PHIL 1033 Lecture 17: MOL 10.24.16
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Iii. how we start to see our surroundings, and each other the standing-reserve = resource for us to use (17: hard to get out of a habit of seeing things that way. Human resources (18: second notice! , urgent information about your mortgage! Using people: people are resources for our use, wants us to resist. Enframing literally a force (19) frames our perspective- things seen as resources to be used efficiently. When we use technology we are pouncing on nature: the four kinds of causality and technology"s impact on them. Materials, our goals and purposes, the ideas that are available. When an outsider all activities look like fuzz. Once we are in then we can understand. We think we are in control, but we don"t notice the hold of enframing. Where enframing holds sway (27, 24) the best case scenario is to see things as resources but also see the other things.