Lesson 6 Technology as a Way of Revealing.pdf

Science, Technology and Society

1. TECHNOLOGY AS A
WAY OF REVEALING
LESSON 6

2. Class Discussion
Question:
How would you compare the lives of the
people before and now?

3. PAST TO PRESENT

4. PAST TO PRESENT

5. PAST TO PRESENT

6. PAST TO PRESENT

7. PAST TO PRESENT

8. The term “generation gap” is attributed mainly to
the changes brought by technology.
These changes were brought about by the
interplay of different factors but essentially, it was
brought about by science and technology.
PAST TO PRESENT

9. Technology serves as the
basis to reveal human
condition.

10. Human Condition:
Before Common Era (BCE)
VS
Common Era (BCE)

11. Human Condition
in the Common Era (BCE)

12. BCE -SURVIVALCE -WEALTH

13. The Human Condition in the
Common Era (CE)
HOLOCENE EXTINCTION
➢Also called Anthropocene
extinction, or “Sixth extinction”
➢100,000-200,000 years up to
present
➢Pertains to the ongoing
extinction of several species-
both flora and fauna-due to
human activity.

14. EXTINCTION
The elimination of a species from Earth.

15. Causes of Holocene Extinction
1. Primal need to survive

16. Causes of Holocene Extinction
2.Growing population
-More demand, less supply

17. Causes of Holocene Extinction
3.Formation of Community
-Habitat destruction & Urbanization

18. Causes of Holocene Extinction
4.Illegal Wildlife Trade/
Overexploitation

19. Causes of Holocene Extinction
5.Global Warming and Pollution

20. Advent ofTechnology

21. Advancements in medicine, technology,
health, and education.
1.Mortality rate
•Due to technology,
lesser women and
children die during
birth.
•Advance medical care
for premature infants.
Advent ofTechnology

22. 2. Average Lifespan
•Science has able to
prolong lives by
enhancing living
status
•Distribution of
remedies & medicine
is more easier
Advent ofTechnology

23. Advent ofTechnology

24. 3. Literacy rate
•Access to
education to more
individuals has
made easier.
Advent ofTechnology

25. Advent ofTechnology

26. 4. Gross domestic
product
•Higher country
income is brought by
high productivity,
which indicates the
presence of
technology
Advent ofTechnology

27. Backtracking the Human Condition
ALL IN ALL THE HUMAN CONDITION IMPROVED,only if by
improving we measure the level of comfort, various
scientific breakthroughs, and improve lifestyles of those
who had the luxury to afford to do so.

28. Martin Heidegger

29. Technology as a Mode of Revealing
•Martin Heidegger urges us to
challenge Technology and see
beyond what it is.

30. Technology as a Mode of Revealing
•“The essence of a thing is considered
to be what the thing is.”
1.Technology is a mean to an end
2.Technology is a human activity
These two definition belong together.

31. Technology as a Mode of Revealing
•The whole complex of these contrivances
is technology
•Technology itself is a contrivance –an
instrumentum
•The current conception of technology
according to which it is a means and a
human activity, can therefore be called
the instrumentaland anthropological
definition of technology

32. Technology as a Mode of Revealing
•Instrumentaldefinition: Technology is a
means to an end
•Technology is an instrument aimed at
getting things done
•Anthropologicaldefinition: technology is a
human activity
•The production or invention od technological
equipment, tools, and machines, the products
and inventions, and the purpose and function
they serve are what define technology

33. Technology as a Mode of Revealing
•These definitions are correct but NOT
NECESSARILY TRUE
•“True” can be pursued through the correct
•The experience and understanding of what
is correct lead us to what is true.
•Heidegger urged people to envision
technology as a mode of revealing as it
shows so much more about the human
person and the world

34. Technology as a Mode of Revealing
•Technology is a way of bringing forth –
a making of something
•By considering this, the truth is brought
forth

35. Technology as a Mode of Revealing
•Heidegger opens up the Greek concepts of:
1. Aletheia
2. Poiesis
3. Techne

36. Technology as a Mode of Revealing
•Aletheia–unhiddennessor disclosure.
•Poeisis–bringing forth; it means making or
producing something for a purpose; poetry or
composition
•Techne–skills, art or craft. A means of bringing
forth something.
•Thus, technology is POEISESthat discloses or
reveals the truth

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