Human Flourishing in Science and Technology

Question 1

The __________________, as both bearer and beneficiary of science and technology, flourishes and finds meaning in the world that he/she builds.

Answer 1

Human person

Question 2

He is a German philosopher who says that science and technology must be taken as part of human life that merits reflective and meditative thinking.

Answer 2

Martin Heidegger

Question 3

The _________________________________________________ are all tools that make human lives easier because they serve as a means to an end. ​

Their utility lies on providing people with a certain good, convenience, or knowledge.

Answer 3

Various gadgets, machines, appliances, and vehicles.

Question 4

He urged people to envision technology as a mode of revealing as it shows so much more about the human person and the world.

Answer 4

Heidegger

Question 5

__________ is a way of bringing forth, a making something.

Answer 5

Technology

Question 6

Heidegger also put forward the ancient Greek concepts of ________, ________, and _________.

Answer 6

Aletheia, poiesis, and techne

Question 7

This ancient Greek concept means unhidden or disclosure.​

Answer 7

Aletheia

Question 8

This ancient Greek concept is defined as bringing forth.

Answer 8

Poiesis

Question 9

This ancient Greek concept means skill, art, or craft.

Answer 9

Techne

Question 10

To Heidegger’s work, technology is a _________ that discloses or reveals the truth.

Answer 10

Poiesis

Question 11

We order nature, and extract, process, make ready for consumption, and store what we have forced it to reveal.

Answer 11

Technology as Poiesis

Question 12

With modern technology, revealing never comes to an end. The revealing always happens on our terms as everything is on demand. ​

Information at our fingertips, food harvested even out of season, gravity defied to fly off to space – such is the capacity of the human person.

Answer 12

Technology as Poiesis

Question 13

Modern technology challenges nature and demands of it resources that are, most of the time, forcibly extracted for human consumption and storage. It brings about a “setting upon” of the land. ​

Mining is an example of modern technology that challenges forth and brings about the setting upon of land.

Answer 13

Technology as Poiesis

Question 14

Normally, piety is associated with being religious. For Heidegger, however, piety means _________ and ______________. ​

In addressing what technology has brought forth, one cannot help but be submissive to what his/her thoughts and reflections elicit.

Answer 14

Obedience and submission. ​

Question 15

Whatever understanding is found becomes significant because it is evoked by questioning who or what we essentially are in the world. ​

For example, it is a known truth that we, human beings and everything around us, are made of the same substances that constitute the stars. Therefore, we are actually stardust.

Answer 15

Questioning as a Piety of Thought​

Question 16

This kind of questioning leads one to search for his/her place in the universe and in the grand scale of things.

Answer 16

Questioning as a Piety of Thought​

Question 17

This enframing that challenges forth and sets upon nature is a way of looking at reality. ​

In simpler terms, it is as if nature is put in a box or in a frame so that it can be better understood and controlled according to people’s desires.

Answer 17

Enframing: Way of Revealing in Modern Technology

Question 18

In ____________ thinking, one orders and puts a system to nature so it can be understood better and controlled.

Answer 18

Calculative

Question 19

In _________________ thinking, one lets nature reveal itself to him/her without forcing it.

Answer 19

Meditative

Question 20

People also want control and are afraid of unpredictability, so _______________ thinking is more often used.

Answer 20

Calculative

Question 21

______________ is done because people want security, even if the ordering that happens in this is violent and even if the Earth is made as a big gasoline station from which we extract, stockpile, and put in standing-reserve, ready to be used as we see fit.

Answer 21

Enframing

Question 22

If we allow ourselves to get swallowed by modern technology, we lose the essence of who we are as beings in this world. ​

If we are constantly plugged online and no longer have the capacity for authentic personal encounters, then we are truly swallowed by technology.

Answer 22

Human Person Swallowed by Technology​

Question 23

If we cannot leg to of the conveniences and profits brought about by processes and industries that pollute the environment and cause climate change, then technology has consumed our humanity.

Answer 23

Human Person Swallowed by Technology​

Question 24

The saving power lies in the essence of technology as technology. Essence is the way in which things are, as that which endures. ​

Heidegger further asserted that the “essence of technology is nothing technological.” The essence of technology is not found in the instrumentality and function of machines constructed, but in the significance such technology unfolds.

Answer 24

Human Person Swallowed by Technology​

Question 25

Enframing, as the mode of revealing in modern technology, tends to block poiesis. ​

The poetry that is found in nature can no longer be easily appreciated when nature is enframed. ​

In modern technology, the way of revealing is no longer poetic, it is challenging.

Answer 25

Art as a way out of enframing​

Question 26

Heidegger proposes ________________________________. With art, we are better able to see the poetic in nature in reality. ​

It leads us away from calculative thinking and towards meditative thinking. Through meditative thinking, we will recognize that nature is art par excellence.

Answer 26

Art as a way out of enframing​