Imagine for a second that you are sitting in a hospital room. Your loved one has been admitted to the emergency room and is hooked up to an ekg monitor which is the only device monitoring them while the doctors and nursing staff leave to see other patients. Not many people think of the Biomedical engineer who built this device‚ and even less people consider the virtues that engineer learned in their undergraduate degree. Consider the outcomes of this scenario if the person who built that device
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1989‚ Vol. 57‚ No. 6‚1069-1081 Copyright 1989 by the American Psychological Association‚ Inc. 0022-3514/89/SOO. 75 Happiness Is Everything‚ or Is It? Explorations on the Meaning of Psychological Well-Being Carol D. Ryff University of Wisconsin—Madison Reigning measures of psychological well-being have little theoretical grounding‚ despite an extensive literature on the contours of positive functioning. Aspects of well-being derived from this
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The Lost City of Atlantis By:Braydin welch “The world is full of unsolved mysteries the ocean is one of the biggest mysteries‚ from walls found to big plane areas of architecture it all leads to the myth of Atlantis.” (A).Atlantis was once a wondrous city‚ but archaeologists and deep sea divers have not yet found it. Many scholars‚archaeologists‚ and deep sea divers work to find the answers behind the mysteries every day. The only record of Atlantis is in Plato’s writing‚ but there is no specific
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“Happiness depends on ourselves‚” according to Aristotle. Aristotle preserves happiness as a central purpose of human life and a goal in itself. He dedicated most of his work to the topic of happiness‚ more than any philosopher prior to the modern era. Aristotle was convinced that a genuinely happy life required the fulfillment of a broad range of conditions‚ including physical as well as mental well-being. In this way he introduced the idea of a science of happiness in the classical sense‚ in terms
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1. Roberts highlights the many misconceptions of humility. Some equate humility with pride. Those who lack “worldly success” (Roberts‚ 79) compete with others in terms of morality. The poor seek to beat the wealthy. Therefore‚ they lack humility because of their focus on competition. Roberts explains how‚ “they are humbling themselves in order to be exalted” (Roberts‚ 80). Others liken humility with low self confidence and being submissive. Roberts explains that this is not humility but rather “deeply
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Utilitarianism: Bentham – Hedonic Calculus Bentham was a hedonist – he believed that pleasure is good in itself‚ and other things are good in so far as they bring about pleasure and the absence of pain. “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters‚ pain and pleasure.” You could work out which action to perform by calculating which option brought about the greatest amount of pleasure: Duration – how long does the pleasure last? Remoteness – how distant is the pleasure?
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little flower.” When you were young‚ happiness was simple; now that you’ve grown up‚ simplicity is happiness. Do you still remember the childhood you spend with beautiful nature‚ fragrant of grasses and blooming flowers? Back to the Latin word “eudaimonia”: the highest good for human beings. Actually the explanation to this complicated word sometimes can be very simple‚ just a bunch of flower can bring good mood whole day to you. The presence of flower triggers positive emotions and increases
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can acquire or the land he earns (Parry‚ 2013). In addition‚ he states that labor creates and legitimizes property. This signifies that this Property differs from person to person. Precisely and according to Locke‚ each individual produces a different amount of labor. Thus‚ each one deserves a different amount of property. Each person has responsibility over his own private property or land to take care of it and cultivate it as well-cultivated land produces more than a land which is not cultivated
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As educators we are challenged with the questions “Why?” from our students on a daily basis. We generally have an intuition about how we arrived at this conclusion‚ but how are we going to actually explain this rule of thinking. Just like when we are faced to make behavioral decisions. Will we judge our decision on the situation and the student‚ the protocol‚ or the consequence about the decision.. Educators or leaders make this decision based on whether they are idealist or pragmatist. Idealism
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psychological‚ emotional and social needs met. Evidence of individual flourishing can include family relationships‚ friendships and employment. Virtues are actions that behave in certain ways that lies between two extremes. Aristotle’s moral philosophy of eudaimonia includes five virtues which define flourishing as living a virtuous life (Aristotle‚ 2009). The virtues are: 1. Temperance- Calming one’s bodily passions and desires 2. Wittiness- Being around people who are funny and lighten the mood 3. Spiritedness-
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