Hsu Flashcards
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Getting college degree
Traveling across the world
Succeeding in a business venture
Pursuing a healthy and active lifestyle
Spending time with family
Is an example of what?
Good life
He believe that eudaimonia is only possible by living a life of virtue
Aristotle
What defines the good life; to live a good life is to live a happy life.
State of being happy, healthy, and prosperous in the way one thinks, live and act.
Eudaimonia
Excellence of any kind
Has two types according to aristotle
Arete
Virtue of character; innate, it is brought into completion by habitual practice or action like generosity, temperance and courage.
Moral virtue
Virtue of thought; achieve through education, time and experience like wisdom and understanding.
Intellectual virtue
What is the aristotle’s formula of good life?
Intellectual + moral virtue = eudaimonia
The goal of life
Happiness
He declared “ greatest happiness principle” by saying that “actions is right as far as its maximize the attainment of happiness for the greatest number of people”
John stuart mill
He said that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. Happiness is intended and the absence of pain.
Greatest happiness principle by john stuart mill
In terms of human flourishing, matter is what makes us attain happiness.
Materialism
Only see the end goal of life is acquiring pleasure
Hedonist
For them life is about obtaining an indulging and pleasure because life is limited.
Their Mantra is “ eat and drink and be merry for tomorrow we die”
Hedonism
School of thought led by Epicurus
Stoicism
It spoused the idea that to generate happiness, one must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic.
Stoicism
For them happiness can only be attained by a careful practice of apathy. “ We should accept the fact that some things are beyond our control”
Stoicism/stoics
Most people find the meaning of their lives using god as the anchor of experience. The ultimate basis of happiness for theist is the communion with God. The world were we are in is only just a temporary reality where we have to maneuver around while waiting for the ultimate return to the hands of God.
Theism
It’s another school of thought spouses 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
Humanism
This school of thought inspired by the enlightenment in 17th century. Humanist see themselves not merely as stewards of the creation but as individuals who are in control of themselves and the world outside them.
Humanism
Derived from two greeks word t”echne” and “logos” meaning art and word respectively.
Technology
Started in 17th century concept was only talk about arts — applied arts. As this progress the concept started to have a wider range of meaning. Concepts like machine and tools for attached. Each person is to say in the society is directly or indirectly affected by this. Most people survive their everyday lives with great reliance to the different advancement already available to the masses of this. Already an inevitable part of the society.
Technology
Four benefits of technology
Convenience
pleasure
happiness
communication
True or false
Technology keep on progressive because of the changing times and environment.
True
True or false technology
keep on progressing because the mind of mankind is also progressing , brilliance creativeness and power of the mind.
True
