THY 1 Search for true happiness Week 6

Steve Javie

Former NBA referee who goes from hardwood to homilies, becoming a catholic deacon

hedonism

to seek pleasure is the primary reason of human behavior. hapiness equates to pleasure

Hedonist

it chases physical pleasure as gateway to what will satisfy inner longing

Hedonism

Pleasure may ranges form physical exhilaration to the material things which the world cunningly offers

materialism

these are the material possessions, success, and progress are the highest value in life.

materialism

this doctrine highly values the material reals and is opposed to intellectual and spiritual values

consumerism

believes that personal wellbeing and hapiness depends on a very large extent, on level of consumption, particularly on the purchase of material good

eudaimonism

the highest form of happiness

can be aquire through the practice of virtues

aristote

eudaimonism is acquired though virtues, for ____ these virtues are actions turned into good habits which lead a person to transcend his/her passion

Happiness as end

human beings have the power to determine what seems good for them and the power of free will to choose what is good they will seek and how they will go about obtaining them

st thomas

___asserts that human being are not so much paws who are pushed by the random events of their past as masters of their fates who are pulled by future goals of their own making

false happiness

st Thomas notes that "to desire happiness is nothing else than to desire one's will be satisfied. this is what everyone desire"

" all do not know happiness; because they know not in what the general notion of happiness is found"

Imperfect hapiness

hapiness while here on earth

perfect hapiness

consist of the beatific vision of the uncreated good in heaven

Augustine

________ "out hearts are restless until the rest in him"

john paul II

___ said happiness is associated with the meaning of life

St. Thomas Aquinas

He clarifies how rational beings differ from irrational beings in their pursuit of an end

John paul II

______"gods commandments show man the path of life and they lead to it"

5. You shall not kill

6. You shall not commit adultery.

7. You shall not steal.

8. You shall not bear false witness

9. You shall not covet your neighbors WIFE

10. you shall not covet your neighbors goods

10 commandment

1. I am the lord your god. you shall worship the lord your god and him only shall you serve

2.You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.

3. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

4. Honor your father and your mother.

- You shall not kill, You shall not commit adultery., You shall not steal., You shall not bear false witness

are all negative percepts which express with particular force the ever urgent need to protect human life.

Beatitudes

The ____respond to man's natural desire for happiness

Beatitudes

this desire is a devine origin. god placed it in the human heart in order to draw to man one who alone can fulfill it

beatitudes

these are more basic attitudes and dispositions than about particular rules of behavior

1st 3 beatitudes are dedicated to removing the obstacle

-blessed the poor in spirit
-blessed the meek
-blessed those that mourn

beatitudes that restrain and moderate the Irascible and concupiscible appetites respectively

-blessed the meek
-blessed those that mourn

second group - duty to serve your neighbor

-bless are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness

-blessed are the merciful

third group brings importance of living a completive life

-blessed are the pure hearts
-blessed the peacemaker

beatitudes

it does not suggest certain actions but correct dispositions and attitudes they remain necessary in forming our will to choose the good and return to god