HUMAN FLOURISHING INTELLECTUAL VIRTUES

ARISTOTLE ➢ Reason out properly

➢ Most important and last philosopher ➢ Abilities, talents, human potentials
➢ Political philosophizing FIVE INTELLECTUAL VIRTUES
➢ Alexander the Great’s tutor COMPETITIVE REASONING
➢ Wants to create a create a philosophical system SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, INTUITION AND WISDOM
that can rescue knowledge and provide grounds ➢ Detached from human affairs
for moral beliefs – not simply subjective, relative ➢ Long series of research to gain knowledge
or culture CALCULATIVE
➢ Creates system of knowledge and morality that ART OR TECHNICAL SKILL AND PRUDENCE
synthesize empirical and logic ➢ Helps us make our way in the world
EMPERICAL ➢ Objective truths
➢ Knowledge of the world HUMAN FLOURISHING AND S&T
➢ Observation ➢ Human flourishes and finds meaning in the world
LOGIC she builts
➢ Reasoning about the world ➢ Human unconsciously acquire consume or destroy
➢ Strict principle what the world has to offer
➢ Moral scientist ➢ We need to reflect and mediate about the
➢ Opens lyceum (school/university) knowledge we use and develop
➢ Believed that humans wanted to know about the SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
world ➢ Must be part of human life that needs reflective
➢ Things has a purpose and meditative thinking
➢ Humans have natural purpose, capacity or end ➢ Must be examined for their impact on humanity
➢ Use facts and evidence(objective) REFLECTIVE THINKING (IGI GLOBAL)
EUDAIMONIA ➢ Inquiry by John Dewey (pragmatism)
➢ Good spirited ➢ Requires to have a positive attitudes about
➢ Pinnacle of happiness attainable by humans personal growth and moral
➢ Human flourishing development(Rodgers,2002)
ARISTOTLE’S THREE KIND OF KNOWLEDGE MEDITATIVE THINKING (IGI GLOBAL)
THEORETICAL ➢ Thinks the truth of being that belongs and being
➢ Speculative metaphysics listened to
➢ theology ➢ Heidegger- we are in flight;not focused on the
PRODUCTIVE utility but on the meaning
➢ how to do HUMAN FLOURISHING IS THE ABILITY TO LIVE A GOOD
PRACTICAL LIFE
➢ actual ➢ Embraces our shared humanity
➢ ethics, politics ➢ Values heath intrinsically and applies universally to
EUDEMIAN ETHICS human
➢ end of human nature is flourishing. WAYS TO DEVELOP OUR ABILITIES TO FLOURUSH
➢ flourishing INDIVIDUALLY
VIRTUE ETHICS 1. Committed to growing within, developing supportive
➢ Greek word arete means excellence. and cultivating environment that form our capabilities
MORAL PHILOSOPHY 2. Believing in ourselves and abilities
➢ Achieve excellence 3. Knowing about our health and how to be healthy
➢ Nothing in excess 4. Self motivated to achieve goals that we and the
➢ Reason to achieve balance in this quality of society value
excellence COMMUNITY
HAPPINESS 1. Contribute collaborately;support
➢ Life of excellence systems,institutions,resources and norms that help us
VIRTUE flourish
➢ Quality that we admire 2. Be surrounded and supported by strong
PHILOSOPHY OF REASON systems,institutions,resources and norms that help us
➢ Importance reality,reason and logic in Aristotelian flourish
philosophy enabled scie and tech to develop and THE GOOD LIFE
flourish (younkins 2003) THE NICHOMADEAN ETHICS AND MODERN CONCEPTS
FLOURISHING NICHOMACHEAN ETHICS
➢ State where people experience positive emotions, ➢ Fundamental basis of Aristotelian ethics
psychological and social functioning ➢ 10 books
➢ “living” within an optimal range of human ➢ Lecture notes written on scroll when he taught at the
functioning Lyceum
➢ Kabaliktaran is existential crisis ➢ Compiled or were dedicated to one of Aristotle’s son(2
HUMAN FLOURISHING wife;Phytias and Herpyllis:Herpyllis=Nichomachus)
➢ Effort to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment ➢ Believed that it was dedicated to Aristotle’s father
within larger community 10 BOOKS
➢ Right to pursue his or her own such efforts 1. THE END
MORAL VIRTUES 2. MORAL VIRTUE
➢ Behave in a correct manner 3. THE WILL
➢ Doing what is right

