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    Martin Heidegger was a 20th century German philosopher who viewed technology as a way of revealing the world. In his influential work "The Question Concerning Technology", he distinguished between "bringing-forth", a revealing of truth through craft or art, and "challenging-forth", how modern technology transforms nature into a standing reserve for human use and consumption. He warned that technology risks reducing all revelation to enframing and expediency if we forget its roots in human choices and agency over revelation.

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    Martin Heidegger was a 20th century German philosopher who viewed technology as a way of revealing the world. In his influential work "The Question Concerning Technology", he distinguished between "bringing-forth", a revealing of truth through craft or art, and "challenging-forth", how modern technology transforms nature into a standing reserve for human use and consumption. He warned that technology risks reducing all revelation to enframing and expediency if we forget its roots in human choices and agency over revelation.

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    Martin Heidegger was a 20th century German philosopher who viewed technology as a way of revealing the world. In his influential work "The Question Concerning Technology", he distinguished between "bringing-forth", a revealing of truth through craft or art, and "challenging-forth", how modern technology transforms nature into a standing reserve for human use and consumption. He warned that technology risks reducing all revelation to enframing and expediency if we forget its roots in human choices and agency over revelation.

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    MARTIN HEIDEGGER:

    THE QUESTION CONCERNING TECHNOLOGY


    BRIEF BACKGROUND

    He was born on 1881 and Born in Baden, educated at


    Freiburg in the phenomenological
    died in the year 1976
    tradition of Husserl

    Technology was an important element in


    his work: for Heidegger, technology was
    the key to understanding our current One of the most
    time. Especially his text ‘The Question influential philosophers
    Concerning Technology’ (1954, English of the 20th century
    Translation 1977), which has been very
    influential in philosophy of technology.
    MARTIN HEIDEGGER VIEW ON TECHNOLOGY 2
    BEING = TRUTH PROCESS OF ALETHEIA

    TECHNE = POIESIS
    + EPISTEME
    PROCESS OF REVEALING TO UNDERSTAND

    MARTIN HEIDEGGER VIEW ON TECHNOLOGY 3


    TECHNOLOGY

    MARTIN HEIDEGGER VIEW ON TECHNOLOGY 4


    Provides anthropological
    and instrumental
    Technology is a means to definition
    an end (i.e Developed
    with a purpose to solving
    something)

    TECHNOLOGY
    MARTIN HEIDEGGER VIEW ON TECHNOLOGY 5
    T
    H
    CAUSA MATERIALIS- material cause
    E

    4 CAUSA FORMALIS- the form or shape

    C CAUSA FINALIS- final cause and purpose


    A
    U
    S CAUSA EFFICIENS- effective cause or maker
    E
    S
    MARTIN HEIDEGGER VIEW ON TECHNOLOGY 6
    T
    H
    E

    The chalice is a result of “bringing-


    C
    forth” something from material and H
    revealing its qualities. That is a A
    simple process of revealing the L
    object’s qualities along with the I
    qualities of the person/people that
    made it. In contrast, Heidegger finds
    C
    that technology involves a more E
    aggressive “challenging-forth”
    MARTIN HEIDEGGER VIEW ON TECHNOLOGY 7
    MODERN DAM
    TECHNOLOGY
    Bringing-forth is a mode of
    revealing the essence of
    something through means
    of writing, craftsmanship
    or other artistic
    processes. On the other
    hand, challenging-
    forth into the standing
    reserve is a result of
    modern technology,
    according to
    Heidegger.
    MARTIN HEIDEGGER VIEW ON TECHNOLOGY 8
    P Occasioning originates from the Greek word
    O Aitia which means ‘cause’ notion of bringing-
    forth
    E
    I
    S Through occasioning and Bringing-forth, a new
    definition of technology emerges and that is “a
    I way of revealing the world we live in”.
    S

    MARTIN HEIDEGGER VIEW ON TECHNOLOGY 9


    When Heidegger speaks of “ truth ”
    this is what he is talking about; the
    un-concealing of the essence

    We do not have full


    control over aletheia ;
    we simply respond to it.

    Technology is a mode of
    revealing. Technology comes
    to presence in the realm
    ALETHEIA where revealing and un-
    concealment take place,
    where aletheia , truth,
    happens”

    MARTIN HEIDEGGER VIEW ON TECHNOLOGY 10


    ENFRAMING

    Enframing means that way of revealing which holds sway in


    the essence of modern technology and which is itself nothing
    technological. ( Heidegger 1977, 302) Technology
    as enframing is the mode in which everything comes into the
    open, and makes sense for us.

    MARTIN HEIDEGGER VIEW ON TECHNOLOGY 11


    Heidegger is therefore
    cautioning the reader
    against taking technology
    for granted as a natural Heidegger finds it
    part of human progress, dangerous that we
    He notes that technology and forgetting that it is have become so
    does not have to be rooted rooted in human choices focused on technology
    in challenging-forth, and and influence. with a practical and
    that it was once inclusive exploitative “essence”
    of “bringing-forth” and abandoned
    processes that reveal alternative concepts of
    beauty and truth. technology as art or
    philosophy

    TECHNOLOGY =
    CHALLENGING +
    EXPEDITING
    MARTIN HEIDEGGER VIEW ON TECHNOLOGY 12

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