STS MIDTERMS 2.0

EUDAIMONIA

-Term by aristotle which refers to “good spirited”

-pinnacle of happiness that is attainable by humans

-Translated to as “human flourishing”

VERIFICATION THEORY

-idea proposes that a discipline is science if it can

be confirmed or interpreted in the event of an

alternative hypothesis being accepted.

FALSIFICATION THEORY

-Idea of Karl Popper

-as long as an ideology is not proven to

be false and can best explain a phenomenon over

alternative theories

Science as a Social Endeavor

a new school of thought on the proper demarcation criterion of science emerged.

HOMO ERECTUS

-Have been using fire to cook

-Discovered the laws of friction and heat

COMMON ERA

-They began hunting, farm, and produce things in order to gain profit

MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Argued that its essence, or purpose, and being are different from each other

PLATO

-He thought that the things in this world are not real and are the copies of the real in the world of forms

WORLD OF MATTER

Things are changing and impermanent

WORLD OF FORMS

The entities are only copies of the ideal and the models, and the forms are only real entities,

ARISTOTLE

He thought that there’s no reality over and above what the senses can perceive——this world is the only reality we can assess

ARISTOTLE

According to him every human person aspires for an end. This end is happiness or human flourishing.

HUMAN FLOURISHING

A kind of contentment in knowing that one is getting the best out of life

MATERIALISM

-The world is made out of atoms

-In terms of human flourishing, matter is what makes us attain happiness

HEDONISM

-Their end goal in life is attaining pleasure, because the life we live is limited

-”Eat, drink, be merry for tomorrow we die

STOICISM

The idea to generate happiness, one must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic (controlling emotions)

THEISM

The ultimate basis of happiness is the communication with god.

HUMANISM

The freedom of a man to carve his own destiny and to legislate his own flaws——free from shackles of god that monitors and controls