TECHNOLOGY

AS W AY OF
REVEALING
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Martin Heidegger
artin Heidegg
He was born on September 26, 1889, and died on May 26,
1976. He is a German Philosoper part of continental tradition
philosophy.
He joined Nazi Party on 1933 and remained a member of it
until it was dismantle toward the end of World War II.
He was dismissed in Freiburg
University. Resume teaching in 1951.
His works focuses on ontology.
His words often describe as complicasted for using the
complex German words: Seinsvergessenheit(Forgetfulness of
Being), Bodenstandigkeit(Rootedness-in-soil) and
Wesenverfassung(Essential Constitution).
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The essence of technology can be captured in its definition. In treatise, The Questions

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Concerning Technology, Martin Heidegger(1977) explains the two widely embrace generation
definition of technology; (1) instrumental and (2)anthropological.

Instrumental Definition: Technology is a means to an end.

Technology in not an end itself, it means to an
end. Technology viewed as a tool.
Technology is used varies from individual to individual, groups to groups and
communitied to communities.
Technology is an omnipresent.
Technology is an instrument aimed at getting things done.
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Anthropigical definiton: Technology is a human activity

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It achieve an end to produce and use a means to an end is, by itself a human activity.

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Both instrumental and antropological definition are correct but neither touches the true essence
of technology.

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Technology as a Way of
Revealing
True can only be pursued through the correct.
He envisioned the technology as way of revealing- a mode of bringing forth.
Bringing Forth- Can be understood through the Ancient Greek philosophical concept,
poiesis, which refer to the act of bringing something out of concealment, the truth of that
something revealed.
Truth- is understood through the Ancient Greek philosophical concept of aletheia, which
is translated as unclosdeness, unconcealedness, disclosure, or truth.

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Technology as Poiesis: Does Modern
Technology as Poiesis: Does Modern
Technology
Bring Forth or Challenge Forth?
Technology
Bring Forth or Challenge Forth?
Heidegger explained that modern technology is revealing not in the sense of bringing forth
or Poiesis.
Modern technology challenges nature by extracting something from it and
transforming, storing and distributing it. Heidegger's criticism of modern technology
might appear counterintuitive to the purpose of human existence.
By digging deeper into heidegger's question, it becomes clear that the essence of
modern technology is not to bring forth in the sense of poiesis.
He consider modern technology's ways of revealing as ways of challenging forth.
Challenging forth reduces object a standing-reserve or something to be disposed of by
those who and frame them- humans.

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Enframing as Modern Technology's Way of
Enframing as Modern Technology's Way of
Revealing
Revealing
Heidegger distinguished the way of revealing of modern technology by considering it a process
of enframing.
Enframing - according to heidegger, is akin to two ways of looking at the world: calculative
thinking and meditative thinking.
Calculative thinking- humans desire to put an order to nature to better understand and control
it. Meditative thinking- humans allow nature to reveal itself to them without the use of force or
violence.
Enframing, then, is a way of ordering (or framing) nature to better manipulate it.
The role of humans take as instrument of technology through in framing is called destining.
In destining, humans are challenge forth by enframing to reveal what is real. However this
destining a few man to reveal nature carries with danger of misconstruction or
misinterpretation.
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The dangers of technology by in how humans let themselves consumed by it.

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Humans are looped into the cycle of bringing forth or challenging forth, it is the responsibility
to recognize how they become instruments of technology.
The Brazilian novelist, Paulo Coelho, once remarked that it is boastful for human to think
that nature needs to be saved. People must not allow themselves to be consumed by
technology.
The real threat of technology comes from its essence, not its activity or products. The
correct response to the danger of technology is not simply dismissing technology
altogether.
Heidegger explained that people are delivered over technology in the worst possible way
they regard it as something neutral.
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Friedrich Hölderlin, a German poet quoted by Heidegger, said: " what word that danger
is, cruise the saving power."
Heidegger proposed art a saving power and the way out of enframing: "And art was
simply called techne. It was a single manifold revealing."
By focusing on art people are able to see more clearly how art is embedded in nature. Art
encourages humans to think less from a calculative standpoint where nature is viewed as
an ordered system. Instead, it inspires meditative thinking where nature is seen as art, and
all of art, nature is most poetic.

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Questioning as the Piety of
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Heidegger concluded his Treatise on technology by saying : " the closer we come to the
danger, of the brightly do the ways into the serving power begin to shine and the more
questioning we become. For the questioning as the piety of thought."
He underscored the importance of questioning in the mist of technology.
For him, there is unparallel wisdom gained only when you man are able to pause, think,
and question what is around them
Heidegger proceed that that it is through questioning that human bear witness to crises that
complete preoccupation with technology brings, preventing them from experiencing the
essence of technology.

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