Technology and Humanity

Martin Heidegger reexamines the meaning, origin, and the essence of technology. Through his interrogation of technology as having for its etymon of the ancient Greek term? This term is revealed how technology is inseparable from the human condition.

"No history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one that leads from the slingshot to the megaton bomb."

There are four cases of principle of causality according to Plato.

(a, b, c, d)

Wooden Chair Example

The cause of the wooden chair is the physical elements that find its unity under our comprehension of "wood." It is wood that serves as the cause of this wooden chair.

Wooden Chair Example

The cause of the wooden chair is based on the shape which the material cause has taken, which is "chair-ness"

Wooden Chair Example

The cause of the wooden chair is the one that brought it into existence--the carpenter.

Wooden Chair Example

The cause of the wooden chair as a furniture or as a throne, which means that the unity of both formal and material sets forth the completion of the thing.

This term from nothing to something, from conceal meant to unconcealment.

An occasioning from nothing to something, an emergence, it is a form of bringing-forth. He gives an example of "The bursting of a blossom into bloom, in itself."

A not sudden emergence in itself, but it is an emergence that requires the play of the four causes.