WHOSE MEANING OF LIFE?
Knowing oneself is a condition to deal with life’s problems and that happiness is impossible without moral virtue.
Who is Socrates?
Ancient Greek philosophy considers it as an achievement and it must be gained by living a productive and moral life.
What is Happiness?
In a time where only a few were known to man, people go around and move to different areas looking for food or shelter.
What is Hunting and Gathering Society?
He considers human beings as moral agents. Humans > Animals
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
Not a one-way process, but comprises the multilateral interactions among global systems, local practices, transnational trends, and personal lifestyles.
What is Globalization?
All things or destructible except for the Unmoved Mover.
Who is Aristotle?
It takes place when we patiently endure unpleasantness, discomfort, and pain.
What is Suffer?
"Everything is brand new and well patented. Have you ridden the new steam engine train yet? Ever got your book published from the printing press?"
What is Industrial Society?
He emphasizes the importance of free individual choice, regardless of the power of the other people to influence and coerce their desires, beliefs, and decisions.
Who is Jean Paul Sartre?
A movement in which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
We have to be responsible for our own existence, for there is one will and it underlies everything.
Who is Arthur Schopenhauer?
It refers to a list of things that one has not done before but wants to do before dying.
What is a Bucket list?
Isn’t it fantastic that we are having this activity in Google Meet? Connecting us to one another through our computer screens.
What is Virtual Society?
He stated that “Human being is born free and good”.
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
A branch of computer science or the study and design of intelligent agents where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success.
What is AI or Artificial Intelligence?
The human person desires to be God; the desire to exist as a being that has its sufficient ground in itself – en sui causa
Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?
It is good as long as it provides some form of pleasure, though it does not have to be physical.
What is Pleasurable good?
Shovels? Rakes? Scythes? Tractors? They sure help a lot in improving our harvest.
What is Agrarian/Agricultural Society?
He defines a contract as "the mutual transferring of right." In the state of nature, everyone has the right to everything - there are no limits to the right of natural liberty.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
Can travel in a big office through the use of local and wide area networks.
What are Messages and Data?
Authentic existence is freedom and god. It always requires a leap of faith.
Who is Karl Jaspers?
It is one which is pursued for its own sake; it is good in itself.
What is Noble good?
A ruler or lord owned all of this land while the farmers or laborers farmed it.
What is Feudal Society?
According to him our struggle for freedom is not due to a will to be free As for Aristotle or Sartre, but to certain behavioral processes characteristic of the human organism, the chief effect of which is the avoidance or escape from “ aversive” features of the environment.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Assuming an increasingly central place in scientific research and data processing is becoming all important.
What is the Computer?