The Good Life

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“Life’s good when it’s lived for oneself; it’s
great when lived for others. The true means
of happiness is to lose your mind by thinking
for others!” 
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
 Desired Learning Outcome
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At the end of the lesson the students must have:
1. explained the concept of the good life
as posited by Aristotle;
2. defined the good life in their own word
; and
3. examined shared concerns that make
up the good life to come up with
innovative and creative solutions to
contemporary issues guided by ethical
standards
Classical Theorists
Aristotle
• Good Life is characterized by
happiness that springs from
living and doing well.
• “Living and doing well”
🙢 The Ancient Greeks refer it
as eudaimonia, eu meaning
“good” and daimon meaning
“spirit.”
🙢 Also means living a life of
virtue, a life excellence,
manifested from the
personal to the global scale.
To be happy by becoming the best versions of yourself.

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• Studying hard = Graduate • Training hard = Olympian
• Virtue – Excellence of
character that
empowers one to do
and be good no matter
how difficult the
circumstances may be.
🙢 - 2 kinds:
1. Intellectual - Comes
about from
experience.
2. Moral – Comes
about as a result of
habit.
🙢 Happiness defines a good life. This happiness,
however, is not the kind that comes from sensate
pleasures. It is that which comes from living of
virtue, a life of excellence manifested from the
personal to the global scale.
🙢 Virtue plays a significant role in the living and
attainment of the good life.
🙢 Everyone has the capacity within himself/herself
to be good, but he/she also has to be disciplined
to make a habit of exercising the good.
 John Stuart Mill
• Declared “The Greatest
Happiness Principle” where
an action is right as far as it
maximizes the attainment of
happiness for the greatest
number of people.
• When an action benefits the
greatest number of people,
the said action is deemed
ethical.
• Being ethical lead us to good
life.
When an action benefits the greatest number of people, said
action is deemed ethical.

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• Mining
• If the answers to the said
- Does mining benefit
question is affirmative,
rather than hurt the
mining, is then deemed
majority?
ethical.
- Does it offer more
• Being ethical leads to
benefits rather than
good life.
disadvantages?
 Materialism
• The first
materialists were
atomists in Ancient
Greece: Democritus
and Leucippus.
• The world,
including human
being, is made up
of matter.
• Matter is what
makes us attain
happiness.
 Material things = Happiness

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Wealth Cars
 Hedonism
• Led by Epicurus.
• Life is about obtaining
and indulging in
pleasure because life is
limited.
• Their mantra, “Eat,
drink and be merry for
tomorrow we die.”
Living a life of pleasure.

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Parties
 Stoicism
• Also led by Epicurus.
• To generate happiness, one must
learn to distance oneself and be
apathetic.

• Apathetic – apatheia meaning

“indifferent”
• Happiness can be attained by a
careful practice of apathy.
Adopt the fact that not all things are within our control.

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Doing nothing. Disinterest.
 Theism
• Ultimate basis is the
communion of God.
• The world we are in is only a
temporary reality where we
have to maneuver around
while waiting for the ultimate
return to the hands of God.
 Humanism
• Freedom of man to
carve his own destiny
and to legislate his own
laws, free from
shackles of a God that
monitors and controls.

• Scientists, thought that the

world is a place and space
for freely unearthing the
world in seeking for ways
on how to improve lives of
its inhabitants.
• Scientists turned to
technology in order to ease
the difficulty of life.
 Application of Good Life to
Other Fields
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Medicine Business
🙢 In business, meeting the
🙢 In the field of medicine,
demands (material needs
the goal of every medical and wants) of the customers
practitioner is to ensure is of utmost important as
good health to their well as the satisfactory after
patients. Providing such, those demands are met.
not just gives a feeling of
gratitude for the patient
but a also a sense of
gratification from the
medical practitioner.
 Application to other fields
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Communications Education
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media. especially now that
from all over the world.
technology provided a more
fun learning environment.
 Application to other fields
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Agriculture Transportation
🙢 Inventing new 🙢 Proper transportation
techniques in better where it involves
farming where not just security and on-time
people benefit from it delivery is a heavy
but also the responsibility especially
that expectations are
environment.
involved. A proper
transportation means
satisfied customer.
 Summary
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 References
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• The Good Life by Alata, E., et. Al. in the Science,
Technology and Society. Rex Bookstore pp 75-81
• The Good Life by Beleno, R., Valverde, V.,
McNamara, D. in the Science, Technology and
Society pp 70-75
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