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Lesson 3: The Good Life: Chapter 3: Science, Technology and Society and The Human Condition

1) The document discusses Aristotle's view of achieving a good life and happiness. It states that for Aristotle, happiness results from fulfilling one's human nature through practicing the virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. 2) It also discusses that while achieving goals like a family and career may not necessarily lead to happiness. True happiness involves bringing order to one's life and desires through reason. 3) The document poses the essential question of how much one can sacrifice to attain a good and satisfying life, suggesting some balance is needed between achieving goals and maintaining well-being.

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Lesson 3: The Good Life: Chapter 3: Science, Technology and Society and The Human Condition

1) The document discusses Aristotle's view of achieving a good life and happiness. It states that for Aristotle, happiness results from fulfilling one's human nature through practicing the virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. 2) It also discusses that while achieving goals like a family and career may not necessarily lead to happiness. True happiness involves bringing order to one's life and desires through reason. 3) The document poses the essential question of how much one can sacrifice to attain a good and satisfying life, suggesting some balance is needed between achieving goals and maintaining well-being.

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CHAPTER 3: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

AND THE HUMAN CONDITION

LESSON 3: THE GOOD


LIFE
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

For this lesson, the students will be able to:

[Link] what is meant by a good life,


[Link] how humans attempt to attain what
is deemed to be a good life; and
[Link] possibilities available to human
being to attain the good life.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

In what extent can you


sacrifice in order to achieve a
good and satisfying life?
MOTIVATIONAL ACTIVITY:

List ten (10) most important things in your life that


you can`t live without them. After which, erase one
thing at a time until it reached to only one (1).
Prepare a 30 seconds brief explanation of your
output. Ten (10) random students will be called to
share their ideas to the group.
LESSON PROPER

For Aristotle, morality is the study of good


life.

The good life includes:

1. Good choices
2. Good actions
3. Good habits
4. Good character
But what is “The Good”?

When a thing has a proper


operation, the good of the thing and
its well being consists in the
operation.
For example:
A good computer is one that operates as it
was designed to. It computes well.

A good saw operates as it was designed


to. It cuts well.
A good plant acts according to its nature
(functions well). Grows, reproduces and
nourishes itself.

A good dog functions according to its


animal nature: runs, senses, fetches
stick, barks, defend a house, etc.
Can you name other
examples?
ANALYSIS:

Is it possible for a person to achieve


everything that he has set out to achieve in life
and the end find himself unhappy?

Is it possible to have a wife/husband,


children, house and a good job, and at the
same time still be unhappy?
If your answer is YES on the first question, then
it does not follow that happiness is necessarily
doing what you want to do.

If your answer to the second question is YES,


then it does not follow that happiness is
necessarily having a wife/husband, children,
house and a good job.
For Aristotle, HAPPINESS results from the
fulfillment of one`s human nature.

And since one`s human nature is fulfilled


or perfected by the virtues, it follows
that:

Happiness is activity in accordance


with perfect virtue.
If happiness is the fulfillment of human nature,
what are the powers in human nature that
needs to be fulfilled?
Reason- power that distinguishes you from brute animals; power that
enables a person to think.

Will- not the same as feelings

The concupiscible appetite- the pleasure appetite

The irascible appetite- the aggressive appetite


Sometimes, the appetites rebel against reason.
For example:

The person who easily gives up when things become difficult.

The person who runs when there is danger.

The person who cannot hold a job because he has


no self control over alcoholic drinks.

The person who has no control over his sexual


appetite, and so can think of nothing other than
sex.
The good life (moral life) begins by
bringing order to one`s life.
Aristotle claims that HAPPINESS is the be all and end
all of everything that we do. We may not realize it but
the end goal of everything that we do is happiness.

Happiness, according to Aristotle means human


flourishing. It is a kind of contentment in knowing that
one is getting the best out of life.
Also, according to Aristotle, HAPPINESS is
goodness or virtue. If a person has cultivated the
virtues of PRUDENCE, JUSTICE, FORTITUDE and
TEMPERANCE, such a person is good. And a good
person is a happy person.
APPLICATION:

Going back to the ESSENTIAL QUESTION, write a


short and brief answer on a clean sheet of paper.
The students will be given five (5) minutes to
write their answer. All of the students will be
given to share their ideas to the class.

QUESTION:
In what extent can you sacrifice in order to
achieve a good and satisfying life?
EVALUATION

Answer the following questions. Submit your


answers on our Google Classroom. Answers
must be limited to 50 words only.

1. What is the good life?


2. What is the relationship between the good life
and science?
ASSIGNMENT:

Make an advance reading on the next topic, “When


Technology and Humanity Cross” page 84 on your
Science, Technology and Society book.

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