Chapter 2: Technology as Way of Revealing

Question 1

Can be defined as the advancement of scientific knowledge to solve simple to complex problems of the manner in which a task is finished using different technical processes.

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Technology

Question 2

A man acclaimed for his works on metaphysics, phenomenology, and existentialism.

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Martin Heidegger

Question 3

It criticizes technology because of its limiting nature that prevents further understanding of its true essence.

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The Question Concerning Technology by Martin Heidegger

Question 4

He does not problematize existence of technology or its many forms but the way people orient themselves around technology.

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Heidegger

Question 5

Technology can be understood based on its two functions:

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Instrumental and Anthropological

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means to an end

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Instrumental

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means human activity

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Anthropological

Question 8

Aristotle’s four causes:

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Material cause
Formal cause
Final cause
Efficient cause

Question 9

the material out of which an object is made.

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Material cause

Question 10

the shape or form of the object as it was produced.

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Formal cause

Question 11

the purpose or function of the object

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Final cause

Question 12

which causes change in an object

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Efficient cause

Question 13

The taking of each of the causes with meticulous consideration to create the final product.

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Bringing-forth

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Bringing-forth two categories:

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Poiesis and Physis

Question 15

Is the bringing-forth of an object into existence from creation or art, practice by craftsmen and poets.

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Poiesis

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Is the bringing forth of an object from nature , which is a self-producing process of coming into existence.

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Physis

Question 17

Comes from the Greek term technikon, related to the greek term techne.

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Technology

Question 18

As in technique, is both a skill of manufacture and art.

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Techne

Question 19

means “know-how” or is defined, in the widest sense, as one’s expertise in a particular field.

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Techne

Question 20

According to him, the act of bringing-forth is grounded in the act of uncovering.

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Heidegger

Question 21

He clarifies that technology is not a mere means but rather, a mode of revealing.

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Heidegger

Question 22

meaning unconcealment or truth

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Aletheia

Question 23

This is the essence of technology

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a revealing of truth

Question 24

A concept that means that the world’s resources are not “good” on its own but are only “good for” something else.

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Standing reserve

Question 25

is focused on “setting-upon”, which challenges nature in providing the energy that it needs that delays nature’s potential to be “revealed”.

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Modern technology

Question 26

Two different ways modern technology challenges nature to provide energy:

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1.) How modern technology unlocks the energy from natural resources and exposes the object for whatever purpose it may hold.
2.) How modern technology is able to maximize the use of the given object while using the bare minimum expenditure..

Question 27

He reiterates that modern technology, as a revealing, is no mere human doing.

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Heidegger

Question 28

challenges humanity to do something with nature—to manipulate nature by ordering and directing it to transform it from being a standing-reserve into the revealing.

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Modern technology

Question 29

Stems from what Heidegger refers to as the “frame of mind” that drives humans to a precise scientific knowledge and renewed perception of the world.

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Enframing

Question 30

The gathering of what humanity is setting-upon and revealing that the essence of modern technology is not technological.

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Enframing