THE HUMAN FLOURISHING

IN PROGRESS AND DE-

DEVELOPMENT AND
THE GOOD LIFE
Here starts the
lesson!
OBJECTIVES
✓ Recognize possibilities
✓ Define the idea of available to human
good life; being to attain the
good life
✓ Identify how humans ✓ Explain de-
attempt to attain what development as a
is deemed to be a progress and
good life; development framework
 01

THE GOOD LIFE

“Happiness depends
on ourselves.”

― Aristotle
Is pleasure an
ultimate good?
Is wealth an ultimate
good?
Is fame and honor an
ultimate good?
THE GOOD GOOD
LIFE CHARACTER

GOOD CHOICES
AND ACTIONS

LEARN FROM
THE PAST
ARISTOTLE’S TRIPARTITE SOUL
ARISTOTLE’S TRIPARTITE SOUL
ARISTOTLE’S TRIPARTITE SOUL
ARISTOTLE’S TRIPARTITE SOUL
THE STOIC
HAPPINES
S
TRIANGLE
SCHOOLS
OF
THOUGHT
SCHOOL OF THOUGHT ● Leucippus & Democritus (460-
370B.C.)
● The atomist philosophers thought
that the universe and matter are
only made up of atoms, “atomos”
MATERIALISM or seeds.
● This belief aims that comfort,
pleasure and wealth are the only
highest goals.
SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
● Epicurus
● The hedonists, since life
limited, one must indulge
itself with pleasures.
HEDONISM
“It is impossible to live a
pleasant life without living
wisely.”
SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
● Marcus Aurelius
● Created for those who live
their lives in the real world.
STOICISM ● the endurance of pain or
hardship without the display
of feelings and without
complaint
SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
● The ultimate basis of
happiness for theist is the
communication with God.
● Most people find the
THEISM meaning of their lives using
God as a fulcrum of their
existence.
SCHOOL OF THOUGHT ● Humanism as another school of
thought, espouses the freedom
of man to carve his own destiny
and to legislate his own laws,
free from shackles of a God that
HUMANISM monitors and controls.
● For, humanists, man is literally
the captain of their own ship.
“MAN IS CONSTANTLY IN PURSUIT
OF THE GOOD LIFE. EVERY PERSON
HAS HIS PERSPECTIVE WHEN IT
COMES TO WHAT COMPRISES THE
GOOD LIFE.”
Is it possible for a person to
achieve everything that he
has set out to achieve in life
and in 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?
What is the ultimate goal What is the role of
of a good life? technology in achieving
good life?
ACTIVITY!
Objective: The objective of this reenactment is to
provide a comprehensive understanding of the
five major schools of thought.
Instructions:
1. Assign each participant a specific school of thought
to research and represent.
2. Collaboratively develop scripts or guidelines for the
reenactment, outlining key dialogues, scenes, and
interactions between the different schools.
 02
THE HUMAN
FLOURISHING IN
PROGRESS AND DE-
DEVELOPMENT
 HOW DO WE WHAT ARE THE
KNOW WE INDICATORS
ARE OF
PROGRESSING DEVELOPMENT
? ?
DE- “Forget 'developing' poor
countries, it's time to 'de-
DEVELOPMENT develop' rich countries.”
- Jason Hickel
Development is equated
with growth and
consumption.
According to Hickel, how
can rich countries 'de-
develop'?
 • Reevaluation of
Progress
• Prioritization of
Sustainability
CONCEPT OF • Social Equity
• Cultural Preservation
DEDEVELOPMEN • Holistic Development
• Alternative
T Technologies
• Critique of
Consumerism
 MAJOR FACTORS
OF DEVELOPMENT

● Poverty Level Per

Capita (GDP)
● Higher Incomes and Life
Expectance
● Levels of Economic
Development
● Education and Training
MAJOR FACTORS
OF DEVELOPMENT
● Poverty Level Per Capita
(GDP)

- Per capita income is a

measure of the amount of
income earned per person in a
nation or geographic region.

Income earned per

person
MAJOR FACTORS
OF DEVELOPMENT

● Higher Income and Life

Expectance

Higher Income
MAJOR FACTORS
OF DEVELOPMENT
● Levels of Economic
Development
1) Underdeveloped
2) Developing
3) Developed
(Industrialized)

Industrialized Country
UNDERDEVELOP
ED COUNTRY

DEVELOPING
COUNTRY

DEVELOPED
COUNTRY
MAJOR FACTORS
OF
DEVELOPMENT

● Education and
Training
Sustainable Development Goals
GROWTH
The standard response
ineradicating poverty

Universalizing
Investing in Agricuture Education

Expanding Nutrition
Creating Jobs Programs
THANK
YOU!