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 --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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