Lesson 9 (final exam Flashcards

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1
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___________ has always been defined as a means to an end and being a human activity.

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Technology

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Everyday routines are marked with ____________ that reflect what a society is good or known for

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technological advances

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Technology has well advanced since the __________

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middle of the 20th.

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These philosophies contributed on how technology is understood and utilized by the society (5)

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  1. Aristotelianism
  2. Technological Pemissimism
  3. Ellul’s pessimistic arguments are
  4. Ellul’s pessimistic arguments are
  5. Existentialism
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This views technology as basically a means to an end

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Aristotelianism

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To __________, technology is the organizing of techniques in order to meet the demand that is being posed by humans

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Aristotle

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This may seem that technology is primarily concerned with the product

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Aristotelianism

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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.

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Aristotelianism

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This views is extremely supported by French philosopher Jacques Ellul

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Technological Pemissimism

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Technological Pemissimism this views is extremely supported by French philosopher ________

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Jacques Ellul

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____________ holds that technology is progressive and beneficial in many ways, it is also doubtful in many ways.

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Technological Pessimism

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It is said that technology is a means to and end but this view, technology has become a way of life

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Technological Pessimism

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Technique has become a framework which human cannot escape.

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Technological Pessimism

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14
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It has introduced ways on how to make things easy.

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Technological Pessimism

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 Although __________ has strongly spoken of his arguments, they are still found to be weak and not true at all times

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Ellul

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16
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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

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Ellul’s pessimistic arguments are

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Ellul’s pessimistic arguments are (4)

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(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.

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18
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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.

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Technological Optimism

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It holds that even though technological problems may arise; technology will still be the solutions to it

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Technological Optimism

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The extreme version of this philosophy is _________ which holds technology as the supreme authority on everything.

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technocratism

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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.

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Existentialism

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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.

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Existentialism

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___________, a philosopher who was briefly introduced in Unit 1is one of the most known supporters of this philosophy.

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Martin Heidegger

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He did not stop defining what technology is but has dealt with its essence.

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Martin Heidegger

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To __________, the real essence of technology lies in enframing, the gathering of the setting upon which challenges man to bring the unconcealed to unconcealment and this is a continuous revealing.
Heidegger
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a well-known German philosopher, examined the two usual definitions of technology; means to an end and a human activity, because he believed that this kind of confusing and there are question To it that we easily overlook.
Martin Heidegger
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These two definitions cannot be separated from each other. He called it the _____________ and ______________or simply means by which the human ends are realized.
instrumental anthropological definition of technology
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According to ____________, the instrumental definition of technology encourages us to view technology from different periods of time as not having fundamental differences
Heidegger
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He explained that while technology is geared towards meeting a human needs, still there is a difference between older _______________ with modern technology
handicraft technologies
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Heidegger also argued that " technology is by ____________" and should not be seen as merely neutral.
no means technological
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Heidegger arrived at a discussion of causality which to him in reality initially involves __________ that leads for something to exist or to be "caused"
four ways
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Heidegger further studied Aristotle's ___________and illustrated it using a silver chalice which he said owes its make up from the four causes
Four causes
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What are the 4 causes?
1. The material cause 2. The formal Cause 3. the final cause 4. the efficient cause
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The ________ by which the silver chalice was made of: silver
The material cause
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The form of the shape that gave the silver chalice its image
the formal cause
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The purpose or the primary use by which the silver chalice was made for: to be used during the Holy Communion as a vessel for the wine that represent the blood of Christ
the final cause
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The agent that has caused for the silver chalice to come about: the silversmith
the Efficient Cause
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The four causes are all deemed responsible for the bringing forth of the _________
silver chalice
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This bringing forth of something is termed as___________ and this is characterized by an external force
poiesis
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Heidegger believed that the genuine substance or the real essence of technology is found in _________
enframing.
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This is the continuous bringing forth into unconcealment that which is concealed
enframing
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This is a non-stop revealing.
enframing
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Heidegger explained that technology as a __________ does not stop and continues to be seen in modern technology but not in the bringing-forth sense.
mode of revealing
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_______ is basically putting in order whatever is presented to the man who sets upon the unconcealed but it is a two- way relationship:
. Enframing
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_________ opens up a relationship between man and the word but an opening up of something means a closing down of something which means as something is revealed, another is_________.
Revealing concealed
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