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Passion, Activity, and “The Care of the Self”
Author(s) -
EDWARDS JAMES C.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3528312
Subject(s) - passion , self care , psychology , social psychology , political science , law , health care
To ask whether we should use Prozac or other technologies as “enhancement” is perhaps to ask the wrong question, one that belongs to a life of what Heidegger discerned as technological ordering ( die Technik ). We might better ask a question belonging to a life of receptivity ( Gelassenheit ): Can or should we—some of us—live differently than we do?