TECHNOLOGY AS A

WAY OF REVEALING
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 Explain the concept of human condition before science and technology.
 Identify the change that happened in human condition after science and
technology.
 Name ways on how technology aided in revealing the truth about the human
being; and
 Analyze the human condition in order to deeply reflect and express
philosophical ramification that are meaningful to the students as a part of
society.
LESSON 1: THE HUMAN CONDITION
BEFORE THE COMMON ERA
 Discoveries and massive invention for community development started with
increased needs of human beings way back the primal age. From maximizing
the use of stones, people tend to discover minerals and began forging
metalwork. Like the people today, it can be inferred that our ancestors also
found the need to explain things in a way that makes sense to them
especially to events that are outside of their control and the work of
supernatural being has been their commonly used justification to explain
these things.
LESSON 2. THE HUMAN CONDITION
IN THE COMMON ERA
 The earliest date of human extinction occurred over 12, 000 years ago
possibly due to hunting and territorial disputes and natural disasters. The so
called “sixth extinction” or the Halocene extinction (anthropocene extinction)
occurred from as early as between 100, 000 to 200, 000 years up to the
present. Due to human activity, the extinction of several species both flora
and fauna is on-going and increasing. In searching for a good life, technology
has been largely instrumental. People were able to develop ways to have
easier, more comfortable and more enriching life. With time and continuous
increased of communities and different races, beliefs, and abundance of
territory/ resources, wars are being waged therefore, communities also
include allocation of their resources to organizing their armed forces. These
innovators were primarily the ones behind discoveries and triumphs of these
civilizations.
LESSON 2. HEIDEGGER: THE QUESTION
CONCERNING TECHNOLOGY
 Martin Heidegger is a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the
continental tradition of philosophy. He is widely acknowledged to be one of
the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century. He wrote
an essay entitled “The Question Concerning Technology” which addresses
modern technology and its essence as an instrumental way of revealing the
world.
HEIDEGGER’S VIEW ON THE
ESSENCE OF TECHNOLOGY
 1. Technology is not something we make; it is a mode of being or of revealing.
Technological things have their own way of presenting themselves with their
presence, endurance; connections as parts and as a whole in the world they
operate.
 2. People do not normally think of as technological, such as gods and history.
 3. It is primarily a matter of modern and industrial technology. Heidegger is
less concerned with the ancient and old tools and techniques that antedate
modernity; the essence of technology is revealed in factories and industrial
processes, not in hammers and plows.
 4. Technology is not simply the practical application of natural science.
Instead, modern natural science 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 – that is to say,
technologically.
HEIDEGGER’S TWO CHARACTERISTICS OF
MODERN TECHNOLOGY AS A REVEALING
PROCESS
 1. The mode of revealing modern technology is challenging.
- Things are revealed of brought forth by challenging or demanding them.
It is putting to nature the unreasonable demand that it supply energy that
can be extracted and stored. It sees nature as an object manipulation and
not anymore as autonomous reality demanding respect and admiration.
The network of things is now reduced into the network of manipulation.
Example:
a. Mining technology of today wherein nature was at risk of supplying
increased demand of sourcing out energy.
b. Flower blossoming and fading as a nature’s way of revealing
HEIDEGGER’S TWO CHARACTERISTICS OF
MODERN TECHNOLOGY AS A REVEALING
PROCESS
 2. Modern technology as a revealing process is that of challenging,
which bring forth the energy of nature as “expediting.” Expediting-
means to hasten the movement of something. It is also a process
of revealing inasmuch as it “unlocks” and “exposes” something.
- Things that are revealed in an expedited manner are brought
forth as resources that must be used efficiently. For example in
mining, man digs coal not simply to know what coals are but
man wants to use them. To be used as man’s source of energy,
truckloads of land were mined to produce coals. It shows that
coals are there “for” something and this is the characteristic of
the things revealed in modern technology.
WHAT IS EN-FRAMING?
 -simply means putting into the frame of modern technology is the network of
interlocking things standing in reserve. It is the world centered or man’s
caprices and demands. It is a world of manipulation and demystification and
here, nothing is mysterious anymore.
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