digital computer
Agusta Lady Byron writes the world’s first computer program
1830s
Invention of the telegraph in the Great Britain and the United States
1837
Motion pictures were projected onto a screen
1861
Dewey Decimal System was introduced
1876
Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated high speed photography
1877
First magnetic recording was released
1899
Motion picture special effects were used
1902
Lee DeForest invented the electronic amplifying tube (triode)
1906
Television camer tube was invented by Zvorkyn
1923
MCA and Philips agreed on a Standard videodisc encoding
1974
Altair Microcomputer kit was released: first personal computer for the public
1975
RadopShack introduced the first complete personal computer
1977
Apple Macintosh computer was introduced
1984
Artificial Intelligence (AI) was separated from information science
Mid 1980s
Hypercard was developed by Bill Atkinson recipe box metaphor
1987
Four hundred fifty complete works of literature on one CD ROM was released
1991
RSA (encryption and network security software) Internet security code cracked for a 48 bit number
January 1997
