File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9804, message 73


Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 07:06:07 +0400
From: Alex <intech-AT-intsar.com>
Subject: technology questions


15 April 1998

        What are differences between science and technology since both
are activities of discovery (cognitive activities)? Does technology have
its own epistemology different from that of science? Is technology a
culture?
       Middle Heidegger (roughly from the 1930s to 1950) added that
there have been a series of
total understandings of being in the West, each focused by a cultural
paradigm which he
called a work of art. He distinguished roughly six epochs in our
changing understanding of
being. First things were understood on the model of wild nature as
physis, i.e. as springing
forth on their own. Then on the basis of poeisis, or nurturing, things
were dealt with as
needing to be helped to come forth. This was followed by an
understanding of things as
finished works, which in turn led to the understanding of all beings as
creatures produced by
a creator God. This religious world gave way to the modern one in which
everything was
organized to stand over against and satisfy the desires of autonomous
and stable subjects.
In 1950, Heidegger claimed, that
we were entering a final epoch which he called the technological
understanding of being.

Alex



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