LESSON 1 Flashcards
(29 cards)
is a way of bringing forth, a making of something
technology
- urges us to question technology and see beyond people’s common understanding of it
- asserted that the true can be pursued through the correct. In other words, the experience and understanding of what is correct lead us to what is true
Martin Heidegger
is defined as bringing forth
Poesis
means unhiddenness or disclosure
Aletheia
for ___, it means making or predicting something for a purpose
Aristotle
means skill, art or craft. It is a means of bringing forth something
techne (the root word for technology)
is defined as an effort to achieve self-actualization, and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals, each with the right to pursue his/her own such efforts
Human flourishing
Flourishing in human as stated by___, it is as a result of different components such as phronesis, friendship, wealth and power.
Aristotle
it is a commone topic of Greek philosophy because of its practical character
Phronesis
state of being rich and material prosperity
Wealth
is a state of being friends as a relationship between to person
Friendship
is a term coined by renowned Greek Philosopher Aristotle (385-323 BC) to describe the pinnacle of happiness that is attainable by humans
Eudamonia
- the earliest criterion that
distinguishes philosophy and
science is - a discipline is
science if it can be confirmed or
interpreted in the event of an
alternative hypothesis being
accepted
verification theory
warned us against bridging the gap between and theory by
attempting to interpret the former according to our biases, that is whether or not we subscribe to the
theory
American philosopher Thomas Kuhn
- asserts that as long as an ideology is not proven to be false and can best explain a phenomenon over alternative theories, we should accept the said ideology
- Karl Popper is the known proponent of this view
falsification theory
is the known proponent of falsification theory
Karl Popper
“Questioning is the piety of thought”, stated
Martin Heidegger
- way of revealing in modern technology is an
- it is as if nature is put in box or in
frame so that it can be better understood and controlled according to people’s desire
Enframing
In looking at the world, Heidegger distinguished between
calculable thinking and meditative thinking
as mentioned earlier, one orders and puts a system to nature so it can be understood better and controlled
calculative thinking
one let nature reveal itself to him/her without forcing it
meditative thinking
is not found in the instrumentality and functioned of machine constructed, but in the significance such technology unfolds
essence of technology
is the way in which things are, as
that which endures
Essence
As expressed by the poet __, “But where danger is, grows the saving power alos”. The saving power lies in the essence of technology as technology
Holderlin
