STS AND THE
HUMAN
CONDITION
Start –Up Activity:
–Describe the HUMAN PERSON..MAN’S ROLE IN THE
The Human UNIVERSE, GIFT OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE MEANS
Person OF FULFILLING YOUR ULTIMATE DESTINY..
Flourishing
in Terms of
Science
and
Technolog
y
THE ESSENCE OF
TECHNOLOGY IS
BY NO MEANS
ANYTHING
TECHNOLOGICAL-
Martin Heidegger
Question:
HOW DOES
TECHNOLOGY CHANGES
US AND THE WORLD
AROUND US?
1. MAKES WORK EASIER…
2. CURES DISEASES ( ADVANCEMENT IN MEDICAL
HEALTH)
3. FOOD AND WATER SUPPLY
4. COMMUNICATION AND TRAVEL
5. EXPANDS OUR KNOWLEDGE
6. ENTERTAINMENT, LEISURE ETC.
“TECHNOLOG
Y HAS
ALWAYS
IT EMPOWERS BOTH OUR CREATIVE AND
BEEN A DESTRUCTIVE NATURE.
DOUBLE
–EDGE
SWORD”
Some Consequences of TECHNOLOGY
Technology that ease Consider the human
our labor can detach body as an object
us from the that can be
meaningful sense of engineered, modified
WORK. and immortalized.
Creates an
atmosphere of
indifference and
distance between
ourselves and
people near us.
Basic principles
of morality
and ethics
should not
change as a
result of new
technologies.
What does Human Flourishing
means?
It 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 or her own
such an effort.
Human Flourishing encompasses the uniqueness,
dignity, diversity, freedom, happiness, freedom,and
holistic well-being of individual..
It is a life-long existential journey of hopes,
achievements, sufferings, regrets, losses, illnesses and
coping.
Nature and Dignity of Human Person
Humans have a DIVINE ORIGIN.
Human Person and Human Body are DIVINE
GIFT deserving unconditional RESPECT.
Humans are ENDOWED with
REASON by GOD.
God endowed human with REASON
1. as a means to communicate with
one another
2. to strive after TRUTH
3. to care for His CREATION
KARL MARX-revolutionary Socialist
• Humans are naturally SOCIAL
BEINGS..
• To achieve TRUE Human Flourishing, an individual must first overcome the
different mechanisms of ALIENATION.
The estrangement
of humans from
aspects of human
What is
nature(set of vital
ALIENATION?
drives and
tendencies that
man expresses )
Each man has a
PURPOSE in LIFE and
ARISTOTLE the FUNCTION of
one’s life is to ATTAIN
that purpose.
What is the PURPOSE of life?
1. EARTHLY
2. FLOURISHING
HAPPINESS
It could be achieve through
REASON and ACQUISITION OF
VIRTUE.
How do we
achieve Each Human should use his
ABILITIES to the FULLEST POTENTIAL
this and should obtain HAPPINESS and
ENJOYMENT through the exercise
purpose? of their REALIZED CAPACITIES.
DESIRE and CAPACITY to
KNOW and UNDERSTAND the
HUMAN
TRUTH, to pursue MORAL
BEINGS have EXCELLENCE, and to instantiate
natural their IDEALS in the WORLD
through ACTION.
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF
REVEALING
Technology is thereforeno mere means. It is a
way of revealing. If we heed to this, then
another whole realm for the essence of
technology will open itself up to us. It is the
realm of revealing that is the truth- Martin
Heidegger.
Our Technological relationship with
nature
BEFORE: AS STEWARDS OF
NATURE
NOW: AS MASTER AND SLAVE
Two Ways of Understanding
Technology
1. INSTRUMENTAL – as
a means to an 2. AS A HUMAN
end-rest on the view ACTIVITY-
of causality, the anthropological view
material, the form, the of technology.
end and its effect.
Technology is a way of Revealing
Technology comes to
presence in the realm
Instrumentality is a characteristic of where revealing and
fundamental technology. unconcealment take
place, where TRUTH
happens.
•TECHNICAL
Traditional •MACHINES PROCEDURE
View of
Technolog
y
Understanding Technology based on
Essence- Heidegger
1. Technology is not something we make ; it is a mode
of being or revealing- i.e, technological things have
their own novel kind of presence, endurance, and
connections among parts and whole.
Revealing as used by Heidegger is TRUTH, about the
relationship of human and the world.
Revealing is more than just knowledge but embraces all the
ways in which we relate to the things of the world. Humans
are not just pure knowers. We have lives, goals , desires,
personalities and a position in history that play a role in
determining how we relate to the object around us.
2. Technology even holds sway over beings that we
don’t normally think of as technological such as
Gods and history. Emotion is also a way of revealing.
3. The essence of technology Heidegger discusses is
primarily a matter of modern and industrial
technology. The essence of technology is revealed
in Factories and industrial processes.
Technology is not simply the practical application
of natural science, instead modern science can
understand nature in the characteristically
scientific manner only because nature has
already in advance, come to light as a set of
calculable, orderable force.
Two Characteristics
of Modern Technology
as a Revealing Process
[Link] of revealing of modern
technology is CHALLENGING.-
it is putting to nature the
unreasonable demand that it
supplies energy which could
be extracted and stored.
• Nature reveal itself in
modern technology as
things of manipulation, as
man needs, he will use it.
“Artificial ordering”
CHALLENGES OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY
1. TO APPROACH
NATURE AS AN 2. ORDER THE REAL
“OBJECT OF AS STANDING
RESEARCH” TO RESERVE
REVEAL
ENFRAMING
The essence of modern technology Means gathering together of the
setting-upon that sets upon man,i.e.,
challenges him forth to reveal the
actual, in the mode of ordering , as
standing reserve.
What is the problem with modern
technology?
Ordering the world as a pure resource that
require to see everything in the light of scientific
mind ,that is looking at the world as calculable
coherence of forces. Looking the world as a
resource dominates the consciousness of
humanity.
The objects of the world can be
appreciated aesthetically,
poetically, religiously and all
these modes of revealing are
also truth.
Seeing the world as calculable
coherence of forces makes us
mere calculators destined to
keep exploiting reality.
It is the ability to reveal nature
that gives human their dignity.
To be richer in spirit ,
we have to experience a
greater variety of TRUTH.
THANK
YOU
