A.

Topic on Human Flourishing: Analyze the human condition in order to reflect and express
philosophical ramifications that are meaningful to the students as a part of the society.

Human flourishing is defined as an effort to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment

within the context of a larger community of individuals, each with the right to pursue his or her
own such efforts. It encompasses the uniqueness, dignity, diversity, freedom, happiness, and
holistic well-being of the individual within the larger family, community, and population.
Achieving human flourishing is a life-long existential journey of hopes, achievements, regrets,
losses, illness, suffering, and coping.
Now according to Aristotle about Human Flourishing is that each man's life has a
purpose and that the function of one's life is to attain that purpose. He explains that the
purpose of life is earthly happiness or flourishing that can be achieved via reason and the
acquisition of virtue. Articulating an explicit and clear understanding of the end toward which a
person's life aims, Aristotle states that each human being should use his abilities to their fullest
potential and should obtain happiness and enjoyment through the exercise of their realized
capacities. He contends that human achievements are animated by purpose and autonomy and
that people should take pride in being excellent at what they do. According to Aristotle, human
beings have a natural desire and capacity to know and understand the truth, to pursue moral
excellence, and to instantiate their ideals in the world through action.

B. Topic on the Good Life: Examine shared concerns that make up the good life in order to come up
with innovative, creative solutions to contemporary issues guided by ethical standards

What is the meaning of Good Life? There are only two paths to choose in life. You can
either be a person of principle or a person of doubt. The first empowers you to act and become
a person of virtue, and hence realize the good life, whereas the latter will make you choose
temporal things, but soon you will succumb to what is called a life of vice. In the end, ethics is
about our ability to answer not only what can make a person happy but also how one is able to
realize the meaning of this happiness. For Aristotle, the purpose of the individual is not just to
know what is good or right. Ethics is linked to practical knowledge. The moral path is about
doing and acting. In possessing practical wisdom, the task at hand is to be able to live the good
life. For Aristotle, the purpose of ethics is not to acquire a theoretical knowledge of the good.
The goal of ethics is not to inquire about the meaning of virtue, but to be able to practice it to
realize the good life. The good life is eudaimonia or happiness— “the state of living well.”

One good documentary is the “That Sugar Film”. The film follows an experiment on
himself, changing from his normal diet containing no refined sugar, to a 'health-conscious' diet
low in fat but high in sugar, equivalent to 200 grams (40 tsp) of sugar per day. As a result,
Gameau gained weight, grew lethargic, and developed fatty liver disease. The sugar diet was
selected such that his calorie intake was not increased from his normal diet. Interviews with
experts attribute this change to the high level of sugar he is ingesting, and in particular suggest
that fructose may be the main culprit. It is suggested that artificial sweeteners may be no better.
The viewers are introduced to the "bliss point", a term coined in the 1960s which applies here to
the amount of sugar you can add to a food to make it optimally desirable. Adding more sugar
 beyond the "bliss point" leads to significant drop in desirability. Following the experiment, he
returned to his previous diet, and the ill effects are largely and quickly reversed.

C. Topic on When Technology and Humanity Cross: Examine Human rights in order to uphold such
rights in technological ethical dilemmas

We’ve come a long way since we started inventing and developing technology. One goo
example is robots. Now robots are invented so that they can do a work faster and safer than
humans. But now with robotics becoming advance, A.I. are becoming a thing. A robot that has a
mind of a computer and has a consciousness of a human. Scientists are already beginning to
think seriously about the new ethical problems posed by current developments in robotics.
Experts in South Korea said they were drawing up an ethical code to prevent humans abusing
robots, and vice versa. And, a group of leading roboticists called the European Robotics Network
(Euron) has even started lobbying governments for legislation. At the top of their list of concerns
is safety. Robots were once confined to specialist applications in industry and the military,
where users received extensive training on their use, but they are increasingly being used by
ordinary people. Robot vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers are already in many homes, and
robotic toys are increasingly popular with children.

As these robots become more intelligent, it will become harder to decide who is
responsible if they injure someone. Is the designer to blame, or the user, or the robot itself?

D. Topic on why the Future Not Need Us: Evaluate Contemporary Human Experience in Order to
Strengthen and Enlighten the Human Person Functioning in Society

There’s this article entitle “Why the Future doesn’t need us” by Bill Joy, co-founder of
Sun Microsystems. Joy argues that developing technologies provide a much greater danger to
humanity than any technology before has ever presented. In particular, he focuses on genetic
engineering, nanotechnology and robotics. He argues that 20th-century technologies of
destruction such as the nuclear bomb were limited to large governments, due to the complexity
and cost of such devices, as well as the difficulty in acquiring the required materials. He uses the
novel The White Plague as a potential nightmare scenario, in which a mad scientist creates a
virus capable of wiping out humanity. Joy also voices concern about increasing computer power.
His worry is that computers will eventually become more intelligent than we are, leading to such
dystopian scenarios as robot rebellion. He notably quotes Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) on
this topic.
References:

- https://www.templetonworldcharity.org/projects/science-of-human-flourishing
- http://www.nln.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/human-flourishing-
final.pdf?sfvrsn=0
- http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199552733.001.0001/acprof
-9780199552733-chapter-5
- http://www.quebecoislibre.org/031122-11.htm
- https://opinion.inquirer.net/112217/meaning-good-life
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6432307.stm