Blog #4 Technology And The Lifeworld

Ihde starts the chapter by first telling us how a life or world without technology must be a imaginative world that is non-existent. Ihde uses three well known philosophers and some of their more famous examples such as Heidegger's Hammer example is a typical workshop example that Heidegger was known for. This example puts the hammer a basic tool into a surrounding environment and from there he applies his knowledge of phenomenology. In Husserl's Galileo he uses the examples of two worlds the bodily one were we live and the new one in which he uses much geometry and looks at a prescientific life world. The last and final example that Ihde uses is Merleau-Ponty's Feather were Ponty talks about the use of material and how it can extend our existing bodies through perception which Ponty speaks of, through what he calls "embodiment relations". In the end I believe that these philosophers all see the big picture that technology is a way of our life and without it life would almost certainly be non-existent.