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 4. THE SEVERAL MORAL VIRTUE AND VICES(1ST MARTIN HEIDEGGER
BOOK) ➢ Essence and purpose differs
5. THE SEVERAL MORAL VIRTUE AND VICES, ➢ True can be pursued thru correct only
JUSTICE (1ST BOOK) ➢ Mode of bringing forth
6. THE INTELLECTUAL VIRTUE ➢ We must undertake reflection and meditative
7. CHARACTERS OTHER THAN VIRTUE AND VICES thinking to determine what is important
8. FRIENDSHIP OR LOVE ➢ We must examine not only their use but also
9. FRIENDSHIP OR LOVE greater impact in order to appreciate the benefits
10. PLEASURE of scie and tech
ULTIMATE/INTRINSIC GOOD BRINGING FORTH
➢ Value is itself ➢ Revealing something that didn’t exist before
➢ HAPPINESS POIESIS
INSTRUMENTAL/EXTRINSIC GOOD ➢ Bringing something out of concealment
➢ To know the value of something, action is needed ➢ Production
to reveal it ALETHEIA
➢ Money and Justice ➢ Truth is the most important
ARISTOTLE’S TRIPART SOUL ➢ Disclosure
NUTRITIVE TECHNE
➢ all living ➢ Episteme: ability to make and perform
➢ Reproduce ➢ Art:tangible intangible
SENSITIVE ➢ Greeks: acts of mins and poetry
➢ Animals and humans TECHNOLOGY AS POIESIS
➢ Move ➢ Not a bringing forth but a challenging forth
RATIONAL CHALLENGING FORTH
➢ Humans ➢ Reduces objects as something to be disposed by
➢ Theoritical and practical those who enframe them(humans)
THE GOOD LIFE:ARETE ➢ Depends ond different reality and own theories
➢ Arete- greek word ENFRAMING AS MODERN TECHNOLOGY’S WAY OF
➢ Excellence of any kind REVEALING
➢ Moral virtue CALCULATIVE THINGKING
INTELLECTUAL VIRTUE ➢ Objective judgement
➢ Education, time and experience ➢ Put an order to better undertand and control
MORAL VIRTUE MEDITATIVE THINGKING
➢ Habitual practice ➢ Subjective judgement
EUDAIMONIA ➢ Allow nature to reveal itself without force or
➢ EU-GOOD violence
➢ DAIMON-SPIRIT OR ULTIMATE GOOD ➢ Go with the flow
HAPPINESS AS THE GOAL OF THE GOOD LIFE THE DANGERS OF TECHNOLOGY
MATERIALISM ➢ How humans let themselves consume by it
➢ Does material things make u happy? ➢ Responsibility is to recognize how they become
MATERIAL MATTER instruments of technology
➢ Only thing in our reality that truly exist PAULO COELHO
DEMOCRITUS AND LEUCIPPUS ➢ “it is boastful for humans to think that nature
➢ First materialist needs to be saved, whereas Mother Nature would
HEDONISM remain even if human cease to exist”
➢ Are u a happy go lucky person? ➢ The alchemist
➢ Own pleasure ART AS THE SAVING POWER
EPICURUS FRIEDRCH HOLDERLIN
➢ Epicureanism -school of philosophy ➢ “But where danger is, grows the saving power also”
STOICISM ➢ Heidegger proposed art as the saving power and
➢ Events which surprisingly happened out of plans the way out enframing: “and art was simply called
➢ Zeno of Citium; 3rd Century BCE techne. It was a single manifold revealing.”
➢ Courage, Temperance, Justice QUESTIONING AS THE PIETY OF THOUGHT
THEISM ➢ Piety, according to Heidegger, means obedience
➢ Meaning of life using God as center of existence and submission
➢ Ultimate reality is God ➢ “The closer we come to the danger, the more
HUMANISM brightly do the ways into the saving power begin
➢ We make our own destiny to shine and the more questioning we become.
➢ Are u happy with the life u have? For questioning is the piety of thought”.

