Martin Heidegger

Question 1

The word technology comes from the Greek word -, which means skill, art, or craft.

Answer 1

techne

Question 2

The word technology comes from the Greek word-techne, which means?

Answer 2

skill, art, or craft

Question 3

According to these views, technology is a means to and end and human activity.

Answer 3

anthropological and instrumental

Question 4

Is merely a tool or instrument that is aimed at getting things done faster and easier.

Answer 4

Technology

Question 5

He is a famous philosopher of technology in the 20th century who wrote “The Question Concerning Technology”, urges us to question technology by seeing beyond people’s common understanding of it.

Answer 5

Martin Heidegger

Question 6

In his essays, he simplifies technology into its fundamental being to uncover its essence. This is through defining technology in relation to explanations of instrumentality, causality and revealing.

Answer 6

The Question Concerning Technology

Question 7

Technology is an instrument human use as a “means to an end” and “a human activity to be mastered; it is a way of getting things done.

Answer 7

Instrumentality

Question 8

Instruments are developed to cause, bring forth, occasion and presence and end.

Answer 8

Causality

Question 9

Bringing forth something; uncover something that was concealed.

Answer 9

Revealing

Question 10

The essence of Technology is by no means anything that is technological.

Who said this?

Answer 10

Martin Heidegger

Question 11

According to Martin Heidegger, the essence of blank is a way of revealing. It is to uncover something that was concealed; therefore, it reveals the truth.

Answer 11

Technology

Question 12

Heidegger asserted that the truth can be pursued through the correct.

Answer 12

Technology as a mode of revealing

Question 13

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 13

Martin Heidegger

Question 14

It is an activity that produces something that was not there before. Something has been made present through the processes of occasioning.

Answer 14

Poiesis

Question 15

Occasioning comes from the Greek word blank-which means to cause.

Answer 15

Aita

Question 16

It brings forth new technology in which it reveals something in the world we live in.

Answer 16

Poeisis

Question 17

Refers to the source of raw materials necessary for the creation of the desired products. Heidegger states that “Everywhere, everything is ordered to stand by, to be immediately at hand so that it may be call for further ordering.

Answer 17

Standing Reserve

Question 18

He discusses product life cycle processes to explain the relationship between humans and world resources.

Answer 18

Martin Heidegger

Question 19

Heidegger refers to the relationship between humans and resources as blank.

Answer 19

Enframing

Question 20

Means the orientation or the attitude of humans towards the world. Humanity’s enframing is the essence of technology. Once humans perceive their orientation or attitude towards technology, a free relationship will then be established.

Answer 20

Enframing

Question 21

He believes that enframing is both a “danger” and a “saving power.

Answer 21

Martin Heidegger

Question 22

It is a “danger” because humanity can be destructive with too much control over nature and lose sight of the world revealing itself and knowing the truth.

Answer 22

Enframing as a danger

Question 23

It is a “saving power” as humans are responsible for the world. By communing and aligning ourselves with nature and viewing the world from a poet’s or artist’s perspective, Heidegger believes that humanity’s action towards the world is not destructive.

Answer 23

Enframing as a saving power

Question 24

Comparable to theoretical knowledge. Explains the nature or principles behind an object, event or phenomenon

Answer 24

Science

Question 25

Comparable to practical knowledge. Applies the theoretical knowledge in order to have an output

Answer 25

Technology

Question 26

Aristotle said that humans flourish by

Answer 26

Gaining new knowledge

Question 27

Is a systematic body of knowledge that seeks to explain and understand life and the world.

Answer 27

Science

Question 28

What is unconcealmeant in Griyego?

Answer 28

Aletheia