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The document discusses different philosophical views on attaining a good life and happiness. It examines Aristotle's view that happiness is the ultimate goal and end of human flourishing. It then outlines several other perspectives on how to attain happiness, including through materialism by acquiring wealth, hedonism by seeking pleasure, stoicism through practicing detachment and virtue, theism by communing with God, and humanism by exercising free will. The main stoic philosophers discussed are Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca. The document provides an assessment to evaluate readers' understanding.

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Sts Finals Good Life

The document discusses different philosophical views on attaining a good life and happiness. It examines Aristotle's view that happiness is the ultimate goal and end of human flourishing. It then outlines several other perspectives on how to attain happiness, including through materialism by acquiring wealth, hedonism by seeking pleasure, stoicism through practicing detachment and virtue, theism by communing with God, and humanism by exercising free will. The main stoic philosophers discussed are Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca. The document provides an assessment to evaluate readers' understanding.

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The Good Life

Lesson Objectives

Examine what is meant by a good life.


Identify how humans attempt to attain
what us deemed to be a good life.
Recognize possibilities available to human
being to attain the good life.
Aristotle and How we all aspire for a
good life.
 Plato and Aristotle embarked on a different approach
figuring out reality.
 Plato thought that things in this world are not real and
are only copies of the real in the world of forms. Change
is so perplexing that it can only make sense if there are 2
realities: The world of Forms and The World Of Matter
 The World of Matter, things are changing and
impermanent.
 The World of Forms, The entities are only copies of the
ideal and the model, and the forms are only real entities.
Aristotle forwarded the idea that there is no reality over and
above what the senses can perceive, claiming that this world is
all there is, all there's is to it and that this world is the only reality
we can all access.

 Declares that even human beings are potentialities who aspire for their
actuality.
 Every action that emanates from a human person is a function of the
purpose(telos) that the person has.
 Every human person according to Aristotle, aspires for an end. This end
is happiness or human flourishing.
 Claims that happiness is the be all and end all of everything that we
can do.
 Human flourishing, a kind of contentment in knowing that one is
getting the best out of life.
Happiness As A Goal Of Life
❖ Materialism
 The first materialist were the ATOMISTS in ancient Greece
 DEMOCRITUS AND LEUCIPPUS belief is that the world is
made up of and controlled buy the tiny invisible units in the
world called ATOMOS or SEEDS
 For Democritus and his disciple, the world including human
beings is made up of matter.
 Only material entities matter, In terms of human flourishing
mater is what make us attain happiness.
❖ Hedonist
The hedonist, for their part, see the end goal of life in
acquiring pleasure.
Life is about obtaining indulging in pleasure because
life is limited.
The mantra of this school of thought is the famous
“Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die”.
The idea that to generate happiness, one must learn
to distance oneself and be apathetic.
❖ Stoics
For the stoics, happiness can only be attained by a
careful practice of apathy
Main 3 Big Stoics

❖ Epictetus ❖ Marcus Aurelius ❖ Seneca


 Born as a slave in 50 A.D Rome,  Marcus Aurelius was Emperor  Seneca was a writer
Epictetus gained his freedom and of Rome from 161-180 A.D he advisor and Rome's
went on to teach stoics in Athens. kept a personal journal for self Leading intellectual figure
His lecture notes were later improvement and moral in 50 A.D He is well known
published as discourses and guidance. Has journal was for his morally guiding
enchidron. published as meditations letters to luculias.
❖ Theism
 The ultimate basis of happiness for theist is the communion with GOD.
 The Worlds here we are in is only just temporary reality where we have to
maneuver around while waiting for the ultimate return to the hands of
GOD.
❖ Humanism
 The freedom of man to carve his own destiny and to legislate his own
laws, free from the shackles of a God that monitors and Controls.
 Humanist see themselves not merely as stewards of the creation but as
individuals who are in control of themselves and the worlds outside them.
Assessment

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