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

THE ESSENCE OF TECHNOLOGY
INSTRUMENTAL DEF
➢ Means to an end
ANTHROPOLOGICAL DEF
➢ Human activity

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WHEN TECHNOLOGY A ND HUMANITY CROSS HUMANS VS ROBOTS
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN THE SOCIETY HUMANS
➢ Artificial intelligence ➢ Adaptation
➢ Cognitive computing- alexa and siri ➢ Speech recognition
➢ Internet of Thing ➢ Thinking, planning and decision making
➢ Nanobots- nanorobots ➢ Intellect
➢ Wearables- virtual reality ➢ Spontaneity
➢ Human genome editing- prolong life of babies ➢ Creative thinking
➢ Mega Ships- data fication ROBOTS
➢ Brain- computer interfaces ➢ Logical ability
➢ Data is the new oil- Olive Humby (British ➢ Speed
Supermarket) ➢ Accuracy
HUMAN IN A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD ➢ Efficiency
➢ Augmented by algorithms DECLARATIONOF HUMAN RIGHTS
2027 RIGHTS(STANFORD ECNYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY
➢ Computers can match capacities of human brain ➢ Entitlements to perform actions in certain states
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES ➢ Entitlements of others to perform actions in certain
1. INTELLIGENCE EXPLOSION states
➢ More dangerous than nuclear weapons ➢ modern understandingof what actions are
2. CAREERS WILL BE AUTOMATED permissible and intuitions are just
3. OVERCONNECTED HUMAN RIGHTS
4. SINGULARITY ➢ Civil and political
➢ Machines will equal and surpass humans in ➢ Document that gives freedom to achieve what they
brainpower deserve and need
5. DIGITAL ADDICTION AND UTTER DEPENDENCY ➢ Inherent to human beings
4TH IR VS 5TH IR (SONDH, 2021) TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AND HUMAN RIGHTS
4TH IR ➢ Automation and rights to fair and decent work
➢ Artificial intelligence o use of ai and it disrupts global job markets
➢ Big Data ➢ internet and right to freedom of expression
➢ Internet of Things o fake news
➢ Human competing with robots for job ➢ The internet of things and right to privacy
5th IR o giving away private data without realizing it
➢ Same system THREE WAYS TECHNOLOGY CAN PROTECT HUMAN
➢ Incorporate greater human intelligence RIGHTS
➢ Balanced working between increasingly smart tech ONLINE LEARNING AND RIGHT TO EDUCATION
and humans ➢ tech as a major asset to ensuring a quality educ for
➢ Humans collaborate with robots(cobots- all
collaborative robots BIG DATA AND HUMAN RIGHTS
➢ Human centeredness, sustainability and concerned ➢ can use data to analyze key trends and provide
for the environment early warning for critical issue before they occur
DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ➢ prevention and rapid response to humanitarian
ADAPTIVE AND ENGAGING TECHNOLOGIES disasters
➢ Human needs and values at personal organizational PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS IN SUPPLY CHAIN
and societal levels ➢ BLACK CHAIN- authentication than can enable
➢ Adapt functionality to maximize needs and values transparency from sourcing through costumer
➢ Human engagement- for successful adoption and purchase
diffusion THE GOOD FUTURE
5TH IR – CREATIVITY MUS MEET TECHNOLOGY HUMAN INGENUITY
PERSONALIZATION WITH BIG DATA AT ITS HEART ➢ Science and tech will solve our long-standing
➢ Key driver in transforming online shopping problem
➢ Beauty and skin care blends are generated with ➢ Human kindness and the ability to collaborate will
small 3d printer prevail
ECOMMERCE DEFINING WHAT IS GOOD
➢ Business have to think and find means to connect PROSPERING
with consumers ➢ Having more things
HUMAN EQUIVALENT ➢ Other people,experiences and relationships
ANDRA RYTHMS PURPOSE
➢ Things that make us human ➢ What u are living for
1. COMPASSION - empathy RIGHT DECISIONS NOW
2. ETHICS – behavior in society ➢ Need to think wider- beyond profit and growth
3. MYSTERY ➢ Think about the planet, people,purpose and
4. DESIGN prosperity
5. MORAS – right and wrong ➢ Different logic so that the future can be good and
6. VALUES - right and wrong in society level developed for all of us
HOW CAN A HUMAN PERSON FUNCTION IN GOOD FUTURE
TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY? FOOD
➢ How past tech changed human existenceand how ➢ Sustainable and healthy
future tech may impact humans and society

