Terms+and+Definitions

**Back to Sustainability by Design Home** __//Objective Reality//__: everyday, objective way of holding reality (pp 24) __//Homo economicus//__: Human’s constant attempt to make the most of things, using resources to maximize their ability to satisfy self (pp 27) __Authenticity__: a sense of wholeness, the degree to which ones actions lead to an understanding of what it means to be human An excess in the number of choices has a negative effect and can become a sort of “tyranny” __Commodities__: the result of the devices by which we satisfy our needs (40) these devices meet the symptoms of our needs but neglect our sense of being. __Affluenza__: The bloated sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that comes as a result of trying to keep up with the Joneses” ( 42)which we commodity both objects and non objects like love and beauty and attempt to obtain these through the consumption. __Sustainability__ : the possibility that humans and other life will flourish on the earth forever.Possibilities: Bringing forth from nothingness something we desire to become present. (49) __Flourishing__: has to do with more than our own selfish attachments (50), Even those in poverty can flourish.” The emergence of of a set of desirable, healthy qualities from one’s being in the world , simply living everyday “ 55 __Dignity__: something special and essential to the good life. Living one’s life according to ones values” (51)