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What Three Significant Insights Did You Gain in Studying This Text?

Martin Heidegger argues that correctly defining technology instrumentally does not reveal technology's true essence. To understand technology's essence, one must seek the true meaning by way of the correct definition. Heidegger asks what the instrumental aspects of technology themselves are, and what ends and means belong within. Only by uncovering technology's true essence can we have a free relationship with that which concerns us from technology.

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What Three Significant Insights Did You Gain in Studying This Text?

Martin Heidegger argues that correctly defining technology instrumentally does not reveal technology's true essence. To understand technology's essence, one must seek the true meaning by way of the correct definition. Heidegger asks what the instrumental aspects of technology themselves are, and what ends and means belong within. Only by uncovering technology's true essence can we have a free relationship with that which concerns us from technology.

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human control.

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c. ” Only at the point where such an uncovering happens does the true come to pass. For
that reason the merely correct is not yet the true. Only the true brings us into a free relationship
with that which concerns us from out of its essence. Accordingly, the correct instrumental
definition of technology still does not show us technology’s essence. In order that we may arrive
at this, or at least come close to it, we must seek the true by way of the correct. We must ask:
What is the instrumental itself? Within what do such things as means and end belong?””

2. What three significant insights did you gain in studying this text?

a. By studying the text of the “Question Concerning Technology” by Martin Heidegger, I


have now realized that technology is not just an "instrument", but also a way of deeply
understanding the world, a window to each other's conditions, linking each one of us digitally.

b. After reading the text of Martin Heidegger's “The Question Concerning Technology”, I
now know and understand that technology is not only a "human activity, but it grows beyond
human control.

c. By studying the text of the “Question Concerning Technology” by Martin Heidegger, I


have now realized that technology is the greatest and highest threat, risking us seeing the world
only through technological thought or thinking.

3. What three questions do you want to ask about the text?

a. What is the true and real essence of technology to the world?


b. What is the purpose or importance of questioning technology?
c. What does Martin Heidegger mean by seeing technology as a human activity?

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