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Understanding Heidegger's Technology

Authored by rochelle reyes

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

According to the instrumental definition, technology is:

A human activity

A means to an end

The essence of modern life

A form of science

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Martin Heidegger is recognized as:

A German scientist who studied machines

A German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition of philosophy

An engineer who created modern technology

A writer who defined technology as a human activity

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What analogy does Heidegger use to explain that the essence of technology is not technological?

The essence of water is not a river

The essence of a tree is not itself a tree

The essence of sound is not music

The essence of knowledge is not books

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

What is it called when humans become instruments of technology through enframing?

Standing Reserve

Destining

Meditation

Calculation

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Which type of thinking involves humans desiring to put an order to nature to better understand and control it?

Meditative Thinking

Critical Thinking

Calculative Thinking

Abstract Thinking

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

According to Heidegger, what does enframing represent?

A way of hiding nature from humans

A practice of destroying technology

A method of preserving nature untouched

A process of ordering or framing nature to manipulate it

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

FILL IN THE BLANKS.

In today’s “age of technology,” reality is only present

as raw material (________ _______)

a. Standing reserve

b. Standing reverse

c. Standing receive

d. Blank Slate

A

B

C

D

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