“Living an authentic life

means living with deep

acceptance on the facticity
of death resulting to a life
lived.”
—HEIDEGGER
“The unexamined life is not
worth living for.”

—SOCRATES
 THE HOLISTIC APPROACH
good people, good community and world peace = good life
Materialism A form of philosophical monism which holds that
matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and
that all things, including mental aspects and
consciousness are results of material interactions.

The first materialists were the atomists in Ancient

Greece.

Democritus and Leucippus led a school whose

primary belief is that the world is made up of and
is controlled by the tiny invisible units in the
world called atomos or seeds.

Atomos simply comes together randomly to form

the things in the world.
Classification of Materialism
Naïve
01 materialism
Dialectical
02 materialism
Metaphysical
03 materialism
 Hedonism
Is a school of thought that argues that the
pursuit of pleasure and intrinsic goods are the
primary or most important goals of human life.

A hedonist strives to maximize net pleasure

(pleasure minus pain) but when having finally
gained that pleasure, happiness remains
stationary.

“Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we

die.”
 STOICISM
Another school of thought led by Epicurus.

The stoics espoused the idea that to generate

happiness, one must learn to distance oneself
and be apathetic.

The path to happiness for humans is found in

accepting this moment as it presents itself, by
not allowing ourselves to be controlled by our
desire for pleasure, or our fear of pain.