Science, Technology, and Society and The Human Condition

Science, Technology, and
Society and the Human

Condition
SECTION 1 : TECHNOLOGY
AS A WAY OF REVEALING
SECTION 1 : TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY
OF REVEALING
• This section tackles the essence of technology based on
Martin Heidegger’s work, The Question Concerning
Technology.
• The section shall engage in the process of questioning
concerning technology.
• It discusses the key concepts related to Heidegger’s work
and how these concepts relate to an understanding of the
essence of technology.
Intended Learning Outcomes
1. differentiate the essences of technology and

modern technology;
2. discuss and illustrate the dangers of modern
technology; and
3. explain why art is the saving power of modern
technology.
At A Glance: Who is Martin Heidegger?
• Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is
widely acknowledged as one of the
most important philosophers of the
20th century.
• He was a German philospher who
was part of the Continental tradition
of philosophy.
• In 1933, he joined the Nazi
Party (NSDAP) and remained
to be a member until it was
dismantled toward the end of
World War II.
• This resulted in his dismissal
from the University of
Freiburg in 1949.
• He was only able to resume
teaching in 1951.
• Heidegger’s work on philosophy focused on
ontology described as complicated, partly due to his
use of complex compound of ‘being’ or dasein in
German.
• His philosophical works German words, such as
Seinsvergessenheit (Forgetfulness of Being)
Bodenständigkeit (Rootedness-in-Soil), and
Wesensverfassung (Esse Constitution).
The Essence of Technology
The essence of technology can be captured in its
definition. In his treatise, The Question Concerning
Technology, Martin Heidegger (1977) explains the
two widely embraced definitions of technology:
(1) Instrumental
(2) Anthropological.
1. Instrumental definition: Technology is a
means to an end.
• Technology is not an end in itself, it is a means to an end.
• In this context, technology is viewed as a tool available to
individuals, groups, and communities that desire to make an
impact on society.
• While technology is omnipresent, knowing its functions
requires paying attention to how humans use it as a means to an
end.
• In this sense, technology is an instrument aimed at getting things
done.
2. Anthropological definition: Technology is a
human activity.
• Technology can also be defined as a human activity
because to achieve an end and to produce and use a means
to an end is, by itself, a human activity.
• The production or invention of technological equipment,
tools and machines, the products and inventions, and the
purpose and functions they serve are what define
technology.
Technology as a way of Revealing
• Heidegger stressed that the true can only be pursued through
the correct. Simply, what is correct leads to what is true.
• In this sense, Heidegger envisioned technology as a way of
revealing-a mode of bringing forth.’
• Bringing forth can be understood through the Ancient Greek
philosophical concept, poiesis, which refers to the act of
bringing something out of concealment.
• By bringing something out of concealment, the truth of that
something is revealed.
• The truth is understood
through another Ancient
Greek concept of aletheia,
which is translated as
unclosedness,
unconcealedness,
disclosure, or truth.
For Heidegger, technology is a form of poeisis – a way of
revealing that unconceals aletheia or the truth.
• This is seen in the way the term techne, the Greek root
word of technology, is understood in different contexts.
• In philosophy, techne resembles the term episteme
that refers to the human ability to make and perform.
• Techne also encompasses knowledge and
understanding.
• In art, it refers to tangible and intangible aspects of
life.
• The Greeks understood techne in the way that it
encompasses not only craft, but other acts of the mind,
and poetry.
Technology as Poiesis: Does Modern Technology
Bring Forth or Challenge Forth?
Heidegger, the question concerning technology
posited that both primitive crafts and modern
technology are revealing.
• Heidegger considers modern technology waste of
revealing as a way of challenging forth, because it
makes people think to do things faster more
effectively.
• Challenging forth reduces
object a standing reserve or
something be disposed of by
those who enframe them humans
• The challenging forth of
modern technology is seen
everywhere, in the rise and
depletion of petroleum of as a
strategic.
Enframing as Modern Technology’s Way of Revealing
• What is Poiesis
Poiesis - is if the essence of technology can be
understood as a way of bringing of forth the truth in
the sense.
• What is Enframing?
Enframing – it is the process of the revealing of
modern technology by considering.
Humankind’s desire to control everything, including
nature, is captured in this process.
According to Heidegger Enframing is akin to two

ways of looking at the world.
1. Calculative thinking - humans desire to put an order to
nature to better understand and control it.
2. Meditative Thinking – humans allow mature to reveal
itself to them without the use of force or violence.
• Enframing is a way of
ordering nature to better
manipulate it.
• Enframing happens
because of how humans
desire for security, even
if it puts all of nature as
a standing reserve ready
for exploitation.
In what way of revealing modern Technology’s?
• Modern technology challenges humans to enframe
nature. Thus, humans become part of the standing reserve
and an instrument of technology , to be exploited in the
ordering of nature.
What kind of human to be a model or role?

• The role humans take as instruments of technology
through Enframing is called DESTINING.
And DESTINING are human challenged forth by
Enframing to reveal what is real.
The Dangers Of technology
• lie in how human let themselves be consumed
by it.
• Paulo Coelho- Brazilian
novelist once remarked that it
is boastful for humans to think
that nature need to be saved.
Recognizing its danger of technology requires critical
and reflective thinking on its use .
Social Media
- connected people in the most
efficient and convenient way .
- Imaginable and inadvertently
gave rise to issues such as invasion
privacy online distribution, and
proliferation of fake news.
Heidengger(1977) –
people delivered over
technology in the worst
possible way when they
regard it as something
neutral.
• Ultimately the essence
of technology is by no
means anything
technological.
Art As The Saving Power
Friedrich Holderlin
A German poet quoted by Heidegger, said:
“but where danger is, grows the saving power
also” (1977, p.14).
Heidegger proposed art as the saving power
and the way out of enframing: “And art was
simply called techne, it was a single,
manifold revealing” (1977, p.18).
• Art encourages humans to think less from
a calculative standpoint where nature is
viewed as an ordered system.
Questioning as the Piety of Thought
• Heidegger concluded his
treatise on technology by
saying “The closer we come to
the danger, the more brightly
do the ways into the saving
power begin to shine and the
more questioning we become.
For questioning is the piety of
thought”
• There is unparalleled wisdom
gained only when humans are
able to pause, think, and
question what is around them.
• Humans are consumed by
technology when they are
caught up in enframing and fail
to pay attention to the
intricacies of technology, the
brilliance of the purpose of
humankind, and the genius of
humans to bring forth the truth.
• Questioning is the piety of
thought.
• Heidegger posited that it is
through questioning that
humans bear witness to the
crises that a complete
preoccupation with
technology brings,
preventing them from
experiencing the essence of
technology.
End of Discussion
Thank You for
Listening!! 
Group 1 Reporters
• CASTAÑOS
• ALORA
• AURELIO
• VILLA
• SAAVEDRA
• ORCIGA
• RODRIGUEZ

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