Lecture 5: Technology As A Way Of Revealing

Question 1

What is the book of Aristotle that begins with the question “What is the good for human beings?

Answer 1

Nicomachean Ethics

Question 2

According to Aristotle, there is an end of all of the actions that we perform which we desire for it and that is what is known as:

Answer 2

• Eudaimonia
• Flourishing/Hapiness

Question 3

It is a property of one’s life when considered as a whole

Answer 3

Euidaimonia

Question 4

Euidaimonia meaning in Greek

Answer 4

“having good demons”

Question 5

It is the highest good of human endeavors and towards which all actions aim and is a success as a human being

Answer 5

Flourishing

Question 6

What occurs when a person is concurrently doing what he is expected to do and doing what he wants to do?

Answer 6

Human flourishing

Question 7

What is a trait of character that enables a person to flourish?

Answer 7

Virtue

Question 8

What represents moderation?

Answer 8

Doctrine of the mean

Question 9

An excess of bravery leads people to do really foolish things

Answer 9

rash

Question 10

People who have a deficiency of bravery

Answer 10

Cowards

Question 11

Technology is a means to an end

Answer 11

Instrumental definition

Question 12

Technology is a human activity

Answer 12

Anthropological definition

Question 13

Who strongly opposed the view that technology is a means to an end or a human activity

Answer 13

Martin Heidegger

Question 14

What is technology according to Heidegger?

Answer 14

Technology must be understood as a way of revealing

Question 15

What is the Greek word of Revealing?

Answer 15

Aletheuein - to discover or to uncover what was covered for

Question 16

Related to the Greek word of revealing, Aletheia which means truth but Heidegger insisted that a more adequate translation would be _________________

Answer 16

unconcealment

Question 17

What is an instrument to achieve human ends, specifically those of building up or arranging?

Answer 17

Technology

Question 18

the material cause or the aspect of the change or movement which is determined by the material that compasses the moving or changing things

Answer 18

causa materialis

Question 19

form or shape the material or matter enters

Answer 19

causa formalis

Question 20

a change or movement caused by the arrangement, shape, or appearance of the thing changing or moving

Answer 20

causa formalis

Question 21

end or final purpose

Answer 21

causa finalis

Question 22

consists of things apart from being changed or moved which interact so as to be an agency of the change or movement

Answer 22

causa eficiens

Question 23

What is the essence of technology and a type of revealing?

Answer 23

Enframing

Question 24

What sets man on a destructive and self-destructive course?

Answer 24

Danger