GOOD LIFE AND HUMAN FLOURISHING

WHAT IS GOOD LIFE?

 ARISTOTELIAN POINT

•FOR ARISTOTLE THE ULTIMATE GOOD IS EUDAIMONIA, A GOOD LIFE; A SENSE OF FULFILLED
AND WORTHWHILE LIFE

•INGREDIENTS FOR GOOD LIFE:

•MONEY AND SUCCESS
•PLEASURE
•RELATIONSHIP
•REASON AND VIRTUES
WHAT IS HAPPINESS?

•HAPPINESS IS HUMAN FLOURISHING IN GAINING

CONTENTMENT IN KNOWING ONE IS GETTING THE
BEST OUT OF LIFE.
MATERIALISM BY DEMOCRITUS AND
LEUCIPPUS

ONLY MATERIAL ENTITIES MATTER.

HEDONISM BY EPICURUS

•PLEASURE IS THE END GOAL OF LIFE

STOICISM BY ZENO AND OTHERS

•ONE MUST LEARN TO DISTANCE ONESELF AND

BE APATHETIC.
THEISM

•FINDING THE MEANING OF LIFE THROUGH A

SUPERNATURAL REALITY
 PERFECTIONISM
•TO PERFECT PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL WISDOM
•SPINOZA - RECOGNITION THROUGH SELF KNOWLEDGE OF OUR
INTERDEPENDENCE WITH NATURE OR GOD
•DEWEY – EXPERIENCE CAN CONTRIBUTE TO CONTINUOUS AND
PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT
ETHICS

•IDENTIFY THE GOOD AND THE RIGHT

JOHN STUART MILL : THE GREATEST HAPPINESS POSSIBLE

•AN ACTION IS RIGHT AS FAR AS IT MAXIMIZES THE

ATTAINMENT OF HAPPINESS FOR THE GREATEST
NUMBER OF PEOPLE
HUMAN FLOURISHING
•ADVANCEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY LEAD TO NOTABLE COMPARISON IN:
•MORTALITY RATE
•AVERAGE LIFESPAN
•LITERACY RATE
•GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
THE ESSENCE OF TECHNOLGY

•ARISTOTELIANISM VIEW OF TECH.

•- A MEANS TO AN END - IT WILL BE JUDGED EITHER
GOOD OR BAD BASED ON THE VALUE GIVEN TO THE
PRODUCT AND THE EFFECT ON SOCIETY
 MARTIN HEIDEGGER
•HE SEPARATED THE DEFINITION OF TECHNOLOGY AS
INSTRUMENTAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL.

•MARTIN HEIDEGGER'S TWO DEFINITION OF TECHNOLOGY

- A MEANS TO AN END
- A HUMAN ACTIVITY
INSTRUMENTAL DEFINITION OF TECHNOLOGY

•DUE TO THE ARRIVAL AT A DISCUSSION OF CAUSALITY, HE BELIEVES

THAT THESE INSTRUMENTS LEAD TO SOMETHING TO EXIST OR TO BE
CAUSED
ARISTOTLE'S FOUR CAUSES

•CAUSA MATERIALIS OR MATERIAL CAUSE

•CAUSA FORMALIS OR FORMAL CAUSE
•CAUSA FINALIS OR FINAL CAUSE
•CAUSA EFFICIENS OR EFFICIENT CAUSE
CAUSA MATERIALIS OR MATERIAL CAUSE

•THE MATERIAL OF WHICH THE OBJECT IS MADE OF.

CAUSA FORMALIS OR FORMAL CAUSE

•THE FORM OR THE SHAPE OF THE OBJECT THAT GIVES

IT'S IMAGE.
CAUSA FINALIS OR FINAL CAUSE

•THE PURPOSE OR THE PRIMARY USE OF WHICH AN OBJECT IS

MADE.
CAUSA EFFICIENS OR EFFICIENT CAUSE

•THE AGENT THAT HAS CAUSED FOR THE OBJECT TO COME ABOUT.
POIESIS

•THE "BRINGING FORTH" OF SOMETHING

•THIS IS CHARACTERIZED BY AN EXTERNAL FORCE
ENFRAMING

•THIS IS THE CONTINUOUS BRINGING FORTH INTO

UNCONCEALMENT THAT WHICH IS CONCEALED, OR THE
NON-STOP REVEALING
THE PURPOSE OF THE MODE OF REVEALING IN MODERN TECHNOLOGY

• UNLOCK AND EXPOSE

• STOCKPILE FOR FUTURE USE
UNLOCK AND EXPOSE

•IT CARRIES THE IDEA THAT NATURE WILL NOT REVEAL ITSELF
UNLESS CHALLENGE IS SET UPON IT
STOCKPILES FOR FUTURE USE

•STOCKPILES FOR FUTURE USE

AN EXAMPLE GIVEN BY HEIDEGGER ON THE DANGERS OF NON-
STOP REVEALING.

•“THE RISE OF A CAUSE-EFFECT UNDERSTANDING OF

REALITY CLOSES OF AN UNDERSTANDING OF GOD AS
SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS AND HOLY, GOD IS REDUCED
TO GOD OF THE PHILOSOPHERS"
THE DANGERS OF NON-STOP REVEALING.

•AS REVEALING MEANS OPENING UP OF SOMETHING MEANS A

CLOSING DOWN OF SOMETHING WHICH MEANS AS
SOMETHING IS REVEALED, ANOTHER IS CONCEALED