TECHNOLOGY AS

A WAY OF REVEALING
MODULE 7 WEEK 8
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The students shall be able to analyze the

human condition in order to deeply
reflect and express philosophical
ramifications that are meaningful;  to the
student as a part of society.
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Compare the two (2) images below:

What is the most striking

difference between them?
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How will you describe the word "technology"? Go to
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Technology as a Way of Revealing

What is Cosmology?
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Cosmology

 the study of the nature of the universe  as a whole entity

 derived from the Greek kosmos meaning harmony or
order
 cosmologists are interested in the formation, evolution
and future of the universe and its constituents.
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The James Webb telescope is the world’s
largest space telescope and is expected to
capture views of the dimmest  and oldest
galaxies in the universe and gaze
into cloudy nebulas where stars and
planetary systems are formed (Wray,
2017). 
It is expected to be launched in space by
2019 if all tests prove successful, and
will serve as NASA’s “premier 
https://www.space.com/21925-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst.html
observatory” for the next decade.
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The following are the advancement of technology in
Cosmology which slowly revealed the world beyond us.
Date Milestone

600-130 BCE Greeks were the first to develop astronomy into a theoretical
science
1543 AD Copernicus proposed the heliocentric view of the Universe. 

1668 AD Sir Isaac Newton invented the first reflecting telescope.

1905 AD Albert Einstein introduces the special theory of relativity.

1923 Edwin Hubble proved that galaxies are separate systems

outside our own Milky Way.
1937- First radio telescope built in the USA by Grote Reber. 
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Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to
this, then another whole realm for the essence of
technology  will open itself up to us. It is the realm
of revealing i.e., of truth. 

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Four Causes to Explain the Knowledge of a Thing
According to Aristotle 
1. Causa materialis - The material cause: “that out of which”,
e.g., the material out of which a silver chalice is made. Ex -
Why must silver or wood be chosen as the primary material for
the chalice? 
2. Causa formulis - The formal cause: “the form”, “the account
of what-it-is-to-be”, e.g., the shape into which the  material is
fashioned (shape of the chalice). 
Ex- Why must the chalice be shaped that way, in relation to the
occasion being celebrated? 
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Four Causes to Explain the Knowledge of a Thing
According to Aristotle 
3. Causa finalis - The final cause/purpose: “the end, that for the
sake of which a thing is done”, e.g., the chalice is  made for the
holy rite of communion.
Ex- The chalice is made for a particular kind of activity, and its
existence (as sacrificial vessel) is determined by this  context. 
4. Causa efficiens - The efficient cause: “the primary source of
the change or rest”, e.g., the artisan, or the silversmith  who
crafts the chalice. 
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Four Causes to Explain the Knowledge of a Thing
According
  to Aristotle 
Ex - The silversmith is not just seen as the agent that affects the
production of the chalice, but also the one  responsible for the
“revealing” of the chalice from the original material. 
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Technology is enframing.
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Enframing

 a phenomenon in which our perspective is framed: we onle

notice or care about or pay attention to  what can be done
quickly or results in an efficient and further useable product
(Cunning, 2015)
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Enframing
Examples:
1. When an engineer sees a river, s/he may perceive it as a
source of hydroelectric power. S/he sees the river through
the eyes of technology.
2. Another example would be human interest “in what others
think of us, our immersion in idle talk, instead of the
more philosophical thoughts of which we are capable”
(Kuperus, 2016).
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Technology is not the end fate of humans. We must not be

enslaved by it. It must only serve to reveal our humanity,
an instrument to better ourselves, the people around us, and
nature. In the technological age, for something to 'be'
means for it to be raw material - part of the endless process of
production and consumption.
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Martin Heidegger

The 'question concerning technology' is ultimately a question

about human dignity. Modern technology reveals the world in the
manner of a challenging forth (Herausfordem) and not in the
manner of a leading forth from concealment into unconcealment
(her-vor-bringen).This challenging forth confront what lies in
potential by extracting it in order to use it, and not as a
phenomenologically discoverable essence in need of
safeguarding.
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Martin Heidegger

This challenging forth unlocks and exposes; and is always

directed at something else - the maximum yield at the
minimum expense. The goal of technology as a whole is thus the
endless pursuit of efficiency in the exploitation of resources. For
Heidegger, technology possesses a highly ambiguous nature: it
is dangerous, since it is the supreme provocation,
and yet it is salutary since we have no other access to the truth of
Being in our times.
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Martin Heidegger

How does technology become a way of revealing, as the way in

which modern human beings accesses truth?
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Martin Heidegger

Reflecting on the ancient Greeks, Heidegger notes that the root

of the word 'technology' is techne. For the Greeks,
techne meant a revelation of something and uncovering or a
bringing to light. The word techne according to Heidegger then
means a mode of knowing.
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Martin Heidegger

Technology is in its essence a destiny within the history of Being

and of the truth of Being, a truth that lies in oblivion. For
technology does not go back to the techne of the Greeks in name
only but derives historically and essentially from techne as a
mode of aletheuein, a mode, that is, of rendering beings manifest
[Offenbarmachen]. As a form of truth technology is grounded in
the history of metaphysics, which is itsef a distinctive and up to
now the only perceptible phase of the history of Being.
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