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Technology and Humanity

Total questions: 43

Worksheet time: 43mins

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1.

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.

(a)  

2.

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

(a)  

3.

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

(a, b, c, d)

(a)  

4.

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.

(a)  

5.

Wooden Chair Example

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

(a)  

6.

Wooden Chair Example

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

(a)  

7.

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.

(a)  

8.

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

(a)  

9.

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)  

10.

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

(a)  

11.

His notes reveals that (a)   is decisive because it is the truth.

12.

Technology is a way of what?

(a)  

13.

This term is derived from its root techne

(a)  

14.

This greek word refers both to the "activities and skills of the craftsman" and the "arts of the mind and fine arts".

(a)  

15.

Reveals a way to truth and unconcealment of being.

(a)  

16.

Martin Heidegger is infamous for his affiliation with the?

(a)  

17.

Technology is a saving power, as a bringing forth.

(a)  

18.

It is also a danger, as a challenging-forth or?

(a)  

19.

A human being waiting to be unlocked, transformed, stored, distributed, switched is called according to Heidegger?

(a)  

20.

A human life that becomes regulated as a mere thing and instrument for efficiency, productivity and functionality is called?

(a)  

21.

The 1954 essay "Question Concerning Technology" was based on an earlier lecture entitled?

(a)  

22.

It is related to technology, refers to how tools, equipment and facilities were used by humans to achieve what one wants.

(a)  

23.

A general term given for the study of the function of technology and use of space.

(a)  

24.

Both the material and formal causes are what?

(a)  

25.

Provides a holistic perspective to the study of culture and society. It looks at how one aspect is related to all other aspects.

(a)  

26.

One sees other cultures as inferior on the basis of another culture.

(a)  

27.

Culture should be discussed based on its context and how it functions for the society during a specific period of time or a specific place.

(a)  

28.

Anthropologist focus more on this perspective.

(a)  

29.

"Any sociotechnical system shows the imprint of the context from which it arose..."

(a)  

30.

"Technology was the window between the natural world and human society and culture."

- Julian Steward

(a)  

31.

The changes of this has contributed to the development of stone tools among our early ancestors, which eventually resulted to a larger brain size and body frames.

(a)  

32.

Leslie white emphasized that culture is a kind of behavior which is a manifestation of energy.

(a)  

33.

They contend that social organization is dependent upon and determined by the mechanical means with which food is secured, shelter provided and defense maintained

(a)  

34.

It is a consequence of technological evolution

(a)  

35.

This concept emphasize the sociality of human technological activity.

(a)  

36.

It does not only center on material culture, but rather a total social phenomenon that integrates the material, social and symbolic aspects in a complex network of relationships.

(a)  

37.

It sees technology as a part of culture and as a product of culture. 

(a)  

38.

They study the cultures knowledge, art and customs and examines artifacts/objects that people in the past made or used.

(a)  

39.

The dig at sites where people have left traces and they usually use a variety of methods to date and analyze objects that is found.

(a)  

40.

Objects that people in the past made or used.

(a)  

41.

Knowledge, art, customs...

(a)  

42.

A Greek word commonly translated as happiness or welfare. It also means well being; virtue and human flourishing. 

(a)  

43.

It is defined as an effort to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals, each with the right to pursue his or her own such effort.

(a)