Defition of Technology

The Conceptual thinking

Concerning Technology
Questioning
For the sake of
“preparing” a free
relationship

A free relationship is one

that opens our existence,
our Da-Sein to the
essence of technology
— Technology is not the same as, not equivalent to the
essence of technology
— “the essence of technology is by no means anything
technological”
— “Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to
technology”
— Technology is conceptually defined as
ØHardware
ØRule of techniques
ØSystems
ØTechnological
vSystemic application of knowledge
vApplied approach
— Technology should netral
— “But we are delivered over to it in the worst
possible way when we regard it as something
neutral”
— According to traditional philosophy, we can ask
the question of essence by asking “what”
something is.
— Technology is
— a means to an end – Instrumental definition
— a human activity -- Anthropological definition
— Both definitions are “correct” but the correct is
not the same as the true… (312)
Tools, of a kind
The Four Causes: Didactic Illustration
Controlling Technology
— We seek to master — This is problematic in
technology the event (and
— I.e., as Heidegger says, Heidegger will defend
we seek to “’get’ this point) that
technology ‘spiritually in technology might be
hand.’ … The will to something other than a
mastery becomes all the “mere means”
more urgent the more — We need a free relation
technology threatens to to technology
slip from human — And we can seek the
control.” true by way of the
correct.