Human Person

Science and Technology

To appreciate the fruits of science and technology, what must be examined?

These are the tools that make human lives easier because they serve as means to an end.

Science and technology provides people with goods, inconvenience, or knowledge.

Medical Research

“The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.”

He is a German philosopher of the 20th century who opposes positivism.

It is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive—meaning derived by reason.

Martin Heidegger’s philosophical work was often obscured by the NAZI party.

According to critics, Martin Heidegger’s philosophy would always be rooted in his political consciousness.

This is the focus of Heidegger’s work; the study of “being” or “dasein” in German.

These popular works of Heidegger were described as complicated.

Technology is a means to an end.

Technology is a human activity.

Technology is viewed as a tool and varies in usage.

Technology is an instrument aimed at getting things done.

Microscope, RT-PCR, Thermal cycler

Human activity to achieve an end

Production of technological equipment, tools, and machine and the purpose and function they serve.

Invention, utilization, manipulation of RT-PCR

Heidegger questions technology and see beyond people’s common understanding of it.

According to Heidegger, the connotation that technology is a means to an end and is a human activity is correct but necessarily true as there is a need to look for meaning and significance.

Heidegger stressed that the “true” can be pursued through the “correct”.

Coelho said, “What is correct leads to what is true.”

He envisioned technology as a way of revealing—or a mode of bringing forth.

Bringing forth can be understood through these ancient Greek philosophical concepts:

The act of bringing something out of concealment; thus, the truth of that something is revealed

Unclosedness, disclosure, truth

Technology is a form of poiesis—a way of revealing that unconceals aletheia or the truth.

Aletheia

Poiesis

Techne

Primitive facts and modern technology are revealing.

Heidegger explained that modern technology is revealing not in the sense of bringing forth or poiesis. He made a clear distinction between technology and modern technology.

For Heidegger, modern technology challenges nature by extracting something from it and transforming, storing, and distributing it.

Modern technology

Modern technology is a mode of revealing but not as harmonious as poesis.

Heidegger considered modern technology as a process of enframing.

A way of looking or ordering at reality

Nature is placed in a box or frame to better understand it and controlled according to people’s desire.

I. Enframing happens because of how humans desire for security, even if it puts all of nature as standing reserve ready for exploitation.

II. Modern technology challenges humans to enframe nature.

III. Humans become part. of the standing reserve and an instrument of technology.

The role of human to take instruments of technology through enframing

I. In enframing, humans are challenged forth by destining to reveal what is real.

II. Destining of humans to reveal nature carries with it the danger of misconstruction or misinterpretation.

A system is placed in nature to be understood better and controlled

Nature is observed and left to reveal itself without forcing it

Meditative thinking is better than calculative thinking..

Humans are capable of using both calculative and meditative thinking and will benefit from being able to harmonize these ways of looking at the world.

Meditative thinking tends to be more commonly utilized, primarily because humans’ desire to control due to their fear of irregularity.

I. Dangers of technology lies in how humans let themselves be consumed by it.

II. Humans’ responsibility is to recognize how they become instruments of technology.

He is the Brazilian novelist who remarked that it is boastful for humans to think that nature needs to be saved, whereas Mother Nature would remain even if humans cease to exist. In facing the dangers of technology, the fear of disappearing from the face of the Earth should concern people more than the fear of Earth disappearing. People must not allow themselves to be consumed by technology to prevent losing the essence of who they are as human beings.

Humans are in danger of becoming merely part of the standing reserve.

Man swallowed by technology

Recognizing the dangers of technology requires critical and reflective thinking on its use.

”But where danger is, grows the saving power also.”; understanding the essence of technology

He proposed art as the saving power and the way out of enframing.

Art as the saving power according to Heidegger

associated with being religious; obedience and submission

Questioning as the piety of thought