The Good Life

Brent Villanueva
Raenil Larenz Gomez
Anfernee Meneses
 The Good Life
"Happiness depends on ourselves." More than
anybody else, Aristotle enshrines happiness
as a central purpose of human life and a goal
in itself. As a result he devotes more space to
the topic of happiness than any thinker prior
to the modern era. Living during the same
period as Mencius, but on the other side of the
world, he draws some similar conclusions.
 Aristotle and How We All
aspire for a Good Life
When Aristotle claims that we want to be
happy, he does not necessarily mean the
everyday happiness that we obtain what
Aristotle actually means is human flourishing,
a kind of contentment in knowing that one is
getting the best out of life.
Happiness as the Goal of a
Good Life
 Materialism
• Democritus and Leucippus led a
school whose primary belief is that
the world is made up of and is
controlled by the tiny indivisible units
called “atomos” or seeds.
Hedonism
Pleasure has always been the priority of
hedonists. For them life is about obtaining
and indulging in pleasure because life is
limited
Stoicism
The stoics espoused the idea
that to generate happiness,
one must learn to distance one
– self and be apathetic.
Theism
Most people find the meaning
of their lives using God as a
fulcrum of their existence.
Humanism
Humanism is 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.
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Give the 2 worlds that Plato explained.

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Give the 5 different school of thought that all of
which aim for the good and happy life