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Unit 3 Science and Technology and The Human Person

This document discusses what it means to be human and human flourishing. It describes humans as rational animals that are responsible for innovations and live in both the spiritual and physical world according to Aristotle. Humans have evolved over time through traits like walking upright, tool use, domesticating animals, changes in body and brain complexity, social life using language and symbols. The document also discusses theories of human decision making, well-being, and how advancements in science and technology can both enhance and affect human flourishing when risks and costs to society are considered.

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Unit 3 Science and Technology and The Human Person

This document discusses what it means to be human and human flourishing. It describes humans as rational animals that are responsible for innovations and live in both the spiritual and physical world according to Aristotle. Humans have evolved over time through traits like walking upright, tool use, domesticating animals, changes in body and brain complexity, social life using language and symbols. The document also discusses theories of human decision making, well-being, and how advancements in science and technology can both enhance and affect human flourishing when risks and costs to society are considered.

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UNIT 3

Science and Technology and


the Human Person
CHAPTER VII:
What is a Human Being?
•A man, woman, or child of the species
Homo sapiens with superior mental
development, power of articulate
speech, and upright stance.

•Individual person responsible for the


researches and innovations available
today.
According to Aristotle
• Man is a…
rational animal
creature whose destiny is to live in the
spiritual world and physical world.
 material body and a spiritual soul
- With belief on the existence and live in the
kingdom of God
Spiritual world
• Different beliefs, religions, doctrines, on the
existence of God have been explored

Physical world
• destined to live and be part together with other
living organisms
“The way human beings do things is by making rational
choices.”
- Aristotle
RATIONAL
CHOICE THEORY

Specific actions Different


and scientific Model of Science and norms,
investigations human technology
most in line with
principles,
decision priorities to
their personal values, and
making satisfy human
preferences intuitions
needs
Characteristics of Humans that
evolved over time
1.) WALKING UPRIGHT
•Earliest humans climbed tress and walked
on the ground to gather food and find
shelter for survival.
•Four legged  walking upright
2.) USE OF DIFFERENT TOOLS

• Activities such as foraging, hunting, and fishing


to provide food supply  tools and tool making
• stone, wood, bone, ivory, metals (bronze & iron)
3.) DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS
• Raised animals for clothing,
medicine, and shelters.

•First domesticated animal:


GOATS
•Oxen or horses – for plowing and
transportation
• Also called as beasts of burden
4.) CHANGES IN HUMAN BODY
• Humans spread to different environments and
changed their diet.

A. Short bodies and long guts (6 mya)


B. Tall bodies and short gut (9 mya)
C. Compact bodies (400,000 ya)
D. Bones were smooth and weaker (50,000 ya)
5.) COMPLEXITY OF BRAINS
• New challenges that humans faced as the
environment changes
• Bigger human bodies
• Larger and more complex human brains

• The more information the brain receives, the faster it


process, the more adequately it will be able to
respond.
6.) SOCIAL LIFE
“No man is an island, entire of itself. Every man is a
piece of the continent, a part of the main.”
- John Donne, Meditation XVII

FAMILY  SOCIETY
Society – friendly association with others
- group of people who share common
economic, social, and industrial infrastructures
6.) SOCIAL LIFE
IMPORTANCE
a. Support for each other
b. Formation of Social groups
c. Formation of a culture
d. Regulation of policies and standards
e. Achieving a common goal
7.) USE OF LANGUAGE AND SYMBOLS

• Ancient times
- communicate thru symbols, languages, or sounds
- used pigments, paintings, and cravings
- information in stone paintings, walls of caves etc.
- jewelry to reflect their identity
• Modern times
- colors, printing press, sounds, computers, and
language to communicate
HUMAN FLOURISHING
• an effort to achieve self- actualization and
fulfillment within the context of a larger
community, each with the right to pursue his or her
own efforts

• Life-long existential journey of hopes,


achievements, regrets, losses, illness, suffering, and
coping
“ There is an end to all the actions that we perform
which e desire for ourselves.”
- Aristotle
Human Flourishing
- Known as eudaimonia, flourishing, happiness
- Highest good of human endeavors.
- Concept of religion and belief in God are also anchored
WELL-BEING THEORY
• Martin E. P. Seligman
• human flourishing is not only focused on
happiness of individuals alone but also in
psychological well-being.

•Rests on five pillars - PERMA


WELL-BEING THEORY

Positive Emotion
• contribute to the “pleasant life”
• Emotion is an affective state of
consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear,
hate, is experienced.
WELL-BEING THEORY

Engagement
• doing everything with enthusiasm
• being one with the music
WELL-BEING THEORY

Relationships
• great feeling of joy and sorrow shared with
other people.
•“Other people”- best antidote to the downs
of life and the single most reliable up.
WELL-BEING THEORY

Meaning
• Every human being wants meaningful life
• based on man’s value or worth
•Purpose of your existence
WELL-BEING THEORY

Accomplishment
• successful; achieved after a lot of work or
efforts
• for its own sake
Human enhancement through
technology is ubiquitous

Different technologies were developed to


improve health and nutrition.
Advancements in SCIENCE and
TECHNOLOGY should be assessed
according to the risks and costs they bring
to the SOCIETY and environment

 affect human flourishing

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