Module 4: "Science and Technology and The Human Conditions"

Question 1

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

Technology brings about change causally

Answer 1

Causality

Question 2

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

The cause is what is responsible for the effect, and the effect is indebted to the cause

Answer 2

Causality

Question 3

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

According to Aristotle, there are four ways in which this relation holds

Answer 3

Casuality

Question 4

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

The unifying notion is that of starting something on its way to arrival

Answer 4

Causality

Question 5

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

Being responsible is an inducing to go forward

Answer 5

Causality

Question 6

Causality

Being responsible is an inducing to go ________

Answer 6

forward

Question 7

Causality

According to _________, there are four ways in which this relation holds

Answer 7

Aristotle

Question 8

Causality

______ brings about change causally

Answer 8

Technology

Question 9

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

underlies causality is a bringing out of concealment

Answer 9

Bringing forth

Question 10

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

This revealing is what the Greeks call truth

Answer 10

Bringing forth

Question 11

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

Technology brings forth as well, and it is a revealing

Answer 11

Bringing forth

Question 12

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

This is seen in the way the Greeks understood techne, which encompasses not only craft, but other acts of the mind, and poetry

Answer 12

Bringing forth

Question 13

Bringing forth

This is seen in the way the Greeks understood ______, which encompasses not only craft, but other acts of the mind, and poetry

Answer 13

techne

Question 14

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

Both primitive crafts and modern technology are revealing

Answer 14

Modern Technology

Question 15

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

But the revealing of modern technology is not a bringing-forth,
but a challenging-forth

Answer 15

Modern Technology

Question 16

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

It challenges nature, by extracting something from it and
transforming it, storing it up, distributing it, etc.

Answer 16

Modern Technology

Question 17

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

Modern technology takes all of nature to stand in reserve for its
exploitation

Answer 17

The standing-reserve

Question 18

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

Man is challenged to do this, and as such he becomes part of
the standing reserve

Answer 18

The standing-reserve

Question 19

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

Man becomes the instrument of technology, to be exploited in
the ordering of nature

Answer 19

The standing-reserve

Question 20

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

It is not man that orders nature through technology, but a
more basic process of revealing

Answer 20

Enframing

Question 21

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

The challenge of this revealing is called “enframing”

Answer 21

Enframing

Question 22

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

the actual is revealed as a standing-reserve

Answer 22

Enframing

Question 23

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

This is “historically” prior to the development of science

Answer 23

Enframing

Question 24

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

______ is the essence of technology

Answer 24

Enframing

Question 25

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING Men are sent upon the way of revealing the actual as a standing-reserve

Answer 25

destining

Question 26

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING So enframing, and hence technology, is a “_______”

Answer 26

destining

Question 27

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING The destining of man to reveal nature carries with it the danger of misconstrual

Answer 27

destining

Question 28

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING Man is in danger of becoming merely part of the standing- reserve

Answer 28

The danger

Question 29

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING Alternatively, he may find only himself in nature

Answer 29

The danger

Question 30

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING Most importantly, he may think that the ordering of the world through technology is the fundamental mode of revealing

Answer 30

The danger

Question 31

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING So the real threat of technology comes from its essence, not its activities or products

Answer 31

The danger

Question 32

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING The poet Hölderlin writes that the saving power grows where danger is

Answer 32

The saving power

Question 33

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING The saving would allow a bringing-forth that is not a challenging-forth (things would reveal themselves not just as standing-reserve)

Answer 33

The saving power

Question 34

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING Both technology and bringing-forth grow out of “granting,” which allows revealing

Answer 34

The saving power

Question 35

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING Poetry and other arts have the power to reveal, in the sense of “bringing-forth”

Answer 35

The art of saving power

Question 36

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING But it is also fundamentally different from technology

Answer 36

The art of saving power

Question 37

TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING It may be the best means for getting at the essence of technology itself

Answer 37

The art of saving power

Question 38

The art of saving power Poetry and other arts have the power to reveal, in the sense of “__________”

Answer 38

bringing-forth

Question 39

The saving power Both technology and bringing-forth grow out of “______,” which allows revealing

Answer 39

granting

Question 40

The saving power The poet ______writes that the saving power grows where danger is

Answer 40

Hölderlin