Human

FLOURISHING
 WHAT IS IT?
Human flourishing is the ability to live
a good life. Rooted in Aristotelian
ethics, it values health intrinsically and
applies universally to all human lives.
Human flourishing embraces our
shared humanity and serves
everyone’s interest. All people should
have the conditions for flourishing and
realizing their ability to be healthy.
They can use their values, talents, and
abilities in pursuit of their own goals
and health.
 WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

Human flourishing is important because it

promotes the growth, development, and
holistic well-being of individuals and
populations. It serves as a moral basis for
what it means to be a human being. If we
desire individuals’ abilities to flourish, we
will be better equipped to analyze and
shape health policy and public health. We
can better achieve health equity
worldwide.
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?

A flourishing person is living a good, fulfilling life, a

life with a sense of purpose. They have the ability
to do what they want to do and be who they want
to be. They have, and are committed to building,
good mental health, physical health, and social
health in all areas of their lives and those of their
community members. This includes family, work,
education, community, politics, economics, and
more.
 HOW DO WE DO IT?
Human flourishing is supported at
the individual and community levels. Knowing about our health and
At the individual level, we can how to be healthy.
develop our abilities to flourish by
Being self-motivated to achieve
Being committed to growing the goals that we and society
within, and developing, value. At the community level, we
supportive and cultivating must be surrounded and
environments that form our supported by, and contribute
capabilities. collaboratively to, strong support
systems, institutions, resources,
Believing in ourselves and our norms, and security that will help
abilities. us all flourish.
HUMAN FLOURISHING IN TERMS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Technology has always been defined as a means to an end and being a
human activity.
It has long filled the word. Everyday routines are marked with
technological advances that reflect what a society is good or known
for. Technology has well advanced since the middle of the
20thcentury, and our lives has never been better.
It is not unexpected for technology to involve question of knowledge
which lead to its formation as one of the branches of philosophy. This
also led to the furtherance of technology based on how it is viewed
and understood. Aristotle, along with other philosophers believed that
knowledge of the world begins by looking and examining that which
exists. To understand the human person flourishing in terms of
science and technology, it is good to first examine technology in its
essence.
 FLOURISHING

a state where people experience

positive emotion, positive psychological
Functioning and positive social
functioning, most of the time living
within an optimal range of human
functioning.
 EDWARD W. YOUNKIN
in his article Aristotle, Human Flourishing
and the Limited State (2003) defined
Human flourishing (also known as personal
flourishing) as something that involves the
rational use of one's individual human
potentialities, including talents, abilities, and
virtues in the pursuit of his freely and
rationally chosen values and goals.
PHILOSOPHIES CONTRIBUTED ON HOW
TECHNOLOGY IS UNDERSTOOD AND
UTILIZED BY THE SOCIETY.
 1. ARISTOLELIANISM
This views technology as basically a
means to an end. To Aristotle,
technology is the organizing of
techniques in order to meet the
demand that is being posed by
humans. This may seem that
technology is primarily concerned with
the product. Technology will be judged
as either good or bad based on the
value given to the product based on its
use and effect to the society.
2. TECHNOLOGICAL PESSIMISM

This view is extremely supported by French philosopher Jacques

Ellul (1912-1994).
Technological Pessimism holds that technology is progressive and
beneficial in many ways, it is also doubtful in many ways. It is said
that technology is a means to and end but this views, technology
has become a way of life. Technique has become a framework
which human cannot escape. It has introduced ways on how to
make things easy. Ellul's pessimistic arguments are:

1.Technological progress has a price;

2. Technological progress creates more problems;

3. Technological progress creates damaging effects; and

4. Technological progress creates unpredictable devastating

effects
3. TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIMISM
This view is strongly supported by
technologist and engineers and also by
ordinary people who believe that
technology can alleviate all the difficulties
and provide solutions for problems that
may come. It holds that even though
technological problems may arise,
technology will still be the solutions to it.
The extreme version of this philosophy is
technocratism which holds technology as
the supreme authority on everything.
4. EXISTENTIALISM

The main concern of this view is the

existence or the mode of being of
someone or something which is governed
by the norm of authenticity. This view
basically investigates the meaning of
existence or being and is always faced
with the selection must make with which
the existence will commit himself to.
 MARTIN HEIDEGGER

German philosopher, one of the most

known supporters of this philosophy. He
did not stop defining what technology is
but has dealt with its essence. To
Heidegger, the real essence of technology
lies in enframing, the gathering of the
setting upon which challenges man to
bring the unconcealed to unconcealment
and this is a continuous revealing.
 GROUP 5
ANDAYA, ANGELINE
CUERPO, LORIEN
GALIT, ALEXANDRA
LAMAN, LEAHN MAE
NADADO, KIAN
SOLANO, JONALISA