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1. CHAPTER 3: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION LESSON 3: THE GOOD LIFE

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: For this lesson, the students will be able to: Examine what is meant by a good life, Identify how humans attempt to attain what is deemed to be a good life; and Recognize possibilities available to human being to attain the good life.

3. ESSENTIAL QUESTION : In what extent can you sacrifice in order to achieve a good and satisfying life?

4. MOTIVATIONAL ACTIVITY: List ten (10) most important things in your life that you can`t live without them. After which, erase one thing at a time until it reached to only one (1). Prepare a 30 seconds brief explanation of your output. Ten (10) random students will be called to share their ideas to the group.

5. LESSON PROPER For Aristotle, morality is the study of good life. The good life includes: Good choices Good actions Good habits Good character

6. But what is “The Good”? When a thing has a proper operation, the good of the thing and its well being consists in the operation.

7. For example: A good computer is one that operates as it was designed to. It computes well. A good saw operates as it was designed to. It cuts well. A good plant acts according to its nature (functions well). Grows, reproduces and nourishes itself. A good dog functions according to its animal nature: runs, senses, fetches stick, barks, defend a house, etc.

8. Can you name other examples?

9. ANALYSIS: Is it possible for a person to achieve everything that he has set out to achieve in life and the end find himself unhappy? Is it possible to have a wife/husband, children, house and a good job, and at the same time still be unhappy?

10. If your answer is YES on the first question, then it does not follow that happiness is necessarily doing what you want to do. If your answer to the second question is YES, then it does not follow that happiness is necessarily having a wife/husband, children, house and a good job.

11. For Aristotle, HAPPINESS results from the fulfillment of one`s human nature. And since one`s human nature is fulfilled or perfected by the virtues, it follows that: Happiness is activity in accordance with perfect virtue.

12. Will- not the same as feelings Reason- power that distinguishes you from brute animals; power that enables a person to think. If happiness is the fulfillment of human nature, what are the powers in human nature that needs to be fulfilled? The concupiscible appetite- the pleasure appetite The irascible appetite- the aggressive appetite

13. Sometimes, the appetites rebel against reason. For example: The person who easily gives up when things become difficult. The person who runs when there is danger. The person who cannot hold a job because he has no self control over alcoholic drinks. The person who has no control over his sexual appetite, and so can think of nothing other than sex.

14. The good life (moral life) begins by bringing order to one`s life.

15. Aristotle claims that HAPPINESS is the be all and end all of everything that we do. We may not realize it but the end goal of everything that we do is happiness. Happiness, according to Aristotle means human flourishing. It is a kind of contentment in knowing that one is getting the best out of life.

16. Also, according to Aristotle, HAPPINESS is goodness or virtue. If a person has cultivated the virtues of PRUDENCE, JUSTICE, FORTITUDE and TEMPERANCE, such a person is good. And a good person is a happy person.

17. APPLICATION: Going back to the ESSENTIAL QUESTION, write a short and brief answer on a clean sheet of paper. The students will be given five (5) minutes to write their answer. All of the students will be given to share their ideas to the class. QUESTION: In what extent can you sacrifice in order to achieve a good and satisfying life?

18. EVALUATION Answer the following questions. Submit your answers on our Google Classroom. Answers must be limited to 50 words only. What is the good life? What is the relationship between the good life and science?

19. ASSIGNMENT: Make an advance reading on the next topic, “When Technology and Humanity Cross” page 84 on your Science, Technology and Society book.