Module 4.1: "Science and Technology and The Human Conditions" Flashcards
(43 cards)
_________ is the highest good of human endeavors and that toward which all actions aim.
Flourishing
According to Ceslas Spicq, the focus of ancient philosophers was defining the _______.
well-lived life
They called this life Eudaimonia, which we can translate as “________” or happiness.
flourishing – happiness
______ explains the Stoic’s core teachings.
The Stoic Happiness Triangle
The Stoic Happiness Triangle is part of the book ”_________.”
The Little Book of Stoicism
The only way to achieve true flourishing was to live a life separate from the _______.
influence of fickle emotions
Stoic Happiness Triangle
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Live with Areté:
Focus on What You Control:
Take Responsibility:
Stoic Happiness Triangle
This is about being your best version in the here and now.
Live with Areté:
Stoic Happiness Triangle
The Stoics realized that there are things we control, and things we don’t control.
Focus on What You Control:
Stoic Happiness Triangle
Even if we don’t control everything that happens, we must take
responsibility for our own lives. Because every event offers an area we control, namely how we judge the event and how we choose to respond.
Take Responsibility:
_____ vision of ethics was that they should not be about the individual’s flourishing and happiness, but about principles of duty, ultimately the duties that are universal to all people.
Kant’s
Immanuel Kant
According to ______
The highest good for human beings is attaining both virtue and happiness at the same time.
Immanuel Kant
According to ______
“We should all cultivate good will with the rest of the world, and that is not a measure of happiness but real well-being.”
Immanuel Kant
His ethics can be viewed as a form of egoistic hedonism (or hedonistic egoism).
Epicurus
According to ______
“We all desire happiness as an end in itself, and all other things are desired as a means for producing happiness.”
Epicurus
Epicurus
Virtues are rational behaviors that lead to ________.
Eudaimonia
According to ______
Actions should be measured in terms of happiness or pleasure that they produce.
Utilitarians
According to ______
Happiness = pleasure and the absence of pain
Utilitarians
According to ______
We should pursue pleasure and happiness not just for ourselves, but for as many sentient beings as possible.
Utilitarians
who believed that happiness not pleasure should be the standard of utility.
John Stuart Mill
For __________, pleasure and pain govern not only how human beings act but also how human beings ought to act.
“I ought do that act which will bring about the greatest happiness (pleasure) for the greatest number of persons (the community).”
Jeremy Bentham
Coined the word Eudaimonia.
Aristotle
He was an empiricist.
Aristotle
You should become virtuous because if you are, then you can attain the pinnacle of humanity (Eudaimonia).
Aristotle
