ABSTRACT

The question of the good life has come to play a substantive role in the ethics of technology. To mention just a few examples, Albert Borgmann convincingly shows how deeply technology has become interwoven with contemporary ways of answering the question of the good life (Borgmann 1984 Higgs, Light, and Strong 2000), Tsjalling Swierstra analyzes how complicated it is to bring questions of the good life into public ethical deliberation (Swierstra 2000), and Philip Brey assesses the impact of new media on the quality of life (Brey 1998).