Human Flourishinh

Question 1

uses religious and moral principles to the question of human flourishing in an essay entitled “Buddhist Economics”

Answer 1

E.F Schumacher

Question 2

one of the requirements of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path

Answer 2

Right Livelihood

Question 3

spiritual health and material well being are?

Answer 3

not enemies. allies

Question 4

there exists a ________________ in tradional western economics, when it is pre occupied with a type of self-righteousness, which puts puts premium on goods over people or utility over creativity

Answer 4

misunderstanding

Question 5

Schumacher further explains that some scientists, _______ to be exact, think that their science is _______, they suffer from a certain blindness when they treat their field as a positive science and not as ___________ with certain set of assumptions

Answer 5

economists, absolute, social science

Question 6

is human flourishing an objective reality based on an objective criteria?

Answer 6

No, it is more complicated than mere physical and mechanical movements

Question 7

_____________ we reduce ourselves to robots, machines and objects, this sensibility stems the negative thinking toward _____, and the _______________

Answer 7

human flourishing mechanical
work
difficulty of experiencing satisfying work

Question 8

if all we do is focused on the aquisition of ____ and ______, we see ourselves pushing too much and exerting unnecessary effort to be someone we are not

Answer 8

wealth, becoming rich

Question 9

it is undeniable, say Schumacher, that ________ is human labor

Answer 9

source of wealth

Question 10

modern economies have understood labor from two opposing perspectives.

Answer 10

perspective of employer, perspective of workforce

Question 11

understood as cost in the process, removed by automation

Answer 11

perspective of employer

Question 12

perspective of workforce

Answer 12

disutility

Question 13

by disutility, Schumacher refers to ________ as a letting go of leisure and comfort

Answer 13

labor

Question 14

are understood as kind of compensation for the sacrifices made

Answer 14

wages

Question 15

envision “an output without employees”

Answer 15

employers

Question 16

envisions “income without payment”

Answer 16

workforce

Question 17

if work is treated as something to escape and run away from, then every attempt to ______ workload is preferable. the more we are able to make processes that decrease labor, the better. This explains why companies tend to _____. but because it is expensive, companies engage in the process of dividing ________

Answer 17

reduce, automate, labor

Question 18

___________ is also the introduction to specialization, splitting of processes into smaller parts
- produce efficiency of labor
-faster and accountability
- understood as progress
- misunderstood as human flourishing

Answer 18

labor

Question 19

Schumacher challenges this understanding of human flourishing using __________

Answer 19

Buddhist point of view

Question 20

in Buddhist perspective, _______ is understood as : to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties, to enable him to overcome his ego-centeredness by joining with other people in a common tasks, and bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence

Answer 20

labor

Question 21

if we understand work _________, Schumacher argues that it is _______ because it focuses on goods rather than people; this lacks compassion, inhumane

Answer 21

negatively, criminal

Question 22

two types of automation/mechanization

Answer 22

enhances the skill and power of humanity, reduces human work to a mechanical slave

Question 23

if our understanding of human flourishing simply constitutes automation/ mechanization, then we become ________

Answer 23

victims of slaves, not the vision of human flourishing we intend to push forward

Question 24

Schumacher further distinguishes Buddhist economics with ________, this distinction is based on the perspective that civilization is not about “duplication of wants and desires as it is “the purification of _________”

Answer 24

economics of modern materialism, human character

Question 25

For Buddhist, ________ is formed, as well as it is a consequence of human labor. since it is _________ that is concerned here, it is determined by the condition of human dignity and freedom and blesses who do it and equally their products.

Answer 25

character, human labor

Question 26

it is worth nothing that this different and more eastern disposition does not propose a denial and a departure of material world; instead it pushes forward __________

Answer 26

human integration

Question 27

_______ concerned merely with production of goods and the accumulation of wealth while ______ is all about type of liberation that is not against physical being

Answer 27

materialist perspective
buddhist perspective

Question 28

it is not technology or money that hinders and prevents the way of salvation from this perspective; instead, it is the __________ is the enemy of salvation. it is not wrong to enjoy pleasurable things; it is wrong to live ________ for them

Answer 28

attachment to money and wealth, craving

Question 29

Schumacher’s claim in Buddhist economics highlight two things:

Answer 29

nonviolence and simplicity

Question 30

______________ is human flourishing does not entail big or huge things, but tiny or small means that lead to a satisfactory result

___________ priotizes productivity over presence
This is considered weird by ________ who considers consumption only as an indicator and means to human well-being, but not a sole determinant for well-being.

Answer 30

Schumacher’s economists perspective

consumerist culture, buddhist economist

Question 31

________ then, cannot be understood as a vis-a-vis consumption, not a mark of what it means to be human.

However, ________ looks at consumption as the “sole end and purpose of all economic activity” and considers the many factors of production only as means.

what economics do is to maximize the _______ by stimulating the desire of consumption

Answer 31

Human-flourishing, economics, human drive

Question 32

when considering ______________, it seems like the best manner of consumption entails producing optimal human satisfaction, while utilizing a relatively low rate of consumption - nonviolence and simplicity

-life with out strain and pressure

Answer 32

human flourishing Buddhist-style

Question 33

central injuction of Buddhism

Answer 33

“cease to do evil, try to do good”

Question 34

as physical resources are scarce, the people’s drive to modestly satisfying their needs are more ________ than people who depend on high rate of consumption and use.

Answer 34

sustainable

Question 35

local communities that are ________ are less involved in large-scale violence.
Issues of ________ are concerns of human flourishing.

Answer 35

self-sufficient , sustainability

Question 36

from the point of view of Buddhist economics, production from local resources for local needs is the most _________ while dependence on imports from afar and the consequent need to produce for export to unknown and distant peoples is _____________ only in the exceptional cases and on a small circle

Answer 36

rational way of economic life, highly economic and justifiable

Question 37

if we are flourish as a specie, it needs to based on ____________

Answer 37

lifestyles that are totally sustainable