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MODULE 2: SCEINCE, TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION

LESSON 1: HUMAN FLOURISHING IN SIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Martin heidegger

• Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was a German philosopher.
• Believes that technology is a "way of thinking"

technology as a way of revealing

“Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.”

ENFRAMING: WAY OF REVEALING IN MODERN TECHNOLOGY

• way of revealing in the modern technology
• way of looking reality
• human orientation of technology

MODULE 2: SCEINCE, TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION

LESSON 2: The Good Life

ARISTOTLE

ancient Greek philosopher whose work spans from natural philosophy to logic and political theory, attempted to explain what the good is.

nicomachean ethics and modern concepts

• determine how best to achieve happiness
• Happiness depends on living in accordance with appropriate virtues.

eudaimonia

the condition of human flourishing or of living well.

is the highest human good, the only human good that is desirable for its own sake (as an end in itself) rather than for the sake of something else (as a means toward some other end).

MODULE 2: SCEINCE, TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION

When Technology and Humanity Cross

increased human-to-machine interactions are all a result of an overuse of technology, which has created a wall between many people globally.

universal DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

• All people everywhere have the same human rights which no one can take away.
• This is the basis of freedom, justice and peace in the world.
• This Declaration affirms the dignity and worth of all people, and the equal rights of women and men.

HUMANS VS. ROBOTS

Human nature may be corrupted when the powers of our mind, our rationality, and our science and technology become manifest. If we are not able to rein in the vanity and arrogance that such powers unleash, then we are on the way to destroying the world