Week 4-5 (Problem Sets)

Let’s Check

Activity 4. Classify the following practices of the human flourishing of the technology

it provides mentioned in the essential knowledge part of this unit.

Answers:

1. Technology as a mode of revealing

2. Technology as poiesis

3. Technology as poiesis

4. Art as a way out of enframing

5. Technology as a mode of revealing

6. Technology as poiesis

7. Meditative thinking

8. Human person swallowed by technology

9. Technology as a mode of revealing

10.Technology as a mode of revealing

Let’s Analyze

Activity 4. In this part, you are once again required to elaborate your answer

thoroughly on the question below:

1. How is technology a mode of revealing?

Ans. It reveals the truth about the world. With technological devices, we can easily

spread and save information around the world. If you are looking for the information
you want to know, with just one click, the answer you need will appear. Through this,

we can facilitate the connection of things in the world.

2. Why should technology be questioned?

Ans. For us to understand how technological things have an impact on our lives and

to allow us to be knowledgeable about any information that we can see on social

media, it is important for us to know that there are things that we should not spread,

especially if it is fake news or fake information. Not everything technological will give

us the right information; we must know the truth and we must not simply spread false

news. That’s why technology should be a concern.

Explain why Heidegger manifest the calculative thinking towards meditative thinking?

Ans. Heidegger manifest the calculative thinking towards meditative thinking to give

us a sense of stability so that we can resist letting technology corrupt our true selves.

Describe technology as a means to an end, and technology is a human activity?

Ans. Technology plays a huge role in our society. It makes our lives easier and safer.

Through technology everything is possible. Because of technology, we can

communicate with our loved ones who live far away. But we must set limits on how

we use technology in our lives so that we are not swallowed up by it in the future.

Let’s Check

Activity 5. Now that you’ve understood Hickel’s concept of de-development. You

require to explain the following ideas of the essential knowledge part of this unit.

1. What is the primary objective or purpose of the Sustainable Development Goals of

the United Nations?

Ans. The primary objective or purpose of the sustainable development goal of the

United Nation is to end extreme poverty, give people better healthcare and achieve

equality for women.

2. What is the standardized unit that measures resource use and waste?

Ans. 1.8 global hectares per year are the accepted unit for calculating resource

consumption and waste

3. What is the standard response to eradicate poverty?

Ans. The Sustainable Development Goal or SDGs.

4. What is the threshold of the Earth for adequately sustaining life?

Ans. The threshold of the Earth for adequately sustaining life is 1.9 hectares.

5. According to the majority of middle-and high-income countries, what puts the

planet and society at risk?

Ans. 70% of middle- and high-income countries believe that overconsumption is

putting our planet and society at risk.

6. How many hectares should each of us consume annually based on there sources

available on the planet?

Ans. Each of us consume 1.8 global hectares annually.

7-9. In this article, what are the two items about the quality of life?

Ans. Maintaining happiness and achieving long life expectancy.

10. What crisis on the planet would force us to slow down if we do not do so

voluntarily?
Ans. Climate change.

11. According to Dr. Jason Hickel, what must be done instead of urging developing

countries to 'catch up" with rich ones?

Ans. Rather of pushing poor countries to ‘catch up ’ with rich one, we should be

getting rich countries to ‘ catch down.

Enter

12. How would the different areas of the world react to the idea of de-development?

Ans. Even that production comes from existing developed nations, the concept of de-

development strongly discourages it. Because it tend to ignore the laws of nature.

Let’s Analyze

Activity 5. In this part, you are once again required to explain your answer thoroughly

on the questions below:

1. Why must we change our Paradigm of Growth and consumption to that of “de-

development?

Ans. We must change our paradigm of growth and consumption to that de-

development so that we can cannot experience manifestations, process, and causes

through a certain prism that can cause one to be disabled with opportunities, growth,

and success.

2. why are the terms, de-development, de-growth, and zero seemingly unacceptable

to the common framework of human progress?

Ans. We are limited as individuals by de-development, de-growth, and zero growth.

We are depriving ourselves of the opportunity to progress and mature in our own

special way.

3. How has the notion of growth enframing us?

Ans. The notion of growth enframes us by the procedure via which we contribute to

the economic growth of our country and it is also the determination of our living.

4. how do we improve our lives and yet reduce our consumption?

Ans. We have so many ways to improve our lives. just don’t make ourselves lazy to

work hard to earn money so that it will enable us to buy whatever we want, but we

can reduce consumption by giving to charity, neighbour, or donating and selling our

old stuff or things. Instead of tripping over things, we can minimize them and help

other. Also, doing those things will improve our lifestyle.

5. What are the similarities and differences between Heidegger’s The Question

Concerning Technology and Hickel’s article?

Ans. The similarities between Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology

and Heikel’s article are that they both advocate the principle of humanism and are

also environmentally friendly. And their differences are Heidegger’s The Question

Concerning Technology, which discusses and urges us to question the invention of

technology, and Hickel’s article , which focuses on sustainable development goals

(SDG’s).