Self-check Test

A. Question and Answer: Answer the following questions briefly but correctly.
Write your answer/s on the space below each item

1. Why must technology be understood as “a way of revealing”?

● Technology is the way revealing that characterizes our times.

2. What does technology reveal about the world?

● Technology reveals the world as raw materials, available for
production and manipulation.

3. What is the essence of technology?

● Primarily a matter of modern and industrial technology.

4. How can technology be considered essentially?

● To see it as an event to which we belong, the structuring, ordering,
and “requisitioning” of everything around us, and of ourselves.

5. Technology is not simply the practical application of natural science. Why?

● Far more is modern natural science, the application of the essence of
technology.

6. There is something wrong with the modern technological culture we live in today.
Why?
● In our age of technology reality can only be present as a raw
material.

7. The technological understanding of “being”, is to be seen as the ultimate danger.

Why?
● There is the danger that humans also interpret themselves as raw
materials.

8. Every attempt to climb out of technology throws us back in. The only way out is
“the will not to will”. How?
● We need to open up the possibility of relying on technologies while
not becoming enslaved to them and seeing them as manifestations
of an understanding of being.

9. There are two dominant ways of understanding technology – instrumental and as

human activity. At this point, what does technology refer to?
● Technology refers to the means that humans use to obtain resources
and modify the world around them. Function, related to technology,
refers to how tools, equipment,and facilities were used by humans in
the past.
10. What is dangerous is that technology displaces beings from what they originally
were. How?
● Hindering our ability to experience them truly.

B. Fill-in-the Blank: Fill the blank with the correct and best answer (word or group
of words).

1. Given the views of technology, it follows that only scientific account obscures the
essential being of many things, including their “nearness”. We can experience
nearness if we must encounter things in their truth.

2. In order to understand the essence of technology we must also understand

things non-technologically; we must enter the realm where things can show
themselves to us truthfully in a manner not limited to the technological. But
technology is such a domineering force that it all but eliminates our ability to
“experience this realm”. “Experience this realm” is the possibility of
understanding the interrelated, meaningful, practical involvements with our
surroundings that heidegger describes is almost obliterated.
3. The problem is not just that technology makes it harder for us to access that
realm, but that it makes us altogether forget that the realm exists.The
understanding of man’s essence as openness to this realm and of
technology is the only way in which things can reveal themselves and which is
the guide for keeping technology within its proper bounds.

4. The distortion and the overreaching that make elements of technology

questionable are in fact visible within technological activity itself because of the
larger and ordered world to which it belongs. To experience technology is also to
experience its limits.

5. Precisely, the key to understanding technology and to guiding it is to wonder

about the ordinary question of how to use technology well, not piece by piece to
serve isolated desires, but as part of a whole way of life (Blitz, 2014).

6. Human flourishing involves the rational use of one’s individual human

potentialities, including talents, abilities, and virtues in the pursuit of his freely
and rationally chosen values and goals.

7. The role of technology in human flourishing lies in “It changes us - and the
world around us” - in countless ways.

8. Specifically, technology“It changes us - and the world around us” - in

countless ways by: eases our labor, cures diseases, provides abundant food
and clean water, enables communication and travel across the globe, and
expands our knowledge about the natural world and the cosmos.
 9. Our present age of technological innovation is fraught with concern for
unintended consequences. It contributes to and, at times, compromises human
flourishing.

10. Each man's life has a purpose and that the function of one's life is to attain that
purpose. The purpose of life is earthly happiness or flourishing that can be
achieved via reason and the acquisition of virtue.

C. Identification: Identify the correct and best answer of the following items.
Choose your answer from the choices below. Write only the letter of your choice
on the blank provided before each number.

A. natural desire and capacity

B. one of excellent human activity
C. human flourishing and a good human life
D. happiness and enjoyment
E. person is concurrently doing what he ought to do and doing what he wants to do
F. talents, abilities, and virtues
G. human flourishing
H. ability to reason
I. practical reason
J. how things ought to be in the outside world
K. moral development

D 1. Each human being should use his abilities to their fullest potential. What should
be obtained through the exercise of their realized capacities?

A 2. What do human beings have in order to know and understand the truth, to pursue
moral excellence, and to instantiate their ideals in the world through action.

H 3. What separates man from all other living organisms and supplies him with his
unique means of survival and flourishing?

B 4. Flourishing is the highest good of human endeavors and that toward which all
actions aim. It is success as a human being. What is considered as “the best life”?

E 5. When does human flourishing occur?

C 6. There are attributes central to human nature. What does the development of which
lead to?

F 7. Human flourishing (also known as personal flourishing) involves the rational use of
one's individual human potentialities, in the pursuit of his freely and rationally chosen
values and goals. What are these human potentialities?
J 8. Human flourishing is positively related to a rational man's attempts to externalize
his values and actualize his internal views. What are the internal views referred to?

I 9. What can be used to choose, create, and integrate all the values and virtues that
comprise personal flourishing?

K 10. It is the reward of the virtues and values and happiness is the goal and reward of
it. It is, at the same time, a moral accomplishment and a fulfilment of human capacities,
and it is one through being the other.

Assessment for Learning

A. Fill-in-the Blank: Fill the blank with the correct and best answer. Write only the
letter of your choice on the blank provided before each item.

