Human Flourishing and Eudomania Quiz

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Amish community follows a lifestyle of simple living, plain dress, and selective ______

technology

Technological optimism focuses on the positive potential and benefits of technological ______

advancements

Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher associated with ______ and existentialism

phenomenology

Enflaming is a way of revealing in modern ______

technology

Calculative thinking orders and puts a system to nature so it can be ______ better and controlled

understood

The essence of technology, according to Heidegger, is that technology itself is not good or bad, but the problem is that technological thinking (calculative thinking) has become the only form of ______

thinking

___ civilization and the development of Science and Technology

Human

___ are both the bearer and beneficiary of science and technology

Humans

A person or a thing that carries or holds something. Finds meaning in the world that he/she ___

builds

Science and technology must be treated as part of human life that needs reflective and ___ thinking

meditative

Reflective thinking: A cognitive process or ___

introspection

Philosophy: Study and fundamental problems concerning existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind and ___

language

Aristotle believed that the ultimate goal of human life is eudaimonia, translated as ______

flourishing

Aristotle's conception of the four Causes were ______

mechanical

The belief that pleasure, or the absence of pain is the most important principle in determining the morality of a potential course of action is called ______

hedonism

The stoics espoused the idea that to generate happiness, the path to happiness for humans is found in accepting this moment as it presents itself. This philosophy is known as ______

stoicism

Materialism states that everything that truly exists is ______

matter

Theism is a philosophical or religious belief system that posits the existence of one or more ______

gods

Test your knowledge on human flourishing, the pursuit of self-actualization, and the concept of 'eudomania' which refers to a state of happiness or well-being. Explore the role of human civilization in the development of science and technology.

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