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Heidegger’s “The Questions Concerning Technology”

Name: Menard V. Cervantes

Section: BIT-C

Date: July 10, 2020

Reflection Paper

The Questions Concerning Technology” is a paper written by Martin “

Heidegger. After reading a lengthy essay concerning technology based on

Heidegger’s view, I’d like to say that it is indeed one of the most difficult texts to

Understand considering that it doesn’t only need once or twice for someone to

understand but maybe multiple times. For someone who is new and is interested to

this essay I would like to recommend reading it thoroughly and to not be discourage

for its 32 page essay. Based on how I understood everything, Heidegger on his

essay claimed three things, first is that technology is “not an instrument” but

instead it is a way of better understanding the world. Second, is that technology “is

not a human activity” but which develops beyond human control. And third is that

technology “is the highest danger”, risking us to only see the world through

technological thinking. It may seem easy to understand those 3 claims but that’s

.how far I think the gist of the whole essay was all about

Based on how I’ve understood the paper, we humans focus on technology

that is that is something built or created for our own motivations and reasons that

.”led to us using it for efficiency and practical use, blinding us from its true “essence

Heidegger here is concerned that “the essence of modern technology starts man

upon the way of that revealing through which the real everywhere, more or less

distinctly, becomes standing reserve”. Meaning that the human “essence” behind

.technology is a drive to put things into order and just use them for practical results
We have become so focused on technology with a practical mind that somehow it

blinded us to the fact that it should be understood as something such as art or

philosophy. We should never take technology for granted and never thought of it as

part of a human progress and instead think of it as something rooted in human

.choices and influence

We can’t deny that without technology we may still remain as beings during

the Stone Age. Technology indeed has added comfort to our lives and it has become

deeply ingrained in human life. I think overall Heidegger wanted us to think again

why we make technology, what its purpose and whether it is fulfilling to our interest

both for humankind and the world. The author only wanted us to never forget the

.essence of making art as a process of revealing and discovery

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