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Lesson 7 The Good Life 2020

The document discusses Aristotle's concept of the good life. It explains that for Aristotle, the good life is achieved through eudaimonia, or human flourishing. Eudaimonia involves living virtuously through cultivating moral and intellectual virtues. Moral virtues are developed through habit, while intellectual virtues are developed through instruction. The ultimate goal is happiness, which Aristotle defines not as pleasure but as living and acting well. The document then discusses different philosophical views on achieving a good life, such as materialism, hedonism, stoicism, theism, and humanism. It raises questions about balancing ethics, technology, and the pursuit of a good life.

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Lesson 7 The Good Life 2020

The document discusses Aristotle's concept of the good life. It explains that for Aristotle, the good life is achieved through eudaimonia, or human flourishing. Eudaimonia involves living virtuously through cultivating moral and intellectual virtues. Moral virtues are developed through habit, while intellectual virtues are developed through instruction. The ultimate goal is happiness, which Aristotle defines not as pleasure but as living and acting well. The document then discusses different philosophical views on achieving a good life, such as materialism, hedonism, stoicism, theism, and humanism. It raises questions about balancing ethics, technology, and the pursuit of a good life.

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THE GOOD LIFE

HASSANAL PEUTO ABUSAMA, MAT


CTE SKSU-ACCESS
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Describe the idea of the good
life;
• Explain Aristotle’s concept of
eudaimonia and arete; and
• Investigate current issues and
come up with innovative and
creative solutions.
ABC Brainstorming
• Think of words that may connect to the concept of Good
Life. Fill out the ABC Boxes with the word you think has
links to the concept starting with the letter of the
alphabet.
LET’S WATCH A VIDEO
CLIP OF ARISTOTLE’S
THE GOOD LIFE
One must find the truth about
what the good is before one
can even try to locate that
which is good.
What does it really mean to
live a good life?

What qualities as a good


existence?
ARISTOTLE AND
HOW WE ALL ASPIRE
FOR A GOOD LIFE
Work includes natural
philosophy to logic and
political theory, and
attempted to explain what
good is.
Nicomachean Ethics 2:2
All human activities aim at some good. Every art
and human inquiry, and similarly every action and
pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for
this reason the good has been rightly declared
as that at which all things aim.
Aim = good
Good life = happiness

….both the many and cultivated call it


happiness, and suppose that living well and
doing well are the same as being happy.

Nicomachean Ethics 1:4


Eudaimonia is an ancient Greek word of the
concept of living well and doing well

Eu means good
Daimon means spirit
It is the activities that express
virtue that control
happiness,
and the contrary activities that
e.g. Eating healthy control its contrary.
food, Nicomachean Ethics 1:10
Taking care of the
environment

This requires discipline and practice.


Virtue
o constant practice of good
o excellence of character
Virtue comes about by choosing a mean
between vicious extremes according to the
right principle.

Intellectual virtues
Soul
Rational part Irrational part
Contemplative part Calculative part
(Intellectual) (Moral)

Deals with eternal Deals with the practical


truths of science and matters of human life.
mathematics. Right reasoning
Right reasoning corresponds to proper
corresponds to deliberation that leads to
truth. making the right choice.
Intellectual virtues = know what is just and
admirable.
= learn through instruction.
Knowledge is useless without action.

Moral virtues = do just and admirable deeds.


= learn through habit and practice.
“ Aristotle is telling us that having one’s heart in the
right place is not good enough: being a good person
requires a kind of practical intelligence as well as a
good disposition.
”
Is it possible to master intellectual virtue without moral virtue?
Is it possible to master moral virtue without intellectual virtue?
Virtue, then, being of two kinds, intellectual and
moral, intellectual virtue in the main owes its
birth and growth to teaching (for which reason it
requires experience and time), while moral virtue
comes about as a result of habit.

Nicomachean Ethics 2:1


Aristotle believes that all living things exist to fulfill
some telos, or purpose. This telos is determined
primarily by what makes that living thing distinctive.

Humans are distinctively rational animals, our telos


must be based in our rationality.
Aristotle claims that happiness is the
be all and end all of everything that
we do.
Aristotle actually means is human
flourishing, a kind of contentment in
knowing that one is getting the best
out of life. A kind of feeling that one has
maxed out his potentials in the world,
that he has attained the crux of his
humanity.
HAPPINESS AS THE
GOAL OF A GOOD
LIFE
JOHN STUART MILL
• Declared the Greatest Happiness Principle by
saying that an action is right as far as it maximizes
the attainment of happiness for the greatest
number of people.
• He said that individual happiness of each
individual should be prioritized and collectively
dictates the kind of action that should be
endorsed.
School of Thought which aims for the
Good and Happy life.
•Materialism
•Hedonism
•Stoicism
•Theism
•Humanism
MATERIALISM
• Democritus and Leucippus
• World is made up of and is controlled by the tiny
indivisible units in the world called atomos or
seeds.
• World and human beings is made up of matter.
• Matter is what it makes us attain happiness.
HEDONISM
• Epicurus
• See the end goal of life in acquiring pleasure.
• Lifeis about obtaining and indulging pleasure
because life is limited
• Does not buy any notion of afterlife just like
materialists.
HEDONISM

“Eat, drink, and be merry for


tomorrow we die”
STOICISM
• Epicurus
• To generate happiness, one must learn to distance
oneself and be apathetic. Apatheia, means to be
indifferent.
• Happiness can only be attained by a careful
practice of apathy.
STOICISM
• Adopt the fact that some things are not within our
control.
• The sooner we realize this, the happier we can
become.
THEISM
• God as a fulcrum of their existence.
• People base their life goals on beliefs that hinged
on some form of supernatural reality called
heaven.
• The ultimate basis of happiness is the communion
with God.
HUMANISM
• Freedom of man to carve his own destiny and to
legislate his own laws
• Free from the shackles of a God that monitors and
controls
• Man is literally the captain of his own ship
HUMANISM
• Scientists eventually turned technology in order
to ease the difficulty of life.
• Technology allows us to tinker with our sexuality
• The balance, however, between the good life,
ethics, and technology has to be attained.
So what then is the connection of
science and technology to
good life and virtue?

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