A. understanding the interrelated, meaningful, practical involvements with our

surroundings
B. part of a whole way of life
C. encounter things in their truth
D. man’s essence as openness to this realm and of technology
E. experience its limits
F. individual human potentialities
G. knowledge about the natural world and the cosmos
H. earthly happiness
I. “It changes us – and the world around us”- in countless ways
J. human flourishing
K. ability to reason

C 1. Given the views of technology, it follows that only scientific account obscures the
essential being of many things, including their “nearness”. We can experience
nearness if we must encounter things in their truth.

A 2. In order to understand the essence of technology we must also understand things

non-technologically; we must enter the realm where things can show themselves to us
truthfully in a manner not limited to the technological. But technology is such a
domineering force that it all but eliminates our ability to “experience this realm”.
“Experience this realm” is the possibility of understanding the interrelated,
meaningful, practical involvements with our surroundings.
D 3. The problem is not just that technology makes it harder for us to access that realm,
but that it makes us altogether forget that the realm exists. The understanding of man’s
essence as openness to this realm and of technology is the only way in which
things can reveal themselves and which is the guide for keeping technology within its
proper bounds.
E 4. The distortion and the overreaching that make elements of technology questionable
are in fact visible within technological activity itself because of the larger and ordered
world to which it belongs. To experience technology is also to experience its limits.

B 5. Precisely, the key to understanding technology and to guiding it is to wonder about

the ordinary question of how to use technology well, not piece by piece to serve isolated
desires, but as part of a whole way of life.

F 6. Human flourishing involves the rational use of one’s individual human

potentialities, including talents, abilities, and virtues in the pursuit of his freely and
rationally chosen values and goals.

I 7. The role of technology in human flourishing lies in “It changes us - and the world
around us” - in countless ways.

G 8. Specifically, technology “changes us – and the world around us by: eases our
labor, cures diseases, provides abundant food and clean water, enables communication
and travel across the globe, and expands our knowledge about the natural world and
the cosmos.
J 9. Our present age of technological innovation is fraught with concern for unintended
consequences. It contributes to and, at times, compromises human flourishing.

H 10. Each man's life has a purpose and that the function of one's life is to attain that
purpose. The purpose of life is earthly happiness that can be achieved via reason and
the acquisition of virtue.

B. Identification: Identify the correct and best answer of the following items. Write
only the letter of your choice on the blank provided for each number.

A. natural desire and capacity

B. one of excellent human activity
C. human flourishing and a good human life
D. happiness and enjoyment
E. person is concurrently doing what he ought to do and doing what he wants to do
F. talents, abilities, and virtues
G. human flourishing
H. ability to reason
I. practical reason
J. how things ought to be in the outside world
K. moral development
L. as raw material, available for production and manipulation
M. mode of being, or of revealing
N. Everything we perceive or think of or interact with emerges out of concealment
into unconcealment
 O. can understand nature in the characteristically scientific manner only because
nature has already, in advance, come to light as a set of calculable, orderable
forces
P. humans will also interpret themselves as raw materials
Q. see it as an event to which we belong
R. Technological way of revealing was not chosen by humans
S. The means that humans use to obtain resources to modify the world around
them
T. hinders our ability to experience technology truly
U. Open up the possibility of relying on technologies while not becoming enslaved to
them and seeing them as manifestations of an understanding of being
V. individual human potentialities

D 1. Each human being should use his abilities to their fullest potential. What should
be obtained through the exercise of their realized capacities?

A 2. What do human beings have in order to know and understand the truth, to pursue
moral excellence, and to instantiate their ideals in the world through action.

H 3. What separates man from all other living organisms and supplies him with his
unique means of survival and flourishing?

B 4. Flourishing is the highest good of human endeavors and that toward which all
actions aim. It is success as a human being. What is considered as “the best life”?

E 5. When does human flourishing occur?

C 6. There are attributes central to human nature. What does the development of which
lead to?

F 7. Human flourishing (also known as personal flourishing) involves the rational use of
one's individual human potentialities, in the pursuit of his freely and rationally chosen
values and goals. What are these human potentialities?

J 8. Human flourishing is positively related to a rational man's attempts to externalize

his values and actualize his internal views. What are the internal views referred to?

I 9. What can be used to choose, create, and integrate all the values and virtues that
comprise personal flourishing?

K 10. It is the reward of the virtues and values and happiness is the goal and reward of
it. It is, at the same time, a moral accomplishment and a fulfilment of human capacities,
and it is one through being the other.

G 11. Why must technology be understood as “a way of revealing”?

L 12. What does technology reveal about the world?

M 13. What is the essence of technology?

Q 14. How can technology be considered essentially?

O 15. Technology is not simply the practical application of natural science. Why?

R 16. There is something wrong with the modern technological culture we live in today.
Why?

P 17. The technological understanding of “being”, is to be seen as the ultimate danger.

Why?

U 18. Every attempt to climb out of technology throws us back in. The only way out is
“the will not to will:. How?

S 19. There are two dominant ways of understanding technology – instrumental and as
human activity. At this point, what does technology refer to?

T 20. What is dangerous is that technology displaces beings from what they originally
were. How?

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