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    Human Flourishing in

    Science & Technology


    (HEIDEGGER)
    Learning Outcomes
    At the end of this chapter, the students should be
    able to:
    1. Discuss what technology reveals;
    2. Examine modern technology and its role in
    human flourishing; and
    3. Explain the role of art in a technological world.
    The Question
    Concerning
    Technology

    MARTIN HEIDEGGER
    Flow of discussion
    1. Technology as a Mode of Revealing
    2. Technology as Poeisis: Applicable to Modern
    Technology?
    3. Questioning as the Piety of Thought
    4. Enframing: Way of Revealing in Modern Technology
    5. Human Person Swallowed by Technology
    Technology
    as a Mode of Revealing
    Common Understanding of technology

    ❑ Means to an end
    ❑ Product of human activity
    ❑ Practical application of science

    Do you agree with this definition of technology?


    Technology is instrumental and
    anthropological:

    Correct but not We pursue the true


    true. through the
    correct.
    Technology is a way of bringing
    forth, making something.
    What is brought forth is the truth.

    Ancient Greek concepts:


    • Poiesis – bringing forth
    • Aletheia – truth, disclosure, unconcealedness
    • Techne – skill, art, or craft

    Technology is a poiesis that discloses


    or reveals the truth.
    Is this idea of technology
    applicable to modern
    technology?
    Modern Technology
     Challenges forth
     Very aggressive in its activity
     Sets or brings about a setting upon
     Expedites unconcealment of nature
     Stores that which is extracted from nature
    Modern technology views Earth as a
    huge gas station, a representative of the
    extraction,
    drilling and rape
    of Mother nature.
    Modern Technology
    Age of switches
    Standing reserve
    Stockpiling for its own sake
    Questioning is a piety of thought.

    A process of knowing
    the truth of who we are
    as beings in this world.

     Martin Heidegger in
    Question Concerning
    Technology
    Enframing
     Way of revealing in modern technology
     Views nature as calculable and orderable
    system of information (calculative thinking)
     Earth as gas station
     Conceals poeisis
     Modern physics is the herald of enframing

    Meditative thinking – let nature reveal itself without forcing it.


    The human person swallowed by
    technology
    Art as a way out of enframing
     Technology is poetic in the primordial
    experience
     Nature is art (techne) par excellence
     Nature is the most poetic

    • There is difference between technology and modern technology.


     It
    is in questioning that we
    build a way to understand.

     Technology is usually thought of as


    that which solves problems but
    Heidegger asserts that it is something
    we must question.

     Calculative and meditative


    thinking works together.
    Aristotle’s Conception of the
    Four Causes was mechanical.
    1. Causa materialis
    2. Causa formalis
    3. Causa finalis
    4. Causa efficiens
    Aition is an ancient Greek word which
    means ‘cause’ or ‘reason’, that to which
    something else is indebted’, not cause and
    effect

     Aition is responsible for bringing forth


    Though we have Technology Though
    consigned as something enframing
    technology as a that defines happens, it
    tool, it belongs to how we do cannot snuff
    science is out the
    the realm of truth
    aition. poetic
    as a way of character of
    revealing. technology.
    The wasteland grows. Woe to him who harbors
    the wasteland. Our earth is not an earth of
    calculation. If this remains such, only a God
    can save us.
    Friedrich Nietzsche

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