GROUP

3
THE GOOD LIFE
LESSON 3
 TABLE OF
GROU LESSO
0 CONTENTS
TOPIC 02
P 03
N 04
INTROD
1
TITLE MEMB OBJEC UCTION
ER TIVES
CONT SUM
05
ENT 06
BRIEF 07
MAR 08
QUI
TOPIC DISCU Y Z
S SSION
0 THE GOOD
LIFE
1 Topic Title
GROUP
MEMBER 02
 NIKKA
YADAO

ÑINO
CYREX
RAÑOLA
 TRIXIE M.
TORRES

CHERRY
ELAINE
RAÑA
 ARMELYN
PAPARES

LORIE MAE
RAFER
 STEVEN
CARL
AGUIRRE

ARON
VICTORIANO
 MARIA
GEL
BALANE

JEFF
RUMELL
YADAO
 JOHN
PHILIP
ALOC

ANJELO
HAMOR JAMES
LORENCE
FERMO
LESSON
OBJECTI
VES 03
 LESSON
01 OBJECTIVES 03
02
recognize
examine possibilities
identify how
what is available to
humans
meant by a attempt to human being to
good life; attain what is attain the good
deemed to be life.
a good life;
and
 INTRODUC
04 TION
 INTRODUCTION

In Ancient Greece, long before the word "science” has been coined, the need to understand
the world and reality was bound with the need to understand the self and the good life.
Among the theoretical disciplines, Aristotle included logic, biology, physics, and
metaphysics, among others. Among the practical ones, Aristotle counted ethics and politics.
Whereas "truth" is the aim of the theoretical sciences, the "good" is the end goal of the
practical ones. Rightly so, one must find the truth about what the good is before one can
even try to locate that which is good.
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CONTENT
TOPICS
CONTENT TOPICS
● Aristotle and How We All
Aspire for a Good Life
● Happiness as the Goal of a
Good Life
● Materialism
● Hedonism
● Stoicism
● Theism
● Humanism
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BRIEF
6 DISCUSSION
 Aristotle and How We
All Aspire for a Good
Life
Aristotle was the first philosopher who approached the problem of reality from a
"scientific" lens as we know now. He is also the first thinker who dabbled into the
complex problematization of the end goal of life: happiness. Compared to his
teacher and predecessor, Plato, Aristotle embarked on a different approach in
figuring out reality. In Plato's philosophy, change is a phenomenon that happens in
the world, that in fact, it is constant. However, despite the reality of change, things
remain, and they retain their ultimate "whatness"; that you remain to be you despite
the pimple that now sits atop your nose.
In the world of forms, entities are only copies of the ideal and the models, and the
forms are the only real entities. For Plato, this can only be explained by postulating
two aspects of reality, two worlds if you wish:  world of forms and world of matter.
 Aristotle and How We
All Aspire for a Good
In Stoic theory, Plato argued that thereLife
is no reality over and above what the senses
can perceive. Aristotle, on the other hand, argued that all entities in the world start
as potentialities and move toward actualities through a process of change. Every
action that emanates from a human person is a function of the purpose (telos) that
the person has. When a boy asks for a burger from a Filipino burger joint, his action
is motivated primarily by the purpose that he has, inferably to get full or to taste the
burger that he only sees on TV. Every human person, according to Aristotle, aspires
for an end. This end, we have learned from the previous chapters, is happiness or
human flourishing. When a girl tries to finish her degree in the university, despite
the initial failures she may have had, she is being propelled by a higher purpose
than to just graduate. She wants something more, maybe to have a license and land
a promising job in the future.
 Happiness as the Goal
of a Good Life
 In the eighteenth century, John Stuart Mill declared the
Greatest Happiness Principle by saying that an action is
right as far as it maximizes happiness for the greatest
number of people.
 Mill said that individual happiness of everyone should be
prioritized and collectively dictates the kind of action that
should be endorsed.
 The ethical is, of course, meant to lead us to the good and
happy life.
 Materialism
 the first materialists where the atomists in Ancient Greece was Democritus
and Leucippus.
 primary belief that world is made up of and controlled by tiny indivisible
units in the world called atomos or seeds.
 For Democritus and his disciples, the world, including human beings, is made
up of matter.
 Atomos simply come together randomly to form the things in the world.
 In terms of human flourishing, the matter is what makes us attain happiness.
We see this at work with most people who are clinging to material wealth as
the primary source of the meaning of their existence.
 Hedonism

 see the end goal of life in acquiring pleasure. Pleasure has

always been the priority of hedonists.
 life is about obtaining and 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."
 this school of thought also does not buy any notion of
afterlife just like the materialists.
 Stoicism

 the idea that to generate happiness, one must learn to

distance oneself and be apathetic.
 happiness can only be attained by a careful practice of
apathy.
 We should, in this worldview, adopt the fact that some
things are not within our control. The sooner we realize this,
the happier we can become.
 Theism

 Most people find the meaning of their lives using God as a fulcrum of
their existence.
 The Philippines, as a predominantly Catholic country, is witness to how
people base their life goals on beliefs that hinged on some form of
supernatural reality called heaven.
 The ultimate basis of happiness for theists is the communion with God.
 The world where we are in is only just a temporary reality where we
must 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.
 Man is literally the captain of his own ship.
 humanist current, scientists eventually turned to technology in
order to ease the difficulty of life. Now, communication between
two people wherever they are, is not just possible but easy. The
Internet and smartphones made real-time communication possible
not just between two people, but even with multiple people
simultaneously.
SUMMARY 07
 SUMMARY
Man is constantly in pursuit of the good life. Every person has his perspective when
it comes to what comprises the good life. Throughout history, man has worked hard
in pointing out what amounts to a good happy life. Some people like the classical
theorists thought that happiness has to do with the insides of the human person.
The soul, as the seat of our humanity, has been the focus of attention of this end
goal. The soul must attain a certain balance in order to have a good life, a life. of
flourishing. It was only until the seventeenth century that happiness became a
centerpiece in the lives of people, even becoming a full-blown ethical foundation in
John Stuart Mill's utilitarianism. At present, we see multitudes of schools of thought
that all promise their own key to finding happiness. Science and technology has
been, for the most part, at the forefront of man's attempts at finding this happiness.
The only question at the end of the day is whether science is taking the right path
toward attaining what it really means to live a good life.
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QUIZ
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 LESSON 3: THE
GOOD LIFE (QUIZ)
MULTIPLE CHOICE:

1. Matters makes human attain happiness

A. Materialism
B. Stoicism
C. Hedonism
D. Theism

2. The 1st philosopher of this thought are the Ancient of Greece

A. Theism
B. Humanism
C. Hedonism
D. Materialism
3. Catholic believes in the existence of heaven
A. Humanism
B. Theism
C. Materialism
D. Hedonism

4. Freedom of man to carve his own destiny and to legislate his own laws
A. Hedonism
B. Humanism
C. Theism
D. Stoicism

5. See the end of goal of life in acquiring pleasure

A. Theism
B. Materialism
C. Stoicism
D. Hedonism
IDENTIFICATION:

6-7. What does Plato mean when he says that there can only be two realities?

8. Primary belief that world is made up of and controlled by tiny indivisible units in
the world called?

9. Who is the Greatest Happiness Principle, according to the declaration?

10. Who is the ultimate basis of happiness for theists in the communion?