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SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
AND THE HUMAN
CONDITION
 OVERVIEW 2023

DEMARCATION OF
OBJECTIVES TOPIC OUTLINE HUMAN FLOURISHING
SCIENCE

TECHNOLOGY AND THE GOOD LIFE

REFINING SCIENCE HUMAN CONDITION

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 1. Critic human flourishing vis-à-vis
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its relevance to the development of

science
and technology.
2. Distinguish science from non-
OBJECTIVES science.
3. Discuss the theory of verification
and the falsification theory.
4. Describe how technology affected
the human condition.
5. Explain what is meant by a good life

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 1. Human Flourishing 2022

2. Demarcation of Science
from Non-Science
TOPIC a. Verification Theory
OUTLINE b. Falsification Theory
3. Technology and Human
Condition
4. The Good Life
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 1.What makes you happy? Anong 2022

nagpapasaya sa iyo?
2.Which matters to you more, health or
wealth? Anong mas mahalaga para sa
iyo, kalusugan o kayamanan?
3.What is your basis to say someone is
prosperous? Paano mo masasabi na ang
isang tao ay marangya o maunlad na
ang buhay?
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 eudaimonia(n.) 2022

"human flourishing"; a contented

state of being happy and healthy
and prosperous
ENGLISH I ORIGIN GREEK

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 EUDAIMONIA 2022

➢Greek (literally means, "good

spirited“) It is termed by Aristotle to
describe the highpoint of happiness
that can be attained by humans
➢often been translated into "human
flourishing" in literature likening
humans to flowers achieving their
full blooms.
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 EUDAIMONIA 2022

➢Aristotle's human flourishing arises

as a result of different components
such as phronesis or type of wisdom
or intelligence, friendship, wealth,
and power.

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FRIENDSHIP WEALTH

WISDOM HUMAN
POWER
FLOURISHING

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 EUDAIMONIA
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The very concepts of our happiness cannot be achieved

without science!

Wisdom is from
scientific refinements

Friendship is not possible

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 Wealth - is given birth through scientific
discoveries(metal, paper, plastics, etc.)
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Power - was developed through the

complexities of societal developments
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 Western and Eastern conceptions on
Societal and Human Flourishing 2022

EASTERN CONCEPTION• WESTERN CONCEPTION

✓ Community-centric ✓ Individual
✓ One should sacrifice ✓ Aims for eudaimonia as
himself for the sake of the ultimate goal
humanity ✓ Aristotelian views
✓ Chinese Confucian system ✓ Human flourishing as an
✓ Japanese Bushido views end and as the ultimate
the whole as greater than good.
their component
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 DEMARCATION OF SCIENCE FROM
NON-SCIENCE 2022

SCIENCE DEFINED:
According to the Science Council (2009),
Science is the pursuit and application of
knowledge and understanding of the natural and
social world following a systematic methodology
based on evidence.
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 To help us in determining what is and is not Science, the
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acronym “NOTTUS” can be used.

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 1. NATURAL: science seeks to explain the things found in
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the universe. Sometimes science uses chemicals or

resources to create human-made products (Plastics &
Polymers)

2. OBSERVABLE: through human senses or through tools

that help us observe what cannot be observed with
our senses alone (Telescope, Microscope, Radar, etc.).

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 3. TESTABLE: we can make predictions about how 2022

they will behave, change, or react and then test

these predictions using science methods. Tests in
science must be repeatable and predictable.

4. TENTATIVE AND TEMPORARY: corrections,

additional evidence, or contrary evidence may
change what we know.

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 5. UNCERTAIN: as evidence grows over time, 2022

science becomes more certain, but it never

attains 100 percent certainty.
E.g. Weather forecasts

6. SOCIAL: Science requires collaboration with

other scientists, communication of results with
one's peers, and presenting findings in journals,
presentations, and scientific conferences.
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 DEFINITION OF NON-SCIENCE, 2022

PROTOSCIENCE, AND PSEUDOSCIENCE

NON-SCIENCE PROTOSCIENCE
another part of human science that is emerging or near
knowledge that does not science in terms of conforming to
meet the characteristics of “NOTTUS”, however, it falls short
science in one or more ways

PSEUDOSCIENCE
false science that is positioned as science
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 REFINING SCIENCE 2022

Two main theories involved:

✓ Verification theory
✓ Falsification theory

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 Verification Theory 2022

✓ A discipline is science if it can be

confirmed or interpreted in the
event of an alternative hypothesis
being accepted
✓ Premium on empiricism•
Swans are white
✓ Takes into account those results which
are measurable and experiments which
are repeatable.
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 Falsification Theory 2022

✓Karl Popper
✓It does not promote ultimate adoption of one
theory but instead encourages research in order to
determine which among the theories can stand the
test of falsification. The strongest one is that which
is able to remain sustained amidst various tests,
while being able to make particularly risky
predictions about the world.
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Swans can be white or black

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 ✓As long as an ideology is not proven to be false and
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can best explain a phenomenon over alternative

theories, we should accept the said ideology.•

✓Allowed emergence of theories otherwise rejected

by the verification theory.•

✓Encourages research in order to determine which

among the theories can stand the test of
falsification.
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TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

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BCE CE
Survival
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Wealth 25
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 TECHNOLOGY 2022

Martin Heidegger ESSENCE/PURPOSE BEING

Means to achieve Constitutes man’s activity

man's goals Reveals a characteristics
design, or flaw of men in
Gives a clear idea each period
of what to expect
Allows humans to
out of technology confront the unknown and
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THE GOOD
LIFE
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 THE GOOD LIFE AS PERCEIVED BY 2022

DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT

Aristotle and the Good Life
Materialism
Hedonism
Stoicism
Theism
Humanism
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 Aristotle and the Good Life 2022

✓first philosopher who

approached the problem of
reality from scientific lens
✓the first thinker who dabbled
into the complex
problematization of the end goal
of life: happiness.
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 Aristotle and the Good Life 2022

Compared to his predecessor and teacher,

Plato, Aristotle embarked on different
approach in figuring out reality, Plato
thought that things in this world are not
real and are only copies of the real in the
worlds of forms. While Aristotle puts
everything back to the ground in claiming
that this world is all there and that this
THW GOOD LIFE world is the only reality we can all access.
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SCHOOLS OF PHILOSOPHERS BELIEF
THOUGHT 2022

Materialism Leucippus & Comfort, pleasure and wealth are

Democritus the only highest goals

Hedonism Epicurus Life is limited, one must indulge

itself with pleasures –Eat, drink
and be merry for tomorrow we die
Stoicism Zeno of Citium Virtue happiness and judgement
should be based acts on behavior
Marcus Aurelius than words; practical application
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SCHOOLS OF PHILOSOPHERS BELIEF
THOUGHT
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Theism Ultimate happiness is communion with
God. Find the meaning of their lives by
using God as the creator of their
existence
Monotheism & polytheism
Humanism International Human beings have the right and
Humanist Ethical responsibility to give meaning and
Union shape their own lives
-stewards of creation but as individuals
who have control
for themselves as well as the world
outside them
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THANK YOU!
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