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STS and The Human Condition

The document discusses the relationship between science, technology, and the human condition. It aims to teach students to understand how technology can affect humans and the importance of human flourishing. The document outlines 4 lessons that will define human flourishing, compare western and eastern views of it, and discuss how technology and humanities intersect. It provides context on Aristotle's view of happiness as a journey of self-improvement rather than a destination.

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STS and The Human Condition

The document discusses the relationship between science, technology, and the human condition. It aims to teach students to understand how technology can affect humans and the importance of human flourishing. The document outlines 4 lessons that will define human flourishing, compare western and eastern views of it, and discuss how technology and humanities intersect. It provides context on Aristotle's view of happiness as a journey of self-improvement rather than a destination.

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STS and the Human

Condition
Overview
Objectives

At the end of the lesson the students should able to:


1. Define and explain the essence of technology.

2. Understand the human condition and analyze the effects of science


and technology to this condition.

3. Perceive the danger of the controlling power technology has over


human.
Parts

Lesson No. Title


1 The Human Flourishing
2 Technology as a Way of Living
3 The Good Life
4 When Technology and Humanities Cross
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this lesson, you
should be able to:
Lesson 1: 1. define human flourishing;
The Human 2. differentiate western and
Flourishing easter philosophy about
human flourishing;
3. cite the importance of
Human Flourishing.
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women
merely players;
They have their exits and
entrances, and one man in
his time plays many parts…
- William Shakespeare
Flourishing
• The highest good of human attempt to achieve his/her goal.
Aristotle

Philosopher

Born in Greece.

Lived from 384 BC to 322 BC.

Eudaimonia
“good spirit”
Activity: Aristotle Asks
Is happiness a destination
or a journey?
• The hedonistic view of well-being is that happiness is the
opposite of suffering; the presence of happiness indicates
the absence of pain.

• Eudaimonia, a term that combines the Greek words for


"good" and "spirit" to describe the ideology. Eudaimonia
defines happiness as the pursuit of becoming a better
person.
Ancient
Greeks’
Human
Flourishin
g
Aristotle’s Human Flourishing
 The good of each species is the
finality existing to each species.

 One’s life is the only life that a


person must live.

 Each person is responsible for


his/ her own personal happiness
and well-being.
Science, Technology and
Human Flourishing
 Every discovery, innovation, and success contributes to our pool
of human knowledge.
 Human’s perpetual need to locate himself in the world by
finding proofs to trace evolution.
 Elicits our idea of self-importance.
 Technology is a human activity we excel in as a result of
achieving science. (Heidegger)
 Good is inherently related to the truth.

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