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Exercise 2. Reflection: 1. What Three Concepts Remain Unclear or Difficult For You To Understand?

The document discusses concepts from Martin Heidegger's work "The Question Concerning Technology" that remain unclear or difficult to understand. Specifically, it mentions two concepts: a) the idea that the essence of technology is not equivalent to technology itself, and that the essence pervades technology but is not technology, and b) the notion that modern technology is a means to an end, and that we must master technology spiritually by properly manipulating it as an instrument. The document instructs the reader to reflect on these two unclear concepts from Heidegger's work.

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Exercise 2. Reflection: 1. What Three Concepts Remain Unclear or Difficult For You To Understand?

The document discusses concepts from Martin Heidegger's work "The Question Concerning Technology" that remain unclear or difficult to understand. Specifically, it mentions two concepts: a) the idea that the essence of technology is not equivalent to technology itself, and that the essence pervades technology but is not technology, and b) the notion that modern technology is a means to an end, and that we must master technology spiritually by properly manipulating it as an instrument. The document instructs the reader to reflect on these two unclear concepts from Heidegger's work.

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Exercise 2.

Reflection
Instructions: After studying the full text of Martin Heidegger's The Question Concerning
Technology
Answer the following:

1. What three concepts remain unclear or difficult for you to understand?

a. ”Technology is not equivalent to the essence of technology. When we are seeking the
essence of “tree,” we have to become aware that that which pervades every tree, as tree, is not
itself a tree that can be encountered among all the other trees.”

b. ” But this much remains correct: modern technology too is a means to an end. That is
why the instrumental conception of technology conditions every attempt to bring man into the
right relation to technology. Everything depends on our manipulating technology in the proper
manner as a means. We will, as we say, “get” technology “spiritually in hand.” We will master it.
The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from

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