Krizyl May B.

Alda BSBA II- 5

GE 7
Ms. Chatty G. Maano
Reflective Essay / Summary
The Human Person Flourishing in Terms of Science and Technology

Human flourishing includes ability of one’s life, talents and virtue with a chosen values and
goals. It is accepting self-actualization with the righteous efforts. It also includes human individual
potentialities within the community that they are living.

Happiness has no accurate definition. In psychology, it is a state of well being which can be
defined as positive emotions to its highest level of intense joy. In Eudaimonia, Aristole described it the
pinnacle of happiness attained by humans. Euadaimonia is a greek work meaning God and Spirit to
describe ideology. We have learned that things around us hold potential when combined with other
things or when used in ways that these things are innately inclined to be used. Through time passionate
search, experiment or other accidentally encounters, a lot of things were discovered and we are
determined to use. Acquiring these will surely bring the seekers happiness, which allows them to
partake in the greater notion of what we call the Good.

People found means to live more comfortably, explore more places, develop more products,
and make more money. As time changes, elements that comprise human flourishing changed. Humans
of today are expected to become “man of the world”.

Working among institutions and the government to be able to reach a common goal, as time
changes, elements that comprise human flourishing changed. Competition as a means of survival and
coordination is the new trend. Innovation contributes to a human knowledge. Technology is a human
activity we excel in as a result of achieving science. Human’s perpetual needs to locate by his own by
finding histories and changes.
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Reflection Essay Summary

Good Life

Good life is the activity of human soul within the accordance of each virtue. Aristotle believed
that good for human is the maximum realization of what is real. Human should act vigorously and
showing a high moral of standard. Intellectual virtue are necessary requirements for the development of
intellectual virtue. Moral virtue is manipulated by pratical wisdom.

For Aristotle, the final end of human life is to flourish, to live well, to have a good life. All actions
should aim at this end. Of course, in order to live at all we need food, clothing, and shelter, but living is
itself the means to the end of living well. And what is living well a means to? Aristotle says that living
well is the final end for humans; it is not a means to anything else. Aristotle thinks this is obvious
because few people want to live poorly.

Aristotle calls good habits virtues or excellences. Virtues of the mind are intellectual virtues;
while virtues exemplified by a regular disposition to choose correctly are moral virtues. For Aristotle,
wisdom is the most important intellectual virtue but moral virtue plays a special role in living well. The
reason moral virtue—the habit of making the right choices—is so important is that our choices
determine whether we live well. And if we make too many bad choices we will live poorly.

Aristotle said, “Happiness depends on ourselves”. Happiness is one of the essential purpose of a
living person. It encompasses the edge of one’s life. It does not appear in a few seconds or less. It is not
something that can be achieved or disappeared.

If people construe the good life differently, if they have different desires, how can there be one
right plan for living well? How can there be one final end that we all ought to seek?