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HUMAN FLOURISHING IN TERMS OF

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY


TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
GENERATION GAP
•Attributed mainly to
the changes
brought about by
technology
THE HUMAN CONDITION BEFORE THE
COMMON ERA
• Our early ancestors’
necessity to survive
paved the way for
the invention of
numerous
developments
HOMO ERECTUS
• Used fire to cook
• Marked the era of
Stone Age
HOMO SAPIENS
• Humans began to
sharpen tools
THE HUMAN CONDITION IN THE
COMMON ERA
Holocene
extinction/
Anthropocene
extinction
NOTABLE EFFECTS OF
TECHNOLOGY
1.Mortality Rate
2. Average lifespan
3. Literacy Rate
4. Gross Domestic Product
SELECTED VIEWS ON
TECHNOLOGY
ARISTOTELIANISM

• “Technology as a
means to an end”
FOUR CAUSES
1. Causa Materialis
2. Causa Formalis
3. Cause Finalis
4. Causa Efficiens
TECHNOLOGICAL PESSIMISM
• Jacques Ellul
a. Technological progress
has a price
b. Technological progress
creates more problems
c. Technological progress
creates damaging effects
d. Technological progress
creates unpredictable Workingnation.com
devastating effects
TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIMISM

• Technology lessens
difficulties and
provides solutions to
problems that may
arise.

Thetechnologicalcitizen.com
EXISTENSIALISM

• Existence of someone
or something

Medium.com
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

• Technology as a
means to an end
and a human
activity
• “Technology is by
no means
technological”
Britannica.com
HEIDEGGER’S TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY
OF REVEALING

• “Poiesis”
• “Physis”
• The essence of
technology is
‘enframing”

Social-epistemology.com
123f.com Azocleantech.com
Shutterstock.com Geneticliteracyproject.org
Philstar.com
Pinterest.com
MODE OF REVEALING
• Unlock and expose
• Stock piles for future
use

Zenocentre.org
UNDERSTANDING HUMAN
FLOURISHING AND THE
GOOD LIFE
EUDAIMONIA
•“good”, “daemon”
– “spirit”
•Happiness
•“Nicomachean
Ethics”
•Human Flourishing
EPICURUS
• Balance and
temperance were
created space for
happiness
• Hedonism
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
• Happiness is an ideal
state of laziness
WEST VS. EAST
More focused More Community-centric
on the individual • Chinese Confucian System
• Japanese Bushido
THE GOOD LIFE

Positivepsychology.co
m
•“good” and “right”
•Martin Heidegger:
“Authentic life”
rather than “good
life”
MATERIALISM

•First materialist:
atomist in ancient
Greece
•The world is made
up of “atomos”
HEDONISM
•The goal of life is
acquiring pleasure
•“Eat, drink, and be
merry for tomorrow
we die”
STOICISM

•Minimising desires
and passions
EPICUREANISM

•“Anything taken in excess is bad”


THEISM
•The ultimate basis
of happiness for
theists is their
communication
with God
HUMANISM

•The freedom of
man to carve his
own destiny and to
legislate his own
laws, free from the
shackles of God
that monitors and
controls
1. It is believed that advancements in
technology have provided immense
improvement in our lives, but with a hidden
cost. How would you relate this to
Heidegger’s view on technology?
2. To what extent does scientific
advancements impact your idea of good
life?

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