Main points and a part of Martin Heidegger: The Question Concerning Technology • Bringing Forth (Poeisis, Alethiea, Techne) • Technology Challenge Forth • Enframing as Modern’s Technology Way of Revealing (Calculative Thinking and Meditative Thinking)

1. Heidegger: Technology as
Way of Revealing
(The Technological View of the World of Martin Heidegger)

2. Technology as a Way of Revealing
● Heidegger stressed that the
true can only be pursued
through the correct.
● He envisioned technology
as a way of revealing - a
mode of “bringing forth.”

3. Ancient Greek Words/Concepts that can be understood
as “Bringing Forth”
Poiesis It refers to the act of bringing something
out of concealment.
Aletheia It is translated as unclosedness, disclosure
or truth.
Techne It is the revealing of truth into the splendor
of radiant apperance. It resembles the term
episteme—the human ability to make and
perform.

4. Does Modern
Technology
Bring Forth
or Challenge
Forth?

5. ● He explained that modern technology is revealing not in
the sense of bringing forth or poesis.
● He considers modern technology’s way of revealing as
a way of challenging forth now that it makes people
how to do things faster, more effectively and with less
effort.
Technology Challenging Forth

6. ● Calculative Thinking
Humans desire to put an
order to nature to better
understand and control it.
Enframing, according to Heidegger, is similar to two ways of
looking at the world:
● Meditative Thinking
Humans allow nature to
reveal itself to them
without the use of force
and violence.
Enframing as Modern Technology’s
Way of Revealing

7. Enframing as Modern Technology’s
Way of Revealing
● Modern technology challenges humans to
enframe nature.
● The role humans take as instruments of
technology through enframing is called
destining.
● In destining, humans are challenged forth
by enframing to reveal:
1. what is real
2. nature carries with it the danger of
misconstruction or misinterpretation