Week 6-8 Flashcards

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For Aristotle, the final end of human life is

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to flourish, to live well, to have a good life

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Acquired desires or wants correspond to ________; things that are good because we want them

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apparent goods

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Natural desires or needs correspond to ________; things that are good for us whether we want them or not

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real goods

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health, vitality, vigor, and pleasure

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bodily goods

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food, drink, shelter, clothing, and sleep

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external goods

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knowledge, skill, love, friendship, aesthetic enjoyment, self-esteem, and honor

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goods of the soul

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two types of goods

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limited goods and unlimited goods

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8
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type of goods that we can have more of them than we need

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limited goods

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type of goods that we cannot have more of them than we need

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unlimited goods

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The way to bridge the gap between knowledge of the good life, living it was through the development of a good ________

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moral character

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Aristotle calls good habits

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virtues or excellences

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12
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Virtues of the mind are

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Intellectual virtues

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13
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virtues exemplified by a regular disposition to choose correctly are

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moral virtues

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14
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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

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moderation, courage, and justice

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15
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is an ancient Greek concept of living well and doing well

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eudaimonia

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16
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“eu” means

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good

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17
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“daimon” means

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spirit

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18
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In the eighteenth century, John Stuart Mill declared the

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Greatest Happiness Principle

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19
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Who declared the Greatest Happiness Principle

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John Stuart Mill

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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

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Democritus and Leucippus

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the world is made up of and is controlled by
the tiny indivisible units in the world called atomos or seeds

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materialism

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22
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The end goal of life is acquiring pleasure

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hedonism

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23
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the stoic was led by

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Epicurus

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24
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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

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stoicism

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Most people find meaning of their lives using God as a fulcrum of their existence.
theism
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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
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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
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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
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Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person
Article III
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No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms
Article IV
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No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment
Article V
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Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article VI
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All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law
Article VII
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was crafted in the year
1948
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is the knowledge communicated or obtained concerning fact or circumstance
information
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The theory of Information Age in 1982 was proposed by
James R. Messenger
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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
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Sumerian writing system used pictographs to represent words
3000 BC
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Beginnings of Egyptian hieroglyphics writing
2900 BC
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Tortoise shell and oracle bone writing were used
1300 BC
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Papyrus roll was used
500 BC
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Book (parchment codex)
100 AD
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Woodblock printing and paper was invented by the Chinese
105 AD
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Johannes Guternberg invented the printing press using movable metal type
1755
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Samuel Johnson's dictionary standardized English spelling
1455
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The library of congress was established; Invention of the carbon arc lamp
1802
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Research on persistence of vision published
1824
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First viable design for digital computer Agusta Lady Byron writes the world's first computer program
1830s
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Invention of the telegraph in the Great Britain and the United States
1837
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Motion pictures were projected onto a screen
1861
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Dewey Decimal System was introduced
1876
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Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated high speed photography
1877
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First magnetic recording was released
1899
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Motion picture special effects were used
1902
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Lee DeForest invented the electronic amplifying tube (triode)
1906
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Television camer tube was invented by Zvorkyn
1923
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MCA and Philips agreed on a Standard videodisc encoding
1974
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Altair Microcomputer kit was released: first personal computer for the public
1975
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RadopShack introduced the first complete personal computer
1977
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Apple Macintosh computer was introduced
1984
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) was separated from information science
Mid 1980s
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Hypercard was developed by Bill Atkinson recipe box metaphor
1987
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Four hundred fifty complete works of literature on one CD ROM was released
1991
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RSA (encryption and network security software) Internet security code cracked for a 48 bit number
January 1997
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