Module 5: Technology as a Way of Revealing (Martin Heidegger)

Vocabulary flashcards covering Martin Heidegger's philosophy on technology as a way of revealing, Enframing, Standing Reserve, and related concepts.

Martin Heidegger

The philosopher who examined the deeper meaning of modern technology, defining it as a "way of revealing" that discloses reality.

Way of Revealing

The concept that technology is not merely a machine or tool, but a process that discloses, unconceals, or brings aspects of reality into view.

Essence of Technology

Heidegger's principle stating that the underlying nature of technology is not itself technological, but rather a mode of revealing and understanding reality.

The Question Concerning Technology

One of Martin Heidegger's major philosophical works examining the essence and deeper meaning of technology.

The Turning

A major work by Martin Heidegger addressing his philosophical reflections on technology.

Techne

The ancient Greek root of the word technology, which referred to a mode of knowing, making, uncovering, and bringing something into the light.

Standing Reserve (Bestand)

The view under modern technology where nature, animals, and humans are treated primarily as resources stored, ordered, controlled, and ready for use.

Enframing (Das Ge-stell)

Heidegger's key concept for the way modern technology orders and interprets reality as standing reserve through calculation, control, productivity, and efficiency.

Supreme Danger of Technology

The condition where technological thinking (enframing) dominates human thought, leading people to forget Being and view everything, including themselves, solely as resources.

Homelessness

Heidegger's term for modern humanity's loss of a deeper sense of belonging and Being-in-the-world, resulting in an alienating, routine, and homogenized existence.

Anxiety

In Heidegger's philosophy, an emotion that reveals displacement and alienation, serving as a foreboding of homelessness where the familiar world feels foreign.