Heidegger explores the essence of technology and how it reveals the world. He argues that technology is not just a means to an end, but rather a way of revealing that frames nature as "standing reserve" or resources to exploit. Modern technology challenges nature to provide energy and supplies in an ordering that risks denying humanity a more original relationship with truth. However, Heidegger sees the danger of technology not as demonic but as the possibility that its way of revealing the world as standing reserve could close us off from other, more primal modes of revelation.

1. The Question Concerning Technology Martin Heidegger

2. Question(s) What is technology? How do we think about it? What does it mean to us? Legein - to deliberate, carefully consider

3. Etymology Techne (Greek root of technology) 1 activities, skills of craftsman 2 arts of mind, fine arts “ the bringing-forth of the true into the beautiful”

4. Defining Technology instrumental definition: Technology is a means to an end anthropological definition: Technology is a human activity

5. Essence Quid - what something is, whatness Essence “ technology is not equivalent to the essence of technology” Essence of technology - not technological

6. Causality 1 causa materialis - material cause 2 causa formalis - formal cause 3 causa finalis - final purpose 4 causa eficiens - effective cause, maker Ways of being responsible

8. Bringing-Forth Occasion - to make present (not the same as to cause) Poiesis - bringing-forth, root word of poetry Technology and art both bringing-forth

9. Revealing Aletheia - revealing, unveiling, truth Technology is a way of revealing “ Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place”

10. Challenging Herausfordern - challenging Type of revealing inherent of modern technology, demand that nature supply energy Hydroelectric plant - challenging to unlock power in nature Windmill - old technology does not challenge

11. Standing Reserve Bestand - Standing reserve, stock elements that can be used Instrumentality Modern technology - the world as a standing reserve

12. Enframing Gestell - frame, apparatus, skeleton Enframing - human orientation toward technology, the essence of technology “ the gathering together of that setting-upon which sets upon man, challenges him forth, to reveal the real, in the mode of ordering, as standing-reserve”

13. Technology and us Danger of technology – danger of enframing “ there is no demonry of technology” but “the rule of enframing threatens man with the possibility that it cold be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth”

14. References http://www.english.hawaii.edu/criticalink/heidegger/guide2.html http://www2.hawaii.edu/~zuern/demo/heidegger/ http://www.beyng.com/ereignis.html Image 1 - http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~theoria/images/heidegger2.jpg Image 2 - http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/6217648.jpg Image 3 - http://www2.hawaii.edu/~zuern/demo/heidegger/chalice.gif