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Blue Futuristic Illustrative Artificial Intelligence Project Presentation - 20240312 - 185918 - 0000

The document discusses the essence of technology as articulated by Martin Heidegger, emphasizing two definitions: instrumental (technology as a means to an end) and anthropological (technology as a human activity). Heidegger further explores technology as a mode of revealing truth, contrasting modern technology's process of enframing with the more authentic revealing found in ancient practices. The text warns of the dangers of technology consuming humanity and stresses the importance of questioning and reflection to address these challenges.

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The document discusses the essence of technology as articulated by Martin Heidegger, emphasizing two definitions: instrumental (technology as a means to an end) and anthropological (technology as a human activity). Heidegger further explores technology as a mode of revealing truth, contrasting modern technology's process of enframing with the more authentic revealing found in ancient practices. The text warns of the dangers of technology consuming humanity and stresses the importance of questioning and reflection to address these challenges.

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THE ESSENCE

TECHNOL
OF

OGY
The Essence of Technology:
It cannot be denied that science and technology are
responsible for the ways society is continuously being
modernized. Science and technology continuously seep
into the way people go about their daily lives. However,
the omnipresence of science and technology must not
eclipse the basic tenets of ethics and morality.
“THE
QUESTIONING
CONCERNING
TECHNOLOGY”
is a work by Martin Heidegger (1977),
in which the author discusses the
essence of technology and explains the
two widely embraced definitions of
technology: (1) Instumental and (2)
anthropological.
TWO
DEFINITIO 1. INSTRUMENTAL
N OF DEFINITION
TECHNOLO
GY "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.
HOW TECHNOLOGY IS USED VARIES FROM
INDIVIDUAL TO INDIVIDUAL, GROUPS TO
GROUPS, AND COMMUNITIES TO COMMUNITIES
ACCORDING TO THEIR INDIVIDUAL AND
COLLECTIVE FUNCTIONS, GOALS, AND
2.
ANTHROPOLO
GICAL
TEXTANTHROPOLOGICAL DEFINITION: TECHNOLOGY IS
DEFINITION
A HUMAN ACTIVITY. ALTERNATIVELY, 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.
BOTH DEFINITIONS, I.E.,
INSTRUMENTAL AND
ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARE
CORRECT. HOWEVER,
NEITHER TOUCHES ON THE
TRUE ESSENCE OF
TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF
REVEALING
HEIDEGGER STRESSED THAT THE
TRUTH 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,
THUS, 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
TECHNOLOGY AS POIESIS:
DOES MODERN
TECHNOLOGY
HEIDEGGER, IN BRING
THE QUESTION
FORTH OR
CONCERNING
CHALLENGE
TECHNOLOGY,
FORTH? TEXT
POSITED THAT BOTH PRIMITIVE
CRAFTS AND MODERN TECHNOLOGY
ARE REVEALING.
ON THE SURFACE, HEIDEGGER'S
CRITICISM OF MODERN
TECHNOLOGY MIGHT APPEAR
COUNTERINTUITIVE TO THE
PURPOSE OF NATURE TO HUMAN
ENFRAMING AS MODERN TECHNOLOGY'S WAY OF
REVEALING
IF THE ESSENCE OF TECHNOLOGY CAN BE
UNDERSTOOD AS A WAY OF BRINGING FORTH THE
TRUTH IN THE SENSE OF POIESIS, HEIDEGGER
DISTINGUISHED THE WAY OF REVEALING OF
MODERN TECHNOLOGY BY CONSIDERING IT AS A
PROCESS OF ENFRAMING. HUMANKIND'S DESIRE
TO CONTROL EVERYTHING, INCLUDING NATURE, IS
CAPTURED IN THIS PROCESS. BY PUTTING THINGS,
IN THIS CASE NATURE, IN A FRAME, IT BECOMES
THE DANGERS OF
TECHNOLOGYT
THE DANGERS OF TECHNOLOGY LIE IN HOW HUMANS LET
THEMSELVES BE CONSUMED BY IT. ALTHOUGH HUMANS ARE
LOOPED INTO THE CYCLE OF BRINGING FORTH OR
CHALLENGING FORTH, IT IS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO
RECOGNIZE HOW THEY BECOME INSTRUMENTS OF
TECHNOLOGY.
THE BRAZILIAN NOVELIST, PAULO COELHO, ONCE REMARKED
THAT IT IS BOASTFUL FOR HUMANS TO THINK THAT NATURE
NEEDS TO BE S AVED, WHEREAS MOTHER NATURE WOULD
REMAIN EVEN IF HUMANSCEASE TO EXIST, HENCE, IN FACING
THE DANGERS OF TECHNOLOGY, THE FEAR OF DIS APPEARING
FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH SHOULD CONCEM PEOPLE MORE
ART AS THE
NECESSARY REFLECTION UPON AND
SAVING
CONFRONTATION WITH TECHNOLOGY ARE
POWER
REQUIRED IN ORDER TO PROACTIVELY
ADDRESS THE DANGERS OF
TECHNOLOGY. FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN, A
GERMAN POET QUOTED BY HEIDEGGER,
SAID: "BUT WHERE DANGER IS, GROWS
THE SAVING POWER ALSO" (1977, P.14).
FOLLOWING THIS, THE SAVING POWER
CAN BE TRACED EXACTLY WHERE THE
QUESTIONING AS THE PIETY OF
THOUGHT
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
(1977, P.19).
HEIDEGGER UNDERSCORED THE IMPORTANCE
OF QUESTIONING IN THE MIDST OF
TECHNOLOGY. FOR HIM, THERE IS
THAN
K

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