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Consider the human person. When you try to
see yourself in front of the mirror, you normally
say and think that you are looking at yourself-
that is, you are the person who slept last night
and you are the same person looking at
yourself now, despite the occasional changes
like a new pimple that grows on your nose.
The same is true for a seed that you threw out
of the garden last month. When you peek into
the same patch of land where the seed
ingrained itself into, you may be surprised to
see a little plant showing itself to you and the
 For PLATO

Plato recognized PLATO, claims that

change as a despite the reality of
process and as a change, things
phenomenon that remain and they
happens in the retain their ultimate
world, that in fact, “whatness”
it is constant.
 For PLATO

For Plato, this can only

be explained by
postulating two
aspects of reality, two
world if you wish: the
“world of forms”
and the “world of
matters”
o In the “WORLD OF MATTER”
- Things are changing and impermanent.

o In the “WORLD OF FORMS”

- The entities are only copies of the ideal
and the models.

o And the “FORMS”

- Are the only real entities
Things are red in this world because they
participate in what it means to be red in the world
of forms.
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Aristotle, He disagreed O2 O3
with his As such, it is We, along
for his part. teacher’s only by with all other
observation of entities in the
position and the external
forwarded the world, start
world that one
idea that there can truly as
is no reality understand potentialities
over and above what reality is and move
what the all about. toward
senses can actualities.
perceive.
Aristotle extends this
analysis from the external
world into the province of the
human person and declares
that even human beings are
potentialities who aspire for
their actuality.
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Every action This end, we
that emanates Every have learned
from a human human from the
person is a person, previous
function of the according to chapters, is
purpose Aristotle, happiness or
(TELOS) that aspires for human
the person an end. flourishing.
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o The ETHICAL, meant to lead us
to the good and happy life.

o Through the ages, as has been

expounded in the previous
chapters, man has constantly
struggled with the external
world in order to reach human
flourishing.
MATERIALISM The first
O materialist were
the atomists in
1
Ancient Greece
DEMOCRITUS and
LEUCIPPUS led a school
whose primary belief is
O that the world is made up
of and is controlled by the
2 tiny indivisible units in
the world called “atomos
or seeds”
For Democritus and
O his disciple, the
world, including
3 human beings, is
made up of matter.
 Atomos simply comes
O together randomly to
4 form the things in the
world. As such, only
material entities matter.

O In terms of human
5 flourishing, matter
is what make us
attain happiness.
 HEDONISM

0
1

The mantra of this school

The Hedonist, for their
of thought is the famous,
part, see the end goal
“Eat, drink and be
of life in acquiring
0
pleasure merry for tomorrow
2 we die”
For them, life is about 0
3
obtaining and indulging
in pleasure because life
is limited.
S By Epicurus, the

APATHEIA
stoics espoused

T the idea that to

generate
-Means to be
O happiness,
must learn
one
to indifferent.
I
distance oneself
and be
apathethic. STOICISM
C We should, in
For the stoics,
I happiness can this
worldview,
S
only be attained
by a careful adopt the fact
that some
M practice
apathy
of
things are not
within our
 THEISM
Witness to how people The world where we are
base their life goals on in is only just a
beliefs that hinged on temporary reality
some form of where we have to
supernatural reality maneuver around while
called HEAVEN waiting for the ultimate
01 03 return to the hands of
God

02 04
Most people Ultimate basis of
find the happiness for
meaning of their theists is the YOU NEED TO ADD
YOUR OWN BULLET POINTS
lives using God COMMUNION
as a fulcrum of WITH GOD.
Espouses the freedom Humanists, see
of man to carve his themselves not
own destiny and to merely as
stewards of the
legislate his own laws,
creation but as
free from the shackles individuals who
of a God that are in control of
monitors and controls. themselves and
the world outside
HUMANISM them. of
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Scientist of today Now, communication
meanwhile are ready to between two people
confront more wherever they are, is
sophisticated attempts not just possible but
at altering the world for easy.
the benefit of humanity.

Some people now are willing

The Internet and smart
to tamper with time and
phones made real-time
space in the name of
communication
technology. Social media, as
possible not just
an example, has been so far a
between two people,
very effective of employing
but even with multiple
technology in purging time
simultaneously.
 Breast implants are now
available and can be
Technology allowed done with relative
us to tinker with our convenience if anyone
wishes to have one.
sexuality.

Biologically male Hormones may

individuals can now also be injected
undergo medical in order to alter
operation if they so wish
for sexual reassignment.
the sexual
chemicals in the
Whether or not
The balance,
we agree with
however,
these
technological between the
advancements, good life,
these are all ethics, and
undertaken in technology has
the hopes of to be attained.
 S U M M A RY

Man is
1
constantly in
pursuit of the
Throughout history, Every person has his
good life.
man has worked hard in
3 2 perspective when it
pointing out what comes to what comprises
amounts to a good, the good life.
happy life
The soul, as
the seat of o
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humanity, h s been the focur
of attentionas been the f us
of attention of this end goocaus
of this end g l
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 The only questions
At present, we at the end of the
see multitudes of
day is whether
schools of
The soul has to attain thought that all science is taking the
a certain balance in promise their right path toward
order to have a GOOD own key to attaining what it
LIFE, A LIFE OF FLOURISHING. finding really means to live
happiness. a good life.

It was only until the Science and

seventeenth century Technology has
that happiness
been, for the
became a
centerpiece in the most part, at
lives of people, even the forefront of
becoming a full- man’s attempts
blown ethical at finding this
foundation in John happiness.
 THE

GOOD Thank
LIFE you!
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Santella,
Rhovelene R.