The Good Life (PDF)

AN INTERESTING QUESTION POSTED BY MARK MANSON: “What do you do want out of PROBABLY ANSWER IN THE SIMPLEST COMMON WAY : “I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like” AN INTERESTING QUESTION POSTED BY MARK MANSON: “What is happiness for AN INTERESTING QUESTION...

AN INTERESTING QUESTION POSTED BY MARK MANSON: “What do you do want out of PROBABLY ANSWER IN THE SIMPLEST COMMON WAY : “I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like” AN INTERESTING QUESTION POSTED BY MARK MANSON: “What is happiness for AN INTERESTING QUESTION POSTED BY MARK MANSON: “HOW WE CAN DIFFERENTIATE BEING GOOD AND BEING RIGHT? “Is a meaningful life also a happy one?” And “Is living with happiness means living a good life?”  CAN TECHNOLOGY EVENTUALLY EXTINGUISH HUMANITY?  LIVING THE GOOD LIFE  LEARNING OUTCOMES 1. Explain the concept of the good life. 2. Define the good life in their own words; and 3. Examine shared concerns that make-up the good life with innovative and creative solutions to contemporary issues guided by ethical standards.  It is a “The good life DIRECTION, not is a PROCESS, a not a STATE DESTINATION” Carl Rogers, American OF BEING. Psychologist 1902-1987 Achieving happiness and man's own desire and needs commonly gives essence for living a good life. In particular, moral decency and goodness, authenticity, mental health, self-fulfillments, and meaningfulness describes it.” MARTIN (2012)  DOTSON (2012) “ Every human being aspires to live a good life. Conversely, man's idea of “good life” differs in many dimensions.” ONCEPTS OF BEI GOO NG “GOOD” Is commonly used interchangeably with the term “RIGHT”  Explained that the adjectives good and right are related in meaning, but are not synonyms. It makes no sense to speak of a “right person” when we mean a “good person; or the right action as a meaning for good action. TRAER (2007)  HOW WE CAN DIFFERENTIATE THE TWO TERM THEN? Taking the right action means correctly applying a norm, premise, presupposition, rule, standard, or law. This explains that the term “right” reasons are being used to justify the principle and its application. DUTY RIGHT ACTION Right Action compels RIGHTS fulfilling duties and upholding rights. Being good involves having the character and personal qualities that were justified by reason as having moral worth. TRAER 2007 MORALS refer to an individuals own principles regarding RIGHT and  In Aristotelean view, “The understandability of the good is based on the idea of what is FOR ARISTOTLE The good is what is good for purposeful, goal-directed entities. He defines the good proper to human being as the activities in which the life functions specific to human beings are most fully realized.  CHARACTER BEING GOOD RELATIONSHIPS Being good entails nurturing character and fostering  ACTING RIGHTLY means doing the right thing based on the voice of conscience, otherwise, feeling of guilt, self-reproach, and remorse will be felt. It follows that a person, as a human being, has his own consciousness, of function, survival, and means of having the life he envisioned. Thus, considering the aspect of human being nature, the term “good” denotes a more objective meaning of “a state or way of being.”  GO H E T LIF The meaning of this term up to present times remains vague. Wise men of the past argued with nature and prerequisites of the good life. Similarly, questions such as “Is a meaningful life also a happy one?” and “Is living with happiness means living a good life?” are still part of the debates even of the philosophers. SOCRA TES “ The unexamined life is not worth living for”, the idea of worthwhile living should be filtered with experience ARIST OTLE Further elucidated the idea of relating the essence of happiness to achieving  STEVE MUELLER (2016) THE FOUNDER OF PLANET OF SUCCESS defined the term as:.. a (desirable) state that is primarily characterized by a high standard of living or the adherence to ethical and moral laws. As such, the term can both be understood as the quest for wealth, material possessions or luxuries and the quest to create a worthwhile, honest and meaningful existence. MARTIN HEIDEGGER An existentialist philosopher, also has a different view on the aspect of life. He dealt more on how we live an “authentic life” rather dealing with the “good life”. For Heidegger, living an authentic life means living with deep acceptance on the facticity of “death” and resulting to a “life lived according to what it has clearly decided as its meaning and purpose”.  CAN TECHNOLOGY EVENTUALLY EXTINGUISH HUMANITY? No one can deny that fact that SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY has a PROFOUND impact on how modern man thinks and appreciates matter. It can be concretely seen in the present conditions of man in the society. The desire to feel satisfaction of research and development through genetic engineering, cloning and the likes opened endless doors for skeptics.  (TIMBREZA, 2013) On the other hand, man's varied ethical foundations may also differentiate the idea of good life. Some may define it through attaining pleasure (hedonism); others may relate it to peace of mind through minimizing desires and passions (stoicism) and some views are based on professing moderate pleasure, which for them, “anything that is taken in excess is bad” (epicureanism)  “What good life is?” Remains a question for everyone.