Name: Neilyn Jane M.

Barri

The Good Life

By: Heidegger, Hickel, and Barri

Your Take Away How is it related to the concept of

a “Good Life”

Heidegger’s “The Technology is a way of To relate with the concept of

Question of understanding the world, develops
Technology” beyond human control and its
allows us to see the world through
technological thinking.
“Good Life”, technology is one of
the reasons for advancement in all
sectors of the economy.
Technology affects almost every
aspect of 21st century life, from
transport efficiency and safety to
access to food and healthcare,
socialization and productivity. The
power of the internet has enabled
global communities to form ideas,
and it also provides a means to
achieve something faster and
easier.

Hickel’s “Forget Rich countries should slow down In relation to the concept of
‘developing’ poor their consumption so that poor “Good Life”, the idea is about
countries, it’s nations can catch up shifting of development to life
time to ‘de- expectancy and happiness instead
develop’ rich of economic growth. The concept
suggest that richer countries
Countries”
should ‘catch down” to poorer
countries instead of the latter
catching up to richer economies.
De-growth does not mean
poverty. On the contrary, de-
growth is perfectly compatible,
with high levels of human
development. it is entirely
possible for us to shrink our
resource consumption while
increasing things that really
matter such as human happiness,
well being education, health and
longevity.
A synthesis statement is summarizing or combining different ideas and putting together into one
powerful general point. Make a synthesis statement from all your take away from the articles given to
you for this unit.

Technology is both good and bad, depending on how it is utilized.

However, on heidegger’s concept, the technological thinking has
become the only form of thinking. Heidegger saw that the essence
of technology nowadays is enframing which means everything in
nature is “standing reserve”. Enframing is one way of uncovering,
which for heidegger meant truth. Truth can appear in many ways
and the danger is that this truth of representational-calculative
thinking becomes the only truth. We claim that the calculative way
of thinking becomes the only truth. We claim that the calculative
way of thinking must be changed.