Heidegger’s Meditative Thinking as a Remedy from the Tragedy of Calculative Thinking Towards Poetic Dwelling

Resty Ruel Ventura Borjal

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Heidegger’s Meditative Thinking as a Remedy from the Tragedy of Calculative Thinking Towards Poetic Dwelling

Resty Ruel Ventura Borjal

Published in International Journal of Philosophy (Volume 9, Issue 4)

Received: 27 October 2021 Accepted: 22 November 2021 Published: 2 December 2021

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The diversified character of technological dominance causes an intense discomfort to all dimensions of human life which also calls for environmental concerns. It very is evident that technological culture challenges humanity and the world around us, but it also has the potential to help us realize the emergence of another perspective that prepares a way out from humanity’s confinement in a technological, scientific, and manipulated view of nature. Initially, this study contemplates concerning the work of Martin Heidegger on the essence of technology and the extent to which technological advancement has caused existential enframing, and the outcome of which is meditative thinking, as the essence of thinking. It argues that Heidegger’s assertion towards a kind of thinking can be seen as a remedy to the crisis brought by calculative and technological thinking. It enlightens us in dealing with our vulnerable position as it reveals the reality of the technological attitude of “enframing.” Second, this study analyzes that this technological challenge would guide humanity into a new approach thereby leading towards the withdrawal from the dominance of calculative thinking as the essence of technology amid technological culture. Lastly, this study demonstrates that through “poetic dwelling” humanity develops a new disposition that opens up a better perspective that allows humanity’s authentic existence.

Published in	International Journal of Philosophy (Volume 9, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijp.20210904.17
Page(s)	221-228
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Martin Heidegger, Enframing, Meditative Thinking, Calculative Thinking, A Poetic Dwelling

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Department of Social Sciences, Central Luzon State University, Science City of Mu?oz, Nueva Ecija, Philippines

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