Lesson 7: Human Flourishing in science and technology

HUMAN FLOURISHING

 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.
 Flourishing is “when people experience positive emotions, positive psychological
functioning and positive social functioning, most of the time,” living “within an
optimal range of human functioning.”
 ‘’good spirited ‘’ in classical Aristotelian notion.
 It is an effort to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment.
 Aristotle’s human flourishing arises as a result of the following components: phronesis,
friendship, wealth and power.
Eudaimonia