Scribd
Upload
36 views3 pages

Ge5 Week4-5

This document contains a student's responses to an activity analyzing Martin Heidegger's views on technology. The student provides three key insights: 1. Technology is a mode of revealing - it allows us to understand the world by uncovering answers to questions. However, technology also has its own presence and way of revealing itself. 2. Technology should be questioned to gain a better understanding of the world without technology and free ourselves from its influence. 3. Heidegger advocated moving from calculative to meditative thinking because technology distorts our nature and real core by dominating our work and thought.

Uploaded by

ALEXANDRA KRISHA DE ASIS
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
36 views3 pages

Ge5 Week4-5

This document contains a student's responses to an activity analyzing Martin Heidegger's views on technology. The student provides three key insights: 1. Technology is a mode of revealing - it allows us to understand the world by uncovering answers to questions. However, technology also has its own presence and way of revealing itself. 2. Technology should be questioned to gain a better understanding of the world without technology and free ourselves from its influence. 3. Heidegger advocated moving from calculative to meditative thinking because technology distorts our nature and real core by dominating our work and thought.

Uploaded by

ALEXANDRA KRISHA DE ASIS
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

Alexandra Krisha D.

De Asis

STS GE 5 – 3064

I – BSCE/S

Let’s Check

Activity 4. Classify the following practices of the human flourishing of the technology it provides
mentioned in the essential knowledge part of this unit.

e.g., Human Person Swallowed by technology 1. Cannot do the assignment or can’t do research
without gadgets and the internet.

Technology as a Mode of Revealing 1. Swab testing to determine if positive to COVID.

Technology as a Mode of Revealing 2. Tissue culture is applied to produce new seedlings.

Human Person Swallowed by technology 3. Creating GMO (genetically modified organisms)


products.

Technology as Poiesis 4. Power plants using renewable resources.

Enframing: way of Revealing in Modern Technology 5. Consistently studying and finding the cure
of COVID.

Technology as Poiesis 6. Mining coal to provide electricity.

Meditative Thinking 7. Doing exercise regularly to have a healthy body.

Art as a way out of Enframing 8. Apply aesthetics to maintain beauty.

Enframing: way of Revealing in Modern Technology 9. Undergo medical procedures like surgery
to solve health problem and extend life.

Art as a way out of Enframing 10. Determining the weather conditions through satellites.
Let’s Analyze

Activity 4. In this part, you are once again required to elaborate your answer thoroughly on the
questions below.

1. How is technology a mode of revealing?


- The technology is our method of understanding the world and reveal what we
understand, and uncovered all answers that human seeking. It is not only a thing
or something that we make which means that technologies have their own
presence like connections in the world and way of presentation of themselves
within our world.
2. Why should technology be questioned?
- In questioning the technology, it is made for human to be free in chains of
technology and have freedom without the presence of technology. Through this
way, we are able to gain a better understanding in the essence and meaning of
our world with the absence of technology.

Explain why Heidegger manifest the calculative thinking towards meditative thinking?

- Heidegger manifest calculative thinking towards meditative thinking because


the world that we have now is full of technology and our way of working or
thinking depends most of time with the presence of technology. He let us
opened our mind and make us all back on the ground, and pushed the thought
that technological devices are distorting our nature and real core.

Describe technology as a means to an end, and technology is a human activity.

- The technology as a means to an end is where technological devices are meant


to be used and helps human to achieve what they want to make or make things
done but it is not an end in itself. On the other hand, technology is a human
activity because in order to achieve the end and produce, the human activity is
needed to meet this end.
In a Nutshell

Activity 4.

Heidegger’s questioning the technology brought a big realization on flourishing technology,


especially nowadays. All of us seem dependent on the presence of technology. However, we
cannot cover or hide the truth that there are ways already that technology brought both positive
and negative effects on humanity. In this activity, you require to draw conclusions or write your
perspectives about this matter. Again, I will supply the first item, and you will continue the rest.

1. Flourishing of technology could be bad or good depends on the person using it. Utilizing
technology would be beneficial when there’s a demand for food, medicine, especially if
there’s pandemic, etc. to survive. But when it is utilized to create destruction to humanity
and the environment, that’s when it became terrible. All these, it depends on one’s person’s
action in flourishing technology.
2. The dependency of human on technological devices seems to be overlooked because of the
things that technology can offer on everyone’s life. We cannot deny that flourishing
technology is an essential to needs of our society.
3. Flourishing technology is a complicated argument however if we human especially leaders
above the society provides a guide to not disregard the idea and thought of Heidegger.
4. Technological devices mean so much in every sector of our society and to not overlooked
on important things like our nature and real core.

You might also like