Lesson 9 (final exam Flashcards
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___________ has always been defined as a means to an end and being a human activity.
Technology
Everyday routines are marked with ____________ that reflect what a society is good or known for
technological advances
Technology has well advanced since the __________
middle of the 20th.
These philosophies contributed on how technology is understood and utilized by the society (5)
- Aristotelianism
- Technological Pemissimism
- Ellul’s pessimistic arguments are
- Ellul’s pessimistic arguments are
- Existentialism
This views technology as basically a means to an end
Aristotelianism
To __________, technology is the organizing of techniques in order to meet the demand that is being posed by humans
Aristotle
This may seem that technology is primarily concerned with the product
Aristotelianism
Technology will be judged as either good or bad based on the value given to the product based on its use and effect to the society.
Aristotelianism
This views is extremely supported by French philosopher Jacques Ellul
Technological Pemissimism
Technological Pemissimism this views is extremely supported by French philosopher ________
Jacques Ellul
____________ holds that technology is progressive and beneficial in many ways, it is also doubtful in many ways.
Technological Pessimism
It is said that technology is a means to and end but this view, technology has become a way of life
Technological Pessimism
Technique has become a framework which human cannot escape.
Technological Pessimism
It has introduced ways on how to make things easy.
Technological Pessimism
Although __________ has strongly spoken of his arguments, they are still found to be weak and not true at all times
Ellul
Like when he said that technological progress can create more problems than it solves, he seems to have underestimated the objective decisions a technician, and other technological agencies makes regarding the technology where they weigh the good and bad effects it can have in the society
Ellul’s pessimistic arguments are
Ellul’s pessimistic arguments are (4)
(1) Technological progress has a price
(2) Technological progress creates more problems
(3) Technological progress creates damaging effects, and
(4) Technological progress creates unpredictable devastating effects.
This view is strongly supported by technologist an engineer and also by ordinary people who believe that technology can alleviate all the difficulties and provide solutions for problems that may come.
Technological Optimism
It holds that even though technological problems may arise; technology will still be the solutions to it
Technological Optimism
The extreme version of this philosophy is _________ which holds technology as the supreme authority on everything.
technocratism
The main concern of this view is the existence or the mode of being of someone or something which is governed by the norm of authenticity.
Existentialism
This view basically investigates the meaning of existence or being and is always faced with the selection must make with which the existence will commit himself to.
Existentialism
___________, a philosopher who was briefly introduced in Unit 1is one of the most known supporters of this philosophy.
Martin Heidegger
He did not stop defining what technology is but has dealt with its essence.
Martin Heidegger