Module 4: "Science and Technology and The Human Conditions" Flashcards
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
Technology brings about change causally
Causality
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
The cause is what is responsible for the effect, and the effect is indebted to the cause
Causality
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
According to Aristotle, there are four ways in which this relation holds
Casuality
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
The unifying notion is that of starting something on its way to arrival
Causality
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
Being responsible is an inducing to go forward
Causality
Causality
Being responsible is an inducing to go ________
forward
Causality
According to _________, there are four ways in which this relation holds
Aristotle
Causality
______ brings about change causally
Technology
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
underlies causality is a bringing out of concealment
Bringing forth
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
This revealing is what the Greeks call truth
Bringing forth
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
Technology brings forth as well, and it is a revealing
Bringing forth
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
This is seen in the way the Greeks understood techne, which encompasses not only craft, but other acts of the mind, and poetry
Bringing forth
Bringing forth
This is seen in the way the Greeks understood ______, which encompasses not only craft, but other acts of the mind, and poetry
techne
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
Both primitive crafts and modern technology are revealing
Modern Technology
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
But the revealing of modern technology is not a bringing-forth,
but a challenging-forth
Modern Technology
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
It challenges nature, by extracting something from it and
transforming it, storing it up, distributing it, etc.
Modern Technology
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
Modern technology takes all of nature to stand in reserve for its
exploitation
The standing-reserve
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
Man is challenged to do this, and as such he becomes part of
the standing reserve
The standing-reserve
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
Man becomes the instrument of technology, to be exploited in
the ordering of nature
The standing-reserve
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
It is not man that orders nature through technology, but a
more basic process of revealing
Enframing
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
The challenge of this revealing is called “enframing”
Enframing
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
the actual is revealed as a standing-reserve
Enframing
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
This is “historically” prior to the development of science
Enframing
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
______ is the essence of technology
Enframing
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
Men are sent upon the way of revealing the actual as a standing-reserve
destining
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
So enframing, and hence technology, is a “_______”
destining
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
The destining of man to reveal nature carries with it the danger of misconstrual
destining
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
Man is in danger of becoming merely part of the standing- reserve
The danger
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
Alternatively, he may find only himself in nature
The danger
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
Most importantly, he may think that the ordering of the world through technology is the fundamental mode of revealing
The danger
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
So the real threat of technology comes from its essence, not its activities or products
The danger
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
The poet Hölderlin writes that the saving power grows where danger is
The saving power
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
The saving would allow a bringing-forth that is not a challenging-forth (things would reveal themselves not just as standing-reserve)
The saving power
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
Both technology and bringing-forth grow out of “granting,” which allows revealing
The saving power
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
Poetry and other arts have the power to reveal, in the sense of “bringing-forth”
The art of saving power
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
But it is also fundamentally different from technology
The art of saving power
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING
It may be the best means for getting at the essence of technology itself
The art of saving power
The art of saving power
Poetry and other arts have the power to reveal, in the sense of “__________”
bringing-forth
The saving power
Both technology and bringing-forth grow out of “______,” which allows revealing
granting
The saving power
The poet ______writes that the saving power grows where danger is
Hölderlin
