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Omapas, Justine Windy G.

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Arete
- Greek term which means “excellence of any kind”

- can also mean “moral virtue”

Eudaimonia
- Greek word eu meaning “good” and daimon meaning “spirit”.

- is what define the good life marked by happiness and excellence.

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Ethics
- system of moral principles.

- affect how people make decisions and lead their lives.

- concerned with what is good for individuals and society.

- also described as moral philosophy

Nicomachean
- Nicomachean ethics, particularly useful in defining what the good life is.

- goal is to determine how best to achieve happiness.

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Both should be in accordance with reason to achieve eudaimonia.

Intellectual Virtue
- or virtue of thought is achieved through education, time, and experience.

- key intellectual virtues: Wisdom (guides ethical behavior) and Understanding (gained form scientific endeavors and contemplation.) Both are achieved through formal and non-formal means.

Moral Virtue
- virtue that comes about as a result of habit.

- not innate.
- some key moral virtues: generosity, temperance, and courage.

- controlled by practical wisdom (ability to make right judgment).

- owed its development to how one nurtured it as habit.

- can be learned.

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Instrumental Good
- a thing that is good because it facilitates some other good.

- example: Money – allows us to buy the things that we need to live.

Ultimate Good
- also known/called Intrinsic good.

- a thing that is good for its own sake.

- example: Pleasure

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Pleasure
- may be good or bad.
- not the aim of every human action.

Happiness
– (eudaimonia) is virtuous activity, which is guided by the intellect and by reason.
- a quality of a whole life.
- unity of will and action.
- a fulfillment of the human soul.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY VS. THE GOOD LIFE

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY VS. THE GOOD LIFE

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Science and Technology
- S&T is also the movement towards good life.

- S&T are one of the highest expressions of human faculties.

- S&T allow us to thrive and flourish if we desire it.

- S&T may corrupt a person

- S&T with virtue can help an individual to be out of danger.

Good Life
- state of being happy.
- understood as happiness brought about by living a virtuous life.

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Virtue and Vice are two extreme concepts.

Virtue
- Acc. to Aristotle, it was a mean between two vices.

-  being the foundation of: self-disciplined, having good disposition, has good character developing, its initiative to cling to what is good or courtesy.

- the “good” qualities a person possess.

Vice
- the absence of virtue.
- does not lead happiness.

- experience bitterness and discomfort of life, and response with certain feelings/emotions.

- immoral or wicked behavior.
- consider as the “bad qualities”.

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