Chapter 4

• Martin Heidegger


  A German philosopher who wrote "The Question Concerning Technology"
• The essence of technology is not something we make; it is a mode of being, or revealing.
• Technology holds sway over beings that we do not normally think of as technological, such as gods and history.
• Technology based on its modern essence is primarily a matter of modern and industrial technology.
• Technology is not simply the practical application of natural science.
• Two Characteristics of Modern Technology as a Revealing Process


  1.) The mode of revealing of modern technology is challenging.

  2.) The challenging that brings forth the energy of nature is an "expediting"
• Standing in Reserve


  Term used to name the things that are revealed in modern technology.
• Enframing


  The "essence" of modern technology.
• Eudaimonia


  means "good fortune" or "material prosperity"
• Eudaimonia


  A situation achieved through virtue, knowledge, and excellence.
• Three Motivating Parts of the Soul/Mind

  1.) Rational

  2.) Spirited or emotional

  3.) Appetitive
• Eudaimonia


  Constituted by rational activity in the virtues of character.
• All humans seek to flourish.
• Four Aspects of Human Nature


  1.) Physical

  2.) Emotional

  3.) Social

  4.) Rational
• Physical

  Involves nourishment, exercise, rest.
• Emotional


  Involves wants, desires, urges, and reactions.
• Social


  Involves living and functioning in particular societies.
• Rational


  Involves creativity, expressiveness, knowledge seeking, and being able to obey reason.
• The Question Concerning Technology


  Modern technology and its essence as an Instrumental way of living the world.