Mid Terms Flashcards
He is the most incomprehensible German Philosopher that ever lived
Martin Heidegger
- Author of “Being and Time”
- diagnosed modern humanity as suffering from a number of diseases of the soul
Martin Heidegger
What is the First disease by Martin Heidegger?
We have forgotten to notice we’re alive
- we aren’t day-to-day properly in touch with the sheer mystery of existence, the mystery of what Heidegger called “das Sein” or in English, Being
What is the Second disease by Martin Heidegger?
We have forgotten that all Being is connected
- jobs and daily routines make us egoistic and focused, we treat others and nature as means and not as ends
- sometimes we may step outside our narrow orbit - and take a more expansive view
Third disease by Martin
We forget to be free and to live for ourselves
- we are thrown into the world at the start of our lives (thrown into a narrow social milieu, surrounded by rigid attitudes, archaic prejudices and practical necessities not of our own making)
The uncanny strangeness of everything
Being
States that everything being in existence right now and are fundamentally united by the basic fact of our common Being
Unity in being
finding meaning in life and the world
Human Flourishing
Pursuit of the good life
- Eudaimonia
technology will be judged as either good or bad based on the value given to the product based on its use and effect on society (who viewed it this way?)
ARISTOTELIANIS
Aristotle
Although technology is progressive and beneficial in many ways, it is also doubtful in many ways. (Jacques Ellul)
Technological Progress has a price
Technological Progress creates more problems
Technological Progress creates damaging effects
Technological Progress creates unpredictable devastating effects
TECHNOLOGICAL PESSIMISM
Technology can alleviate all difficulties and provide solutions for problems that may come.
TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIMISM
Technology as the supreme authority on everything
TECHNOCRATISM
It could either be an instrument(means to an end) or a process (humana activity)
Serves as a means to an end
Provides convenience, knowledge and ensure good quality of life
(Who viewed it this way?)
TECHNOLOGY (for Heidegger)
Aristotle’s Causes of Being (4)
What do they mean?
Causa Materialis or the Material Cause
Causa Formalis or the Formal Cause
Causa Finalis or the Final Cause
Causa Efficiens or the Efficient Cause
T or F
Martin Heidegger stated technology is a way of revealing
True
- “Technology is a way of bringing forth.”
- It shows so much more about the human person and the world.
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
To bringing forth of something that discloses;
ALETHEIA
POIESIS
reveals the truth through techne (art)
ALETHEIA
- It is characterized as challenging forth
- It challenges nature and demands its resources. (forcibly extracted for human consumption and storage.)
Modern Technology
T or F
“We need to work with the rhythms of nature because we have not learned to control it”
“We no longer need to work with the rhythms of nature because we have learned to control it”
What did Martin Heidegger established about “Being” or “Dasein”? (2)
Dasein exists in this world.
Dasein has a self that defines it as it exists in such a world. (purpose)
The highest goal of humanity is the good life or “human flourishing” (eudaimonia, happiness)
Developing virtues is the way to achieve a rich and satisfying life.
Virtues make us good persons—and help us live a good life.
These are all said by whom?
Aristotle: father of Virtue Ethics
A term that combines the Greek word “good” and “spirit” to describe the ideology.
It defines happiness as the pursuit of becoming a better person.
They do this by challenging themselves intellectually or by engaging in activities that make them spiritually richer people. (Who are ‘they’?)
Eudaimonia
Eudaimonists
