Chapter 4
Technology as a Way of Revealing
MS. ELSBETH KAYE P. OLIVA, LPT, [Link] • SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY
PART II
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMAN
CONDITION
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this section, the students are expected to:
1. Examine the human condition to deeply reflect and express philosophical
ramifications that are meaningful to the student as a part of society.
2. Critique human flourishing vis-a vis the progress of Science and Technology
to define the meaning of the good life.
3. Examine shared concerns that make up the good life in order to come up
with innovative and creative solutions to the contemporary issues guided
by ethical standards
4. Examine human rights in order to uphold such rights in technological
dilemnas.
BCE CE
Survival Wealth
A. Technology as a Way of Revealing
“The Question Concerning Technology”
Heidegger’s Understanding of Technology
First, the essence of technology is not something we make; it is a mode of
being, or of revealing.
Technology even holds sway over beings that we do not normally think of as
technological, such as gods and history.
Technology as primarily a matter of modern and industrial technology.
Martin Heidegger Technology is not simply the practical application of natural science.
A. Technology as a Way of Revealing
Two Characteristics of Modern Technology as a
Revealing Process
The mode of revealing of modern technology is by
challenging it.
Second: The challenge that brings forth the energy of
nature through “expediting”
Martin Heidegger
A. Technology as a Way of Revealing
Heidegger uses a technical word to name the things
that are revealed in modern technology as “standing in
reserve”.
For Heidegger enframing is the “essence” of modern
technology.
Martin Heidegger
B. Human Flourishing
Eudaimonia
not only good fortune and material prosperity
Plato and Aristotle but a situation achieved through virtue,
knowledge and excellence
B. Human Flourishing
Four Aspects of Human
all humans Nature
seek to
flourish physical
emotional
social
rational
B. Human Flourishing
Human Flourishing
all humans =
Personal Flourishing
seek to
flourish talents
abilities
virtues
One man’s self –realization is
not the same as another’s.
To flourish, a man must pursue goals that are
both rational for him individually and also as a
human being.
Conceptually
Living
dealing with
the world Consciously
Externalizing Living In accordance
values to logic
rationally
With respect
on the facts sensible
of reality