Course Title: GE 7 SCI – SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Unit Title: STS AND THE HUMAN CONDITION (PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)

Introduction:

The view of technology as a way of revealing would suggest that technology is inextricably bound
up with the way in which we live, our practices, and our institutions. This implied to the essence
of technology which is not something we make but it is a mode of being, or of revealing. Which
also means a reality is revealed in a specific way, and this is where technology comes in,
since technology is the way of revealing that characterizes our time. Technology embodies a
specific way of revealing the world, a revealing in which humans take power over reality

Module Outcomes:
After completing this module, the students must have:
1.. Analyzed the human condition to deeply reflect and express philosophical ramification that
are meaningful to the student as a part of a society.

Lesson Title 12: Technology as a Way of Revealing

Lesson Outcomes:
At the end of the lesson, the students must have:
1.. Explain the concept of human condition before science and technology.
2.. Identify the change that happened in human condition after science and technology.
3.. Enumerate ways on how technology aided in revealing the truth about human being..

Teaching Delivery
Reading and Video Link:
A. Technology as a Way of Revealing
B. The History of Technology and Human Condition
C. The Democratic Rationalization of Technology, Power, and Freedom
D. Video: Technology by Martin Heidegger
E. The Essence of Technology
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Unit 11. : Worksheet No. 12
: STS and the Human Condition (Philosophy of Science and Technology)

Lesson 1: Technology as a Way of Revealing

Answer the questions concisely.

Questions Answers

1. Explain how Science and

Technology aided the human
condition before and in our
present generation

2. In the advent of modern

science and technology, how
this able to improve the
human condition? Explain
your answer

3. What do you think the

essence of Technology? In
compare with science and
mathematics. Discuss your
answer.

4. Do you agree with Martin

Heidegger in his idea that
technology should only be
seen as one of the
approaches in perceiving
truth? What are other
possible approaches we
should consider?
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Unit 11. : Worksheet No. 13
: STS and the Human Condition (Philosophy of Science and Technology)

Lesson 1: Environmental Scanning Activity Worksheet

List possible issues, problems in Are there solutions to this challenges mention in the left
science you may encounter every column? Clarify your answer.
day.
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List possible issues, problems in Are there solutions to this challenges mention in the left
society you may encounter every column? Clarify your answer.
day.
1.

2.

3.

What are the present technology What it makes significant to you? Explain your answer
you admire most.
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