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Human Flourishing in Science and Tech Flashcards

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The study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind and language.

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PHILOSOPHY

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Branches of Philosophy

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  1. Natural Philosophy
  2. Moral Philosophy-
  3. Metaphysical philosophy
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 German philosopher whose work is associated with phenomology and existentialism.

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MARTIN HEIDEGGER (1889-1976)

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 His ideas have exerted influence on the development of contemporary European philosophy.

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MARTIN HEIDEGGER (1889-1976)

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 His best-known work is Being and Time (1927). He gave a very impressive analysis of human existence, the prominence of the important themes of existentialism like care, anxiety, guilt and above all death is brought out here.

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MARTIN HEIDEGGER (1889-1976)

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 He begins “The Question Concerning Technology” by examining the relationship between human and technology, a relationship Heidegger calls a free relationship. If this relationship is free, it opens our human existence to the essence of technology”. This essence of technology, however, has nothing to do with technology. Rather, as Heidegger suggests, ‘The essence of a thing is considered to be what the thing is.”

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MARTIN HEIDEGGER (1889-1976)

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 Heidegger examines two definitions of technology. Firstly, he offers that “Technology is a means to an end”(Instrumental definition). Secondly, he proposes that “Technology is a human activity (Anthropological definition).

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MARTIN HEIDEGGER (1889-1976)

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  • ________begins by portraying his investigation of technology as the building of a path..
  • He examines the common understanding of technology as a neutral instrument under the control of humans.
  • He proposes to get to the true sense via the correct sense
  • He analyses the notion of instrumentality to reach the truth or the essence of technology- it is traced to causality.
  • He discusses the relation of modern science to the essence of technology-
    • He claims for the sciences the aggressive approach to nature that goes well with technology, but poorly with science.
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Heidegger

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is a very particular kind of revealing to, and the description articulates the key terms of Heidegger’s philosophy of technology: Modern technology challenges-forth nature to yield treasures to humans; technology sets-upon (positions and orders) the yields of nature so that they are available and of humans, becoming part of the standing reserve.

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Technology

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The enframing of technology is _______.

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destiny

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  • ________ is neither an inevitable fate that descends on humanity nor the result of human willing.
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Destiny

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  • There is a ________ danger to destiny.
    • One is the danger that human being reduces itself to standing reserve and in so appearing to have taken total control encounters nothing any more.
    • The other is the danger that the disclosure of the enframing forecloses every other dispensation and conceals that too is a disclosure.
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twofold

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Still the enframing is a ____________. It involves human being, therefore harbors the possibility of saving power.

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discolsure

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the material, the matter out of which an object is made.

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  1. Causa materialis
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the form, the shape into which the material enters.

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  1. Causa formalis
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which brings about the effect that is finished

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  1. Causa efficiens
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end

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  1. Causa finalis
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making something

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Bringing Forth

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 The bringing forth-________-which underlies causality is a bringing out of concealment.

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poesis

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 The revealing is what the Greeks call truth-_________- means unhiddedness or disclosure.

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Aletheia

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 _________ brings forth as well , and it is a revealing.

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Technology

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 This is seen in the way the Greeks understood ________, which encompasses not only craft, but other acts of the mind and poetry.

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techne

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 ________ characterizes modern technology as a challenging forth- very aggressive in its activity.

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Heidegger

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 With modern ________, revealing never comes to an end.

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technology

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 The _________ always happens on our own terms as everything is on demand.

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revealing

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 He also described modern technology as the age of switches, standing reserve and stockpiling for its own sake.

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Martin Heidegger

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  • means obedience and submission.
  •  One builds a way towards knowing the truth who he/ she is as a being in this world.
  •  Thus we shall never experience our relationship to the essence of technology so long as we merely represent and pursue the technological, put up with it, or evade it. Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly like to pay homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology (1977,p1)
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Piety

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 One orders and puts a system to nature so it can be understood better and controlled

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Calculative thinking

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 One lets nature reveal itself to him/ her without forcing it.

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Meditative thinking

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  1. Technology as a ____ __ _________
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Mode of Revealing

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  1. Technology as ________: Applicable to ______ ____________
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Poesis
Modern Technology

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  1. Questioning as the _____ __ _______
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Piety of Thought

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  1. Enframing: A way of Revealing in _______ _________
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Modern Technology

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  1. Human Person Swallowed by _________
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Technology

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  1. Art as a Way out of _________
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Enframing

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means unhiddenness or disclosure

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Aletheia

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is defined as bringing forth.

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Poesis

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is the root of technology

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Techne

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is associated with being religious.

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Piety

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