1. The document discusses 4 lessons from a module that address concepts of human flourishing over time and how it has changed with technological advances.
2. It provides 10 true statements and 10 key terms for each lesson, with lessons addressing how human flourishing has evolved from Aristotle's original concept, the role of competition and coordination, and how technology has influenced economic growth perceptions.
3. The lessons also examine how science and technology have been part of human development since early humans, and how the goal of happiness has remained while perspectives have changed on what comprises "the good life."
1. The document discusses 4 lessons from a module that address concepts of human flourishing over time and how it has changed with technological advances.
2. It provides 10 true statements and 10 key terms for each lesson, with lessons addressing how human flourishing has evolved from Aristotle's original concept, the role of competition and coordination, and how technology has influenced economic growth perceptions.
3. The lessons also examine how science and technology have been part of human development since early humans, and how the goal of happiness has remained while perspectives have changed on what comprises "the good life."
1. The document discusses 4 lessons from a module that address concepts of human flourishing over time and how it has changed with technological advances.
2. It provides 10 true statements and 10 key terms for each lesson, with lessons addressing how human flourishing has evolved from Aristotle's original concept, the role of competition and coordination, and how technology has influenced economic growth perceptions.
3. The lessons also examine how science and technology have been part of human development since early humans, and how the goal of happiness has remained while perspectives have changed on what comprises "the good life."
Summary of the Lesson in Module 2. Lesson 10 True Statements 10 Terminologies 1 1. As time changes, elements that comprise 1. Eudaimonia human flourishing changed. 2. The Good 2. Our concept of human flourishing today 3. Man of the World proves to be different from what Aristotle 4. Human Flourishing originally perceived. 5. Phronesis 3. Human of today are expected to become a 6. The Truth “man of the world.” 7. Verification Theory 4. Competition as means of survival became 8. Falsification Theory passe; coordination is the new trend. 9. Empiricism 5. Every discovery, innovation, and success 10. Pseudoscience contribute to our pool of human knowledge. 6. Having a particular role, which is uniquely ours, elicits our idea of self-importance. 7. Technology is a human activity that we excel in as a result of achieving science. 8. A true eudaemon recognizes that flourishing requires one to excel in various dimensions. 9. Falsification theory asserts that as long as an ideology is not proven to be false and can best explain a phenomenon over alternative theories, we should accept the said ideology. 10. The economic perception of enrichment known as growth, is heavily fueled by technology, and should be impeded. 2 1. Generation gap is attributed mainly to the 1. Generation gap changes brought about by technology. 2. Technology 2. It cannot be denied that until today, not 3. Homo erectus everyone is comfortable using the different 4. Homo sapiens kinds of technologies. 5. Paleolithic Period 3. Most people who belong to the older 6. Stone Age generation think that these technologies are 7. The Holocene extinction too complicated to use. 8. The Good 4. Our early ancestor’s primal need to survive 9. Technological paved the way for the invention of several advancements developments. 10. The Good life 5. At the very least, the motivation to make things easier has been around since humans are. 6. Homo erectus has been using fire through chipping one flint over the other to produce a spark without realizing the laws of friction and heat. 7. Humanity has indeed come a long way from our primitive ways, it is said that we are more developed than we were before. 8. Modern Humans are reliant to technology in their search for good life. 9. Science and technology have been part of human activity since the beginning of our species. 10. In our pursuit of growth, we had conveniently forgotten that technology only presents one approach in viewing the world. 3 1. Science has been coined as the need to 1. Science understand the world and reality was bound 2. The Truth with the need to understand the self and the 3. World of forms good life. 4. World of matter 2. It was Aristotle who gave a definitive 5. Happiness distinction between the theoretical and 6. Materialism practical sciences. 7. Hedonism 3. The “good” is the end goal of the practical 8. Stoicism sciences. 9. Theism 4. The “truth” is the aim of the theoretical 10. Humanism sciences. 5. Aristotle is the first thinker who dabbled into complex problematization of the end goal of life which is happiness. 6. We all want to be happy. 7. We may not realize it but the end goal of everything that we do is happiness. 8. Technology allowed us to tinker with our sexuality. 9. The balance between the good life, ethics, and technology must be attained. 10. Every person has his perspective when it comes to what comprises the good life. 4 1. The growing society has made people see 1. Ethical dilemma/s technology as some form of necessity. 2. Robotics 2. The roles played by technology these days 3. Humanity are very crucial not only to a few but also to 4. Technological everyone. Advancements 3. Technology keeps on progressing due to the 5. The Internet ever-progressing mind of mankind. 6. “Necessities” 4. It is important to note that anything too much 7. “Responsibility” is bad, and it is the same problem faced by 8. Technology technology. 9. Gadgets 5. Various ethical dilemmas have been 10. Asimov’s laws identified throughout the time involving the use of various technological devices and its effects on humanity. 6. Filipinos are believed to have this big fascination for television. 7. It is important for the people of the scientific world to inform the masses of the dangers of technology. 8. Germany was one of the first countries to develop service robots. 9. The earliest robots can be traced around 3000 B.C. from the Egyptians. 10. Ethics should still be enforced in the field of technology so as to ensure the safety and morality of these devices to people.
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