SCIENCE , TECHNOLOGY ANS SOCIETY (STS)

MAGGAY, JOHN ANTHONY B. BSRT – 1B REFLECTION #1

REFLECTION PAPER ON “THE QUESTION CONCERNING TECHNOLOGY by MARTIN

HEIDEGGER”

Our world has been taken over by technology in today's generation. One of the
primary reasons for our world's development has been technology. It was also the one
responsible for the emergence of new material advancements. However, according
to Heidegger, technology must be handled properly and appropriately used to avoid
mistake that could harm and threaten us or to slip from human control. Heidegger says
that enframing is the way of revealing that has sway over the essence of modern
technology but is not technological in and of itself. He says that modern technology
allows us to isolate nature and treat it as a standing reserve, a resource to be saved
for later use.

In addition, Heidegger emphasizes the role of technology in conveying our

mistakes by consolidating our experience of things as they are. He claims that we now
see nature and, increasingly, humans. We are technologically inclined, and we see
nature and people only as raw materials for technical actions. Heidegger works to
emphasize this issue and discover a mode of thinking that would shield us from
technology's ability to manipulate us. Additionally, he thinks that people today have
become overly dependent on technology. To avoid becoming overly receptive to
technology, we must instead recognize its risks and reject it.

The essence of modern technology starts man upon the way of that revealing
through which the real everywhere, distinctly, becomes standing reserve.
Technology and in particular, modern technology, which he recognizes as something
not the same to older. Pre-industrialized forms of technology. The difference is that
our technological connection with nature was once an agent but now is one of both
master and slave. Questioning technology is consequently to break the restraints of
technology and be free, not in the absence of technology but through an improved
and better understanding of its essence and meaning. He proposes that there are two
ways to comprehend what technology is. One is instrumental, to view it as a means to
an end, while the other is to see it as human activity. The instrumental view of
technology emphases on a view of causality, which he breaks down into four
Aristotelian causes; causa materialis, causa formalis, causa final, and causa effciens.
These fours aspects of causality are in fact four aspect of being responsible for
bringing something into appearance.

Discussing techne, the root of technology, he observes that it encompasses

both the activities and skills of the craftsman but also the arts of the mind and fine arts
and concludes that techne belongs to bringing-forth. Heidegger avoids the allegation
that this view no longer holds true for modern, machine - powered technology. On the
other hand, he argues that modern technology, in its mutual relationship or reliance
with modern physics, is also revealing. All technology reveals, but modern
technology reveals not in the unfolding graceful sense but as a challenge, it sets upon
nature and accelerates its energy by unravelling it. Technology is not our fate; we are
not necessarily obliged along an unaltered and foreseeable course because
enframing have its place within the destining of revealing and destining is an open
space where people can heed and hear to that which is revealed. Freedom is the real,
of the destining that at any given time starts a revealing upon its way. Freedom then,
is to be found in the essence of technology but we are continually caused to believed
that the brink of possibility is that which is revealed in the ordering processes of
modern technology to create standing reserve deriving all our standards from this
basis. This is a danger because when the real is hidden it may be misunderstood.
When something is unconcealed it no longer concern us as an object but rather as
standing reserve and man amid object lessness is nothing but the ordered of the
standing reserve. When object is lost to the standing reserve, we ourselves become
standing reserve and see everything as our construct, seeing not objects everywhere
but the illusion and misunderstanding of encountering ourselves everywhere.
Therefore, that we can practice the questioning of the technology in the hope of
revealing the truth, which modern technology habitually conceals through the order
it imposes on the world.