Human Flourishing: An Examination of Happiness PDF

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Lesson 1: HUMAN FLOURISHING this by challenging IN TERMS OF S&T themselves intellectually or by engaging in activities that Happiness make them spiritually richer - A mental or emotional state people. of well-being which can be For Aristotle, eudaimonia means defined by positive or “good spirited”. He described the pleasant emotions ranging pinnacle of happiness that is from contentment to attainable by humans. “Human intense joy. (psychology) Flourishing” – self-actualization - Is a cocktail of emotions we HEDONIA (Feel Good) experience when we do something good or positive. The (behaviorist) The Sweet Fulfilled Life Life - Is the experience of a flood of hormones released in the brains as a reward for The Void The Dry Life behavior that prolongs Life survival. (neurologist) 2 Views of Happiness: EUDAIMONIA (Feel Purpose) 1. HEDONISTIC – happiness is the polar opposite of From NICOMACHEAN ETHICS suffering; it indicates the (philosophical inquiry into the nature of the good life for a human being) absence of pain. Hedonists believe that the purpose of - Human flourishing arises life is to maximize because of different happiness, which components such as: minimizes misery. PHRONESIS – 2. EUDAIMONIA – term that habit of making the combines Greek words for right decisions and “good” and “spirit” to taking the right describe the ideology. actions Happiness as the pursuit FRIENDSHIP of becoming a better WEALTH person. Eudaimonists do POWER In Greek society, they believe that EASTERN VS WESTERN acquiring these will surely brings the CONCEPTION regarding SOCIETY seekers happiness, which in effect and HUMAN FLOURISHING allows them to partake in the greater EASTERN WESTERN notion of what we call the Good. Focus: Focus: As time changes, elements that community- individual comprise human flourishing centric changed. Individual Human People found means to live more should flourishing as sacrifice an END comfortably, explore more places, themselves for develop more products and make the sake of more money. society Humans of today are expected to Chinese Aristotelian become “MAN OF THE WORLD”. Confucian view System Supposed to situate himself in a global neighborhood, working side Japanese by side among institutions and the Bushido government to be able to reach a common goal. Encourages Aims for studies of eudaimonia as Competition as a means of survival literature, the ultimate has become passé. sciences, and good art for a greater Coordination is the new trend cause - Humans’ perpetuals need to SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and HUMAN locate themselves in the world FLOURISHING by finding proofs to trace evolution - Every discovery, innovation, - Technology is a human activity and success contribute to our we excel in as a result of pool of human knowledge. achieving science (Heidegger). - Elicits our idea of self- - Good is inherently related to importance the truth. SCIENCE as methods and results: Falsification Theory - Science stems from objectivity - If an ideology is not proven to brought upon by a rigid method be false and can best explain a - claim to reason and phenomenon over alternative empiricism theories, we should accept the said ideology. Steps in scientific method: - Allowed emergence of theories 1. observe otherwise rejected by the 2. determine the problem verification theory. 3. formulate hypothesis - Encourages research to 4. conduct experiments determine which among the 5. gather and analyze theories can stand the test of 6. formulate conclusions and falsification provide recommendations Karl Popper - Aims at the production of new Verification Theory falsifiable predictions - Discipline in science if it can be - Scientific practice is confirmed or interpreted in the characterized by its continual event of an alternative effort to test theories against hypothesis being accepted experience and make revisions - Premium on empiricism based on the outcome of these - Considers those results which tests are measurable and experiments which are repeatable. Vienna Circle - Group of scholars who believed that Only those which can be observed should be regarded as meaningful Rejects those which cannot be directly accessed as meaningless  Lesson 2: THE GOOD LIFE What is meant by good life? Aristotle - Living in comfort and luxury with few problems or - Ancient Greek philosopher worries. - Known for natural - Characterized by happiness philosophy, logic, and from living and doing well political theory - Content - First to classify areas of human knowledge into Eudaimonia district disciplines such as mathematics, biology, and - EU : good ethics. - DAIMON : spirit - Founder of the Lyceum – 1st - Good life marked by scientific institute based in happiness and excellence Athens, Greece. - One of the strongest advocates of liberal arts Aristotle’s view of good life education – which stresses - Activity of soul in the education of the whole accordance with virtue person including one’s moral character rather than Believed that good for humans is merely learning a set of the maximum realization of skills. what is unique to humans Good for humans was to reason well Nicomachean Ethics 2.2 The task of reason was to teach - All human activities aim at humans how to act virtuously, some good and the exercise faculties in - Every art and human inquiry accordance with virtue. and similarly every action and pursuit is thought to aim VIRTUE/S: at some good; and for this