Understanding Heidegger's Technology

According to the instrumental definition, technology is:

• A human activity

• A means to an end

• The essence of modern life

• A form of science

Martin Heidegger is recognized as:

• A German scientist who studied machines

• A German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition of philosophy

• An engineer who created modern technology

• A writer who defined technology as a human activity

What analogy does Heidegger use to explain that the essence of technology is not technological?

• The essence of water is not a river

• The essence of a tree is not itself a tree

• The essence of sound is not music

• The essence of knowledge is not books

What is it called when humans become instruments of technology through enframing?

• Standing Reserve

• Destining

• Meditation

• Calculation

Which type of thinking involves humans desiring to put an order to nature to better understand and control it?

• Meditative Thinking

• Critical Thinking

• Calculative Thinking

• Abstract Thinking

According to Heidegger, what does enframing represent?

• A way of hiding nature from humans

• A practice of destroying technology

• A method of preserving nature untouched

• A process of ordering or framing nature to manipulate it

FILL IN THE BLANKS.

In today’s “age of technology,” reality is only present

as raw material (________ _______)

a. Standing reserve

b. Standing reverse

c. Standing receive

d. Blank Slate

• A

• B

• C

• D

Way of ordering (or framing) nature to manipulate it. It makes humans view all of nature as a standing reserve and an instrument of technology

a.) Inframing

b.) Eframing

c.) Enframing

d.) Enframming

• A

• B

• C

• D

it inspires meditative thinking, where nature is seen as art, free from force and violence.

a. Art

b. Technology

c. Values Education

d. Science

• A

• B

• C

• D

(a)   is the he translation of the Greek word aletheuein, which means “to discover” — to uncover what was.