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STS MIDTERMS Flashcards

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Goal of Science

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is pursuit of knowledge for its own sake

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Technology is the _______ of Science

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practical application

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Goal of technology

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to create products that solve problems and improve human life

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Is a state where people experience positive emotions, positive
psychological functioning and positive social functioning, most of the time living within an optimal range of human
functioning

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Flourishing

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It is a descriptor and measure of positive mental health and overall life well-being
and includes multiple components and concepts such as cultivating strengths, subjective well-being, goodness, growth
and resilience

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Flourishing

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Defined as 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 such efforts

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Human Flourishing

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It encompasses the uniqueness, dignity,
diversity, freedom within the larger
family, community and population

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Human Flourishing

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Human Flourishing arises as a result of different components such as

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Phronesis; Friendship; Wealth, Power

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Wisdom relevant to practical action

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Phronesis

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10
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the mutual admiration between two human beings

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Friendship

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11
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constitutes the economic dimension

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Wealth

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12
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Cognitive Power of Judgement

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Power

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13
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T or F: As time changes, elements that comprise
human flourishing changed

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T

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14
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It is as a means of survival has
become obsolete

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Competition

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15
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A new trend

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Coordination

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Humans of today are expected to become __________. Supposed to situate himself in a global neighborhood, working side by side among institutions and the government to be able to reach a common goal

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“man of the worlds”

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17
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was a German philosopher whose work is perhaps
most readily associated with phenomenology
and existentialism, although his thinking should
be identified as a part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification

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Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976)

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For Heidegger, presently, we tend to be _____ to tech

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chained

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There is also a pervasive instrumentalist interpretation of technology as _________ that provides the __________

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human activity; means to our ends

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20
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Heidegger considers that technology involves the ___________ and suggests that with technology comes
a distinctive mode of disclosiveness, or
revealedness, that is, a kind of
_________________

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bringing-forth (poiesis); ontological truth (aletheia)

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Our activities, the things we encounter and deal with, and even we ourselves all
seem to happen together in a “world” where everything is set up and

__________ as part of a stockpile of available materials and personnel -

__________, always ready for technologically determined
purposes

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“enframed”; “standing-reserve” (Bestand)

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________________, then, is the
“essence” of the technological essence, not in the traditional sense of a permanent and unchangeable character
or set of properties, but in the sense of a predominant way of disclosing meaning which “gives” the instrumentally useful its familiar “instrumental” sense

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Enframing (Gestell)

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23
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T or F: Everything is seen as not calculable and just
mere instruments in order to attain what
is intended as an end

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F: EVerything is seen as calculable

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24
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Where danger is, there is also __________

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Saving Power (Friedrich Holderin)

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25
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This saving power is still through enframing but in another way, namely,
the possibility of opening up a ________________

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“FREE relation with technology.”

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T or F: A free relation with technology would thus have to happen “in a realm that is, on the one hand, akin to the essence of technology and, on the other, fundamentally different from it.”

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T

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27
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Solely depends on how humans let
themselves be consumed by it. The
responsibility of humans is to recognize
how they become instruments of
technology.

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Danger of Technology

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28
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It is not how one should act with regard
to technology - the question that seems
to be “always closest and solely urgent” but ________________

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how we should think, for technology “can never be overcome,”.

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29
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T or F: We are the master of Technology

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F: WE ARE NEVER ITS MASTER

30
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is seemed favored in the modern world because of its efficiency and exact or definite answers to questions.

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Calculative Thinking

31
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is a very important type of thinking for
Heidegger than the calculative; it helps
us to understand our life’s meaning,

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Meditative Thinking

32
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makes our
individual lives less important. It
implies that there is a way to categorize
everyone and everything in the world,
taking away any real free will.

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Calculative Thinking

33
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then-if taken as
the entire truth-makes us entirely
mechanistic. It suggests that there is
complete, objective truth and order in
the world. There would be no free will,
because every action would fit into a
greater structure.

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Calculative Thinking

34
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Aside from use of reason, art unveils ________

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the truth

35
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Why do we have art

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So we dont perish by the truth

36
Q

Art is not merely an imitation of the
reality of nature, but in truth ___________ to the reality
of nature, placed alongside thereof for
its conquest.

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a metaphysical supplement

37
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Therefore, a true judgment of beauty is disinterested; it is not based on any
known concept, simply a sensation of
unconstrained, completely detached
pleasure.

This is a concept by

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Immanuel Kant

38
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Aristotle defines the good that is suitable for human as those activities _____________

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Which make us human

39
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Together with __________, Power friendship wealth and __________ in the practice of __________, human can be happy and flourish

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Phronesis; excellence; virtues

40
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___________ demands that a human’s life must be a life with ________________ and we exercise our being __________

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Rationality; enough msterial goods; rational

41
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T or F: Eudaimonia is a state of mind

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False

42
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Eudaimonia is a combination of two Greek words:

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Good and spirit

43
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Eudaimonia defines happiness as

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the pursuit of becoming a better person

44
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Eudaimonists challenge themselves intellectually or by ___________

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engaging in activities that make them spiritually alive

45
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What is the Good Life?

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It is living comfort and luxury with few problems or worries. Happiness by living and doing well.

46
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What does it mean when Aristotle says that an act becomes an ultimate end?

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an act should be self suffiient and final

47
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When would an act be self sufficient and final?

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when it is desirable by itself and not as an instrument for something else?

48
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To attain happines it is necessary to act what is in congruence with ____________

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Right Reason

49
Q

What are the irrational parts that the rational part of the soul must take charge of?

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Appetite and Passion

50
Q

What is in the middle of indulgence and insensibility?

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Temperance

51
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The practice of habits that makes us take the middle ground and the avoidance of evil acts like adultery and stealing

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Practice of moral virtue

52
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T or F: Though we may have the moral capacity, it is guaranteed that we cannot go wrong

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FALSE; we can still go wrong

53
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What does rationality entail?

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Deliberation and choice

54
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According to Aristotle, i is not enough to know what is right is right. What is right for him is ____________

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knowing that it is right and choosing to do it

55
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Our highest nature

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Rationality

56
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Physicality is shared with _____________ but what makes us different from other animals is our _______________

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plants and animas; rationality

57
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The most important moral virtues

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prudence, justice, moderation, courage

58
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knowing what it is the morally right choice to make

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prudence

59
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keeps us from overindulging in pleasure

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moderation

60
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having the disposition to do what it takes to live a good life

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Courage

61
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the virtue that allows us to have friends

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Justice

62
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study of the good life

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morality

63
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the good life includes:

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GOOD:

choies; actions; habits; character

64
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For a Man to be considered a ___________, he should function well to his specific operations:

__________ - to think or reason
______ - to choose

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Good man; intellect; will

65
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Examples of bodily goods

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health, vitality, good looks, dexterity

66
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Examples of material goods

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wealth, friends, power, noble birth, clothes

67
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the obective standard of happiness according to Aristotle

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eudaimonia

68
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we must have and use the goods of the soul to attain

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eudaimonia

69
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Goods of the soul example

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knowledge, skill, love, virtue

70
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a person develops Good Habits and Moral values by

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practicing being honest brave just

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