Environmental Ethics

Martin Heidegger and Environmental Ethics

http://www2.hmc.edu/~tbeckman/personal/Heidart.html

This article is by Martin Heidegger regarding his views of technology and how it is affecting our environment. The article also includes how the essence of art adds to our environment. Art enriches our culture and reinforces good environmental practices. Our attention is focused too much on the technology that surrounds or lives, that we lose the essence of the environment. "Whether we embrase technology, or condemn it, for we are all equally enslaved by our misunderstanding of what technology actually is."Heidegger portrays a different sense to technology as something that should not be just a part of our lives, but something we use in addition to the environment. It is really important to openly think about how much technology is involved in our lives. Heidegger's article is apart of works that influence us to think more openly.