Colegio de San Gabriel Arcangel

PACUCOA Accredited – Level 1 Status

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT City of San Jose del
Monte, Bulacan

LEARNING ACTIVITY 6
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Activity Title : The Human Person flourishing in terms of science and

technology
Learning Target : I can analyze the human condition in order to deeply reflect and
express philosophical ramifications that are meaningful to
the student as a part of society.
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Discussion:

Flourishing is "a state where people experience positive emotions, positive psychological
functioning and positive social functioning, most of the time," living "within an optimal range
of human functioning." In context, human flourishing is defined as an effort to achieve self-
actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals, each
with the right to pursue his or her own such efforts. It encompasses the dignity, diversity,
freedom, happiness, and the holistic well-being of the individual within the larger family,
community, and population. Achieving human flourishing is a life-long existential journey of
hopes, achievements, regrets, losses, illness, suffering, and coping.

Human flourishing must be achieved through a person's own efforts. Each person has
reason and free will and the capacity to initiate conduct that will enhance or inhibit his
flourishing. Rationality, the cardinal virtue for human flourishing, can only gain expression
when a man has responsibility for his own choices. Human Flourishing, or eudaimonia, is
best achieved by a life of virtuous activity in accordance with reason gained thru tedious
immersion to truth, facts, and knowledge which are the main agenda of science and
technology. The virtuous person takes pleasure in doing the right thing as a result of a
proper training of moral and intellectual character.

In the long run, flourishing can equate to happiness. Happiness can be viewed as a
result and a condition of living right. Flourishing is distinct from, but related to,
happiness. Success in living makes people happy and this happiness tends to foster
more success. Happiness is linked to the notions of self-esteem and flow. According to
Aristotle, happiness consists in achieving, through the course of a whole lifetime, all the
goods — health, wealth, knowledge, friends, etc. — that lead to the perfection of human
nature and to the enrichment of human life.

Science and technology change us—and the world around us—in countless ways. It
eases our labor, cures diseases, provides abundant food and clean water, enables
communication and travel across the globe, and expands our knowledge of the natural
world and the cosmos. Thus, the criteria to achieve flourishing now differs from the day
before. To fully achieve eudaimonia, one should deeply immerse in science to know the
ins and outs of the new world. Knowledge is the key in knowing how to navigate thru
these times, and how to fully utilized one’s potential to achieve self-actualization.

Activity:

1. Is said the in these times, lacking knowledge can be detrimental in one’s pursue
of true happiness. However, others argue that the lesser you know, the lesser the
burden and anxiety and that ‘ignorance is bliss.’ Which of the two do you adhere
to?

in one’s pursue of true happiness ‘ignorance is bliss’ is the one that I can adhere to
because as long as if you do not know about something, you do not worry about it.