STS 101 FINAL EXAM COVERAGE

 An action is right as far as it maximizes the attainment of happiness for the greatest
number of people.
 Aristotle made it clear that the ultimate good is WORST than the instrumental good.
 As man evolved, information and its dissemination has also evolved in many ways.
 Because of the abundance of information, it was EASY to collect and manage them
starting in the 1960s and 1970s.
 Do not draw conclusions unless all ideas and information are presented to you.
 Fame and honor CAN BE GOOD in themselves.
 In the 1990s, information became the currency in the business world.
 Information is NOT a very important tool for survival.
 Intellectual virtues are acquired through self-taught knowledge and skills as much as
those knowledge and skills taught and learned in formal institutions.
 It is by repeatedly being unselfish that one develops the VIRTUE OF TEMPERANCE.
 Life is accompanied by endless transmission of information that takes place within and
outside the human body.
 One could draw parallels between moving toward the good life and moving toward
further progress and development in science and technology.
 One of the key intellectual virtues are WISDOM, which is gained from scientific
endeavors and contemplation.
 Pleasure does not encompass all aspects of life.
 Rumors, lies, disinformation, and gossips TRULY DIE DOWN.
 Science must be guided by some ethical basis that is not dictated by science itself.
 The good life in the sense of eudaimonia is the state of being happy, healthy, and
prosperous in the way one thinks, lives, and acts.
 The Information Age is a true new age based upon the interconnection of computers
via telecommunications.
 The information that reaches us is usually selected, verbally charged, filtered, slanted,
and sometimes, fabricated.
 The media sells what the culture buys. In other words, information is driven by cultural
priorities.
 Arête, a Greek term, is defined as "excellence of any kind" and can also mean "moral
virtue."
 Democritus and Leucippus led a school whose primary belief is that the world is made
up of and is controlled by the tiny indivisible units in the world called atomos or seeds.
 Eudaimonia, from the root words eu, meaning good, and daimon, meaning spirit.
 Intellectual virtue or virtue of thought is achieved through education, time, and
experience.
 It is by repeatedly exhibiting the proper action and emotional response in the face of
danger that one develops the virtue of courage.
 Wealth. Many aim to be financially stable, to be rich, or to be able to afford a luxurious
life.
 Theism. Most people find the meaning of their lives using God as a fulcrum of their
existence.
 Nutritive degree, all living things, i.e., plants, animals, and humans, require
nourishment and have the ability to reproduce.
 The lecture notes were compiled by or were dedicated to one of Aristotle's sons,
Nichomacus.
 The stoics espoused the idea that to generate happiness, one must learn to distance
oneself and be apathetic.
 A candidate of ultimate goof where many people seem to be motivated by a desire to
be known-to be famous. – Fame and honor
 Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, the fundamental basis of Aristotelian ethics, consists
of ten books.
 Humanism as another school of thought espouses the freedom of man to carve his
own destiny and to legislate his own laws, free from the shackles of a God that
monitors and controls.
 John Stuart Mill declared the Greatest Happiness Principle
 Moral virtue or virtue of character is achieved through habitual practice.
 One aims for pleasure in the food they eat or in the experiences they immerse
themselves into.
 Rational degree, only humans are capable of theoretical and practical functions.
 The mantra of this school of thought is the famous, "Eat, drink, and be merry for
tomorrow we die." - Hedonism
 The original term of apathetic, apatheia, precisely means to be indifferent.
 Unlike pleasure, wealth, fame, and honor, happiness is the ultimate good.
 Bioinformatics is the application of information technology to store, organize, and
analyze vast amount of biological data which is available in the form of sequences and
structures of proteins.
 Google is now the world's most popular search engine, accepting more than 200
million queries daily.
 Steve Jobs is the Founder and CEO of Apple
 In 1984, Apple Macintosh computer was introduced
 Personal Computer. It is a single-user instrument. PCs were first known as
microcomputers
 James R. Messenger who proposed the Theory of Information Age in 1982
 Several historians trace the origin of the Internet to Claude E. Shannon, an American
Mathematician who was considered as the "Father of Information Theory."
 Augusta Lady Byron wrote (in 1830s) the world’s first computer program.
 Personal Digital Assistants. These are tightly integrated computers that usually have
no keyboards but rely on a touch screen for user input.
 Wearable ComputersThey involve materials that are usually integrated into cell
phones, watches, and other small objects or places.
 Computers are among the most important contributions of advances in the Information
Age to society. A computer is an electronic device that stores and processes data
(information).
 Johannes Gutenberg (in 1455) invented the printing press using movable metal type
 Mark Zuckerberg is the Founder and CEO of Facebook.
 In 1946, the ENIAC computer was developed
 In 1971, Intel introduced the first microprocessor chip.
 Information Age defined as a “period starting in the last quarter of the 20th century
when information became effortlessly accessible through publications and through the
management of information by computers and computer networks"
 Server It refers to a computer that has been improved to provide network services to
other computers.
 The Internet is a worldwide system of interconnected networks that facilitate data
transmission among innumerable computers.
 Laptops. These are portable computers that integrate the essentials of a desktop
computer in a battery-powered package.
 This profound application of bioinformatics in genome sequence has led to a new area
in pharmacology-Pharmacogenomics.