Heidegger's "Memorial Address," ¶10
The Problems with Calculative Thinking
Post Summary
Heidegger defines thoughtlessness not as the absence of thinking, but as a deficient kind of thinking that dominates modern life.
He names this mode calculative thinking.
Calculative thinking has four main characteristics:
it has a means-end orientation
it is efficiency driven
it restlessly moves from one task to another (or to more productive ve…
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