STS FINAL EXAM 1st Semester

Which of the following perspectives about the development of technology is no longer applicable to a modern society?

• technological and scientific advancements are interconnected

• technology is driven alone by the basic needs for survival

• technological developments are driven by market demand

• technological development is influenced by governance

If the idea of a good life is incorporated in an STS technological assessment, which of the following will be a favorable assessment?

• the technology is habit forming         

• the technology is non-addictive

• the technology is enslaving

• the technology is excessive

What did Martin Heidegger mention about technology in his essay?

• technology flourishes human 

• technology is happiness

• technology is sometimes good or bad

• technology is a way of revealing

What does Heidegger say is the purpose of his essay, i.e. what is meant to prepare?

• the thinking and questioning about technology is done on order to establish a working philosophy of technologyso it can be understood.

• the thinking and question about technology is done in order to make technology more useful to us.

• the thinking and question about technology is done in order discover our ethical relationship to technology

• the thinking and question about technology is done in order show why technology is not as vital to life as we think of it

Why did Heidegger describe technology as “challenging forth”?

• it demanded so much from our earth’s resources

• it is forcing into being

• we rely too much on technology

• it emerges out of concealment into unconcealment  

There is no demonry of technology but rather there is the mystery of its essence. The essence of technology, as definition of revealing, is the danger. Which of the following sentence best describes why technology is dangerous?  

• Technological stuff is the essence of technology and therefore all technology should be avoided so that it does not take over our human way of understanding.

• I should get rid of my cellphone and stop using computers because they are destroying my human essence

• The essence of technology is dangerous because it is impossible to understand and that is why we must keep questioning about it..

• Because of the essence of technology we are only able to see the world and things in one way, as resources

            

According to Aristotle, we should begin ethical inquiry by specifying

• which things are intrinsically valuable

• what are our fundamental duties are

• the aim of human life

• what constrains on behavior it would be reasonable to agree on

Eudaimonia implies which of the following?

• being fully alive as opposed to merely existing

• simply existing, survival at all costs

• a life of pleasure

• that eact person defines his or her happiness.

Which of the following statement would be suitable to an “eudaemonic” approach to flourishing?

• flourishing is all about money and power

• flourishing is all about feeling and pleasure

• flourishing is impossible

• flourishing means that one can still be leading a meaningful life even in the face of suffering

Which of the following is the main goal and reward of the human flourishing?

• appreciation

• self-direction

• happiness

• contentment