SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY LESSON 14

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

1. A Course Module for Science, Technology, and Society Chapter 3 Lesson 1 Eden Joy Pastor Alata, Mark Joseph Tumada Calano, Greg Tabios Pawilen, 2021

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3. Lesson Objectives At the end of this lesson, you are expected to: articulate one’s vision, justification, and criteria of human flourishing; recognize the different dynamics of Buddhist economics compared to materialist perspectives; and compare this understanding from similar concepts of human flourishing. Human Flourishing

4. Answer the activity on page 79 of the textbook. Activity

5. What is Buddhist economics? In what ways is Buddhist economics different from Western economics? Abstraction

6. CONSUMPTION versus HUMAN FLOURISHING NONVIOLENCE and SIMPLICITY

7. “It is in the light of both immediate experience and long-term prospects that the study of Buddhist economics could be recommended even to those who believe that economic growth is more important than any spiritual or religious values. For it is not a question of choosing between “modern growth” and “traditional stagnation.” It is a question of finding the right path to development, the Middle Way between materialist heedlessness and traditionalist immobility, in short, of finding “Right Livelihood”” (E. F. Schumacher).

8. Read the excerpt on page 83. D o you think that Walden is comparable to Schumacher’s text on Buddhist Economics ? In what ways are they similar and in what ways are they different? Application and Assessment

9. A Course Module for Science, Technology, and Society Chapter 3 Lesson 2 Eden Joy Pastor Alata, Mark Joseph Tumada Calano, Greg Tabios Pawilen, 2021

10. Lesson Objectives At the end of this lesson, you are expected to: understand the sources of téchnē; understand the relationship between téchnē, epistēmē, and physis; and recognize the humanism behind the Greek understanding of téchnē . Téchnē and Epistēmē

11. Answer the activity on page 88 of the textbook. Activity

12. What is the relationship between téchnē and epistēmē ? How are the two Greek concepts above related to physis? What does it mean for humans to be capable of developing téchnē and epistēmē in a world of physis? Abstraction

13. téchnē epistēmē physis

14. Why does téchnē require epistēmē in a world of physis? Application and Assessment

15. A Course Module for Science, Technology, and Society Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Eden Joy Pastor Alata, Mark Joseph Tumada Calano, Greg Tabios Pawilen, 2021

16. Lesson Objectives At the end of this lesson, you are expected to: understand the relationship between téchnē and phronesis; understand the relationship between phronesis and eudaimonia; and recognize the relationship between téchnē and eudaimonia. The Good Life

17. Answer the activity on page 93 of the textbook. Activity

18. If téchnē is part of what it means to be human, how is it related to phronesis (practical wisdom)? If phronesis involves the process of doing, what is the role that it plays in the attainment of eudaimonia (happiness)? If téchnē is related to phronesis, can it also have a role in the attainment of eudaimonia? Abstraction

19. téchnē phronesis eudaimonia

20. Watch the movie AS GOOD AS IT GETS, and answer the questions on page 99. Application and Assessment

21. A Course Module for Science, Technology, and Society Chapter 3 Lesson 4 Eden Joy Pastor Alata, Mark Joseph Tumada Calano, Greg Tabios Pawilen, 2021

22. Lesson Objectives At the end of this lesson, you are expected to: understand Heidegger’s understanding of technology as enframing; recognize the duplicity of modern technology as both a danger and a saving grace; and recognize what it takes to consider the saving grace of technology. Ethics and Values in Science, Technology, and Society

23. Answer the activity on page 103 of the textbook. Activity

24. How should we understand human activity in relation to causes ? How do we understand téchnē with epistēmē and aletheia ? How do we address enframing, and what is the danger that it poses? How should we understand the role of poiesis ? Abstraction

25. Aristotle’s Four Causes and Human Activity téchnē, epistēme , and aletheia enframing poiesis

26. Answer the Activity on page 109. Application and Assessment