Sts Midterm Module 4

UNIVERSITY OF CAGAYAN VALLEY
Tuguegarao City,Cagayan, 3500
SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS & TEACHER EDUCATION

Department of Natural Sciences
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY

(Midterm)
Name of Student:____________________________ Year/Section:___________________
Subject: Science, Technology, and Society Teacher: ________________________
MODULE No. M-03

TITLE: Topic 03: The Good Life
Overview/ The Good Life
Introduction: Everyone is in pursuit of the good life. People’s definition of the
good life may vary and differ in the particulars. In general, however, we
recognized universal truths that cut across our differences.
Learning At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
Objectives: A. examine shared concerns that make up the good life in order to
come up with innovative, creative solutions to contemporary
issues guided by ethical standards
Discussion/Analysis:
(STS M03 -Students Handout)
Nicomachean Ethics and Modern Concepts

Greek philosopher Aristotle (whose work spans from natural philosophy to logic and political
theory, attempted to explain what the good is.
In Nicomachean ethics, Aristotle stated:
All human activities aim at some good. Every art and human inquiry, and similarly
every human action pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has
been rightly declared as that at which all things aim (Nicomachean Ethics 2:2).
Everyone is moving towards the good. Thus, completing one’s studies, training for
sport, or taking a rest is a good. The good is expressed and manifested in many various ways
for different persons and circumstances. The good life, however, is more than these countless
expressions of what is good. It is characterized by happiness that springs from living and doing
well.
… both the many and the cultivated call it happiness, and suppose that living well and
doing well are the same as being happy (Nicomachean Ethics 1:4)
The ancient Greeks called this concept of “Living well and doing well” as
Eudaimonia. The word came from Greek word eu meaning “good” and daimon meaning
“spirit”. Taken altogether, it generally refers to good life, which marked by happiness and
excellence.
Furthermore, according to Aristotle, happiness is the ultimate end of human action. It
is that which people pursue for its own sake.
Now such a thing as happiness above all else, is held to be; for this we choose always
for itself and never for the sake of something else, but honor, pleasure, reason, and every
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virtue we choose indeed for themselves, but we choose them also for the sake of happiness,
judging that by means of them we shall be happy. Happiness, on the other hand, no one
chooses for anything other than itself (Nicomachean Ethics 1:10).
Happiness defines a good life. This happiness, however, is not the kind that comes
from senate pleasures. It is that which comes from living a life of virtue, a life of excellence,
manifested from the personal to global scale.
It is the activities that express virtue that control happiness, and the contrary activities
that control its contrary (Nicomachean Ethics 1:10).
The good life is marked by happiness brought about by virtuous human actions and
decisions that affect the individual self and the greater community.
Virtue plays a significant role in the living and attainment of the good life. It is the
constant practice of the good no matter how difficult the circumstances maybe. Virtue is the
excellence of character that empowers one to do and be good. Such virtue is cultivated with
habit and discipline as it is not a one-time deed, but a constant and consistent series of actions.
Virtue, then, being of two kinds, intellectual and moral, intellectual virtue in the main
owes its birth and growth to teaching (for which reason it requires experience and time),
while moral virtue comes about as a result of habit (Nicomachean Ethics 2:1)
The onward progress of science and technology is also the movement towards the good
life. Science and technology are one of the highest expressions of human faculties. They allow
us to thrive and flourish in life if we so desire it. Science and technology may also corrupt a
person, but grounding oneself in virtue will help him/her steer clear of danger.
Desired Activity:
Activity 01-B: Questions For Reflection

Instruction:. Answer the following questions concisely. [Highest possible score is 10 points
per item (Content-5, Organization-3, Grammar-2)]
1. How much is enough? Do you think that Man, for better or worse, is helplessly
delivered over to Greed?
2. In search for educational development, do you think that high grades unquestionably
imply good life?
REFERENCES:
 Book VI and Bk X Nichomachean ethics of Aristotle

 What Is and What should be the role of scientific culture in modern society –
Richard Feynman in the Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of
Richard Feynman 1999 Perseus Books. USA pp97115
 The Concepts of the Public Good: A View from the Filipino Philosopher by Rolando
Gripaldo in the Making of a Filipino Philosopher and Other Essays, 2009, National
Bookstore pp 82-101
 Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing in Ethics and Human Dignity by Christopher
Ryan Maboloc). Manila, 2010. Rex Bookstore pp 15-23
 McNamara, D.G., Valverde, V.M., and Ramon Beleno III, 2018. Science Technology
and Society

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UNIVERSITY OF CAGAYAN VALLEY

Tuguegarao City,Cagayan, 3500

SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS & TEACHER EDUCATION

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY

MODULE No. M-03

Nicomachean Ethics and Modern Concepts

In Nicomachean ethics, Aristotle stated:

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Activity 01-B: Questions For Reflection

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