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ENERGY ➢ Beginning in the last quarter of 2000 marked by the
➢ Hydro and geothermal 26% increased production, transmission, consumption of
➢ Solar, wind turbines,renewable energy,next and reliance on information
generation nuclear ➢ Vast availability of information
EDUCATION HISTORY OF INFORMATION AGE
➢ Lifelong learning 300 BCE
➢ All formats at very low cost ➢ Sumerian hieroglyphics
WORK ➢ Clay tablets
➢ Ultimate job is to be human POST GUTENBERG
HEALTHCARE ➢ Computer and internet
➢ Keeping people healthy TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS
➢ Connected, costumized, personalized and Internet
affordable real healthcare not just sick care Worldwide web – digital element to a live view
WHAT TO DO TO CREATE GOOD FUTURE Crowd Sourcing- virtual
1. Markets have to embrace this idea of a wider Driverless car – replaces real life simulation
target of a wider goal of things we want to
Virtual and Augmented Reality
accomplish. And to be rated on four issues:
Mobile Communications
people, planet, purpose and prosperity.
Online media- social media
2. A story of the future had to be told by people – not
Cyberspace
by technology companies, who are inventing the
Artificial Intelligence
future
Big Data Y- came from many sources
3. Every politician or public official to have a driver’s
DIGITAL SOCIETY’S CULTURE
license for the future – to understand it, to plan it
➢ A network whose outlines allow exploring how
to be ready for it, to lead us to a great future.
individual’s behavior create sustainable long
4. Need a council of wise people – to talk about how
lasting patterns.
could we exist in a new world
➢ Degenerates and disrupts social life
ITS UP TO US!
➢ Digital technology as
➢ Believe that it is possible to have a good future
pharmakon(drug/medication – Greek term
➢ Develop a future ready mindset
o cure and poison provides more
o Good future has to be a priority for us
opportunities to human culture but also
o learn and study
has destructive powers
o spend one hour a day in the future to help
WEB PRESENCE (LEVIN & MAMLOK, 2021)
create it.
➢ Refers to the shift of human’s presence as
➢ Make choices wisely
perceived in hyperconnectivity times
o do not give your data to companies who can
TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE DIGITAL SOCIETY
abuse it
➢ Blurring the distinction between reality and
➢ We have to be good – possible
virtually (dualism)
DOES THE FUTURE NEEDS US?
o requires reinvigorating different ways of
thinking
➢ 21st Century technologies are threatening to make
➢ Blurring the distinctions among people, nature
humans an endangered specie
and artifacts
o all work will be done by vast, highly organized
o manifested by integration of AI into almost
systems of machines and no human effort will
every domain of life
be necessary.
➢ The reversal from information scarcity to
➢ attitude toward the new
information abundance
o in our bias toward instant familiarity and
VIRTUAL PERSONALITY
unquestioning acceptance
➢ A network personality in cyberspace and includes
➢ The 21st-century technologies are so powerful that
complex interactions with diverse network
they can spawn whole new classes of accidents and
personalities and communities.
abuses.
➢ May be significantly differenf from habitual “real
➢ Technological elite that will develope to build a
personality”
scientific dictatorship
PERSONAL IDENTITY ONLINE
HOW DO WE RETAIN HUMAN CONTROL IN
➢ a concept that elucidates how a person present
TECHNOLOGY
oneself in cyberspace.
➢ be cautious and become responsible as regards the
➢ Wu Yongning
use of technology
SOCIAL MEDIA
➢ think about actions that has to be taken so that
➢ forms of electronic communication through
technology will still be controlled by people and
which users create online communities to share
destinction of human life though technology will not
information, ideas, personal messages and other
happen.
content (Merriam-Webster)
THE INFORMATION AGE
SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT
DEFINITION(IGI GLOBAL)
➢ Includes comments, follows, shares (retweets)
➢ Larger amount of information are widely available
and clicks on a shared link
through network platforms
➢ Rapid creation and global transfer of information
through mass communication that contribute to the
globalization of knowledge

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