Unit 5: Good Life

Aristotle

good life is one in which person cultivates and exercises their rational faculties by, for instance, engaging in scientific inquiry, philosophical discussion, artistic creation or legislation.

Socrates

The good life is a life that questions and thinks about things. It is a life of contemplation, self examination, and open minded wondering. The good life is thus an inner life, the life of an inquiring and ever expanding mind.

Plato

A good life, according to _ , involves living in harmony with one's inner nature and understanding the true nature of reality. To do this, one must overcome negative emotions such as anger and greed and embrace truth and knowledge.

Good Life

• Living in comfort and luxury with few problems or worries.

• Characterized by happiness and from living and doing well. 

• People have different ideas of what constitutes the good life. 

• Wrong pursuits may lead to tragic consequences.

Aristotle

• The first philosopher who approached the problem of reality from a “scientific” lens; and

• first thinker who dabbled into the complex problematization of the end goal of life

• Happiness, Virtue and Eudaimonia

Eudaimonia

• Refers to the good life marked by happiness and excellence.

Eudaimonia (2)

• Flourishing life filled with meaningful endeavors that empower the human person to be the best version of himself/herself.

 Good 

• Came from the Greek word “eu”

Spirit

• Came from the Greek word “daimon”

Virtue

• is a skill, a way of living, something that can only really be learned through experience.

Intellectual Virtue

• Are the excellence of thinking and use of reason. Such as the ability to understand, reason and make sound judgement.

Moral Virtue

• Are excellence in relating our reason to our appetites and desires, our feelings and emotions. Not innate, rather they are acquired through repetition and practice, like learning a music instrument

(1) Happiness

• Aristotle said that this depends on our self.

(2) Happines

• Central purpose of human life and a goal in itself.

(3) Happiness

• Depends on the cultivation of virtue.

(4) Happiness

• A genuinely happy life required the fulfillment of a broad range of conditions, including physical as well as mental well - being.

Moral Life

• is to be preferred to an immoral one, primarily because it leads to a happier life

Socrates on Happiness

• The key to happiness, he argues, is to turn attention away from the body and towards the soul. By harmonizing our desires we can learn to pacify the mind and achieve a divine-like state of tranquility

(5) Happiness

• Is the final end or goal that encompasses the totality of one's life. It's not something that can be gained or lost in few hours, like pleasurable sensations.

(6) Happiness

• It is more like the ultimate value of your life as live up to this moment, measuring how well you have lived up to your full potential as human being.

Nichomachean Ethics

• 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.

Science, Technology, and Life (S&T)

• is also the movement towards good life.

• are one of the highest expressions of human faculties.

• allow us to thrive and flourish if we desire it.

• with virtue can help an individual to be out of danger.

Ethics

• Is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with human conduct, more specifically the behavior of individuals in society. It examines the rational justification for our moral judgement, it studies what is morally right or wrong, just or unjust.

Ethics

• Derive from the Greek word “Ethos”

Ethos

• it means “way of living”

Ethics according to Aristotle

• The purpose of ethics is not to acquire a theoretical knowledge of the good. The goal of _ is not to inquire about the meaning of virtue, but to be able to practice it to realize the good life. The good life is eudaimonia or happiness - “the state of living well”

Ethical Standards

• It consists of standards on what a person could do so that his or her would resemble what is called "the good life". In other words, this involves on whether what they do is a good behavior or not.

Good Life, Innovation, and Ethics

• These three are related because we have thought of many ideas that helped aid the idea of a but of course, when thinking of a brand new we must never forget to not be unethical in thinking of something new. Having a _ is a mixture of being an _ and _ person.