LESSON 1

Question 1

is a way of bringing forth, a making of something

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technology

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• 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

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Martin Heidegger

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is defined as bringing forth

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Poesis

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means unhiddenness or disclosure

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Aletheia

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for ___, it means making or predicting something for a purpose

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Aristotle

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means skill, art or craft. It is a means of bringing forth something

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techne (the root word for technology)

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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

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Human flourishing

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Flourishing in human as stated by___, it is as a result of different components such as phronesis, friendship, wealth and power.

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Aristotle

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it is a commone topic of Greek philosophy because of its practical character

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Phronesis

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state of being rich and material prosperity

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Wealth

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is a state of being friends as a relationship between to person

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Friendship

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is a term coined by renowned Greek Philosopher Aristotle (385-323 BC) to describe the pinnacle of happiness that is attainable by humans

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Eudamonia

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• 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

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verification theory

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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

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American philosopher Thomas Kuhn

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• 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

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falsification theory

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is the known proponent of falsification theory

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Karl Popper

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“Questioning is the piety of thought”, stated

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Martin Heidegger

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• 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

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Enframing

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In looking at the world, Heidegger distinguished between

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calculable thinking and meditative thinking

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as mentioned earlier, 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 let nature reveal itself to him/her without forcing it

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meditative thinking

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is not found in the instrumentality and functioned of machine constructed, but in the significance such technology unfolds

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essence of technology

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is the way in which things are, as
that which endures

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Essence

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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

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Holderlin

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the matter out of which, for example, a silver chalice is made

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The causa Material (the materials)

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the shape into which the material enters

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The causa formalis, (the form)

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for example, the sacrificial rite in relation to which the chalice required is determined as to its form and matter

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The causa finalis, (the end)

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which brings about the
effect that is the finished, actual chalice, in this instance the silversmith. What technology is,
when represented as a means, discloses itself when we trace instrumentality back to fourfold causality.

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The causa effeciens,

Question 29

is responsible for bringing forth

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Aition