Behavior showing high reason the good has been moral standards rightly declared as that at Paragons of virtue which all things aim. Synonyms: keribels Nicomachean Ethics 2.1 Happiness to Aristotle - Virtue, then, being of two - Depends on ourselves kinds, Intellectual and - Central purpose of human Moral. life and a goal in itself - Intellectual: in the mains - Depends on the cultivation owes its birth and growth in of virtue teaching (for its reason it - A genuinely happy life requires experience and required the fulfilment of a time) broad range of conditions, - Moral: comes about as a including physical as well as result of habit metal well-being. Intellectual Moral virtue virtue HAPPINESS AS THE ULTIMATE Theoretical Controlled by PURPOSE OF HUMANE EXISTENCE wisdom (thinking Practical and truth) Wsidom (ability - Final end or goal that to make right encompasses the totality of judgement) one’s life. - Not something that can be Owed its gained or lost in a few hours, development like pleasurable sensations Understanding to how one - More like the ultimate value nurtured it as of your life as lived up to this habit moment Experience and time are SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND necessary GOOD LIFE requirements Can be learned for the - S&T is also the movement development of towards good life I.V. - One of the highest expressions of human faculties - Allows us to thrive and flourish if we desire it  - May corrupt a person - S&T with virtue can help an individual to be out of danger “Life is good! Live it well!” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah  Lesson 3: ROBOTICS Television When technology and Humanity - In PH, 92% of urban homes Cross and 70% of rural homes owns at least one television set. (Kantar Media) Technology - Household with TV set reached 15.135M (Noda, - Techne and logos 2012) - A discourse on art - Ultimate medium for (Buchanan, 2010) advertisement placements - Machines, tools - Plays a great role in the lives - Person in the society is of the people directly or indirectly affected by technology - An inevitable part of the Paul Gottlieb Nipkow society - A WANT - late 1800’s - successful in his attempt to PROS: send images through wires - Convenience with the aid of rotating metal - Pleasure disk (Nipkow disk) - Happiness - electric telescope – 18 - Communication lines of resolution CONS: Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton & Boris Rosing - Anything too much is bad - Various ethical dilemmas - new system of TV by using involving the use of cathode ray tube in addition technological devices to the mechanical scanner - Misuse or invention to system produce bad result Mobile Phones Computers and Laptops - in 2010, Synovate declared - Not possible for all Filipino 67% product ownership in families to own at least one the country. computer/laptop - More than half of Filipino - Most profits gains by population owns a mobile com/lap come from offices, phone regardless of type businesses, or schools - Considered a MUST-HAVE - *internet providers among young Filipinos Charles Babbage – program com/lap (ABS-CBN News, 2010) - 1 of 3 Filipinos cannot live without a mobile phone – Ipsos Media Atlas PH OSBORNE 1 Nationwide Urban 2011- - June 1981 by Osborne 2012 survey Computer Corp. - Considered to be the first true portable, full-featured Fuck fact: computer Martin Cooper, an engineer, made the first call on a cellphone calling his rival engineer to brag about his FACTS abt Filipinos and their use of accomplishment. gadgets and internet: Cp weighed: 1.1kg - Mobile phone subscriptions is at 119M Measurements: 228.6 x 127 x - 3.2hrs on mobile 44.4mm - 5.2hrs on desktop daily - PH one of the highest digital 30-minute talk time populations in the world 10-hr to charge - 47M active FB Accounts - Fastest growing application Motorola DynaTAC 8000x in 1983 market in SEA Roles played by these Technological SERVICE ROBOT Advancements: - Performs useful tasks for - TV Set human/equipment - Mobile Phones excluding industrial - Computers & Laptops applications - INDUSTRIAL ROBOT or SERVICE ROBOT Ethical Dilemmas (classification) - Most parents would argue PERSONAL SERVICE ROBOT that these devices make - their children lazy and unhealthy. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ROBOT - People are freely exposed to - Ise for a commercial task, different things on TV, usually operated by a phones, laptops, or properly trained operator puttersers GEORGE DEVOL Ethics of Responsibility - American inventor known “What ought to be allowed?” for developing UNIMATE – 1st material handling robot employed in industrial ROBOT production work - Actuated mechanism programmable in two or more axes with a degree of Roles played by Robotics: autonomy, moving within its - Ease the workload of environment, to perform mankind intended tasks. - Make life more efficient and - Autonomy: ability to less stressful perform intended tasks - Perform complicated based on current state and activities sensing without human intervention.  - Pleasure, entertainment in emotions (ex. Sophia, parks or exhibits Hanson Robotics) - Toys, child-friendly - Used in movies LIST OF ROBOTS MADE KRUKRU ISAAC ASIMOV - American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University - 3 LAWS OF ROBOTICS: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2. A robot must obey orders given by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law. Ethical Dilemma/s faced by Robotics: - SAFETY - EMOTIONAL COMPONENT: not completely impossible for robots to develop