The Question Concerning Technology Quiz!
10 Questions
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Questions and Answers
- 1.How Heidegger's think generally about technology?
- A.
It is a means to an end.
- B.
It is way of life.
- C.
It is upgraded.
- D.
It is new and faster way of inquiry.
- 2.Which of the following is the true definition of technology?
- A.
It instrumental and psychological.
- B.
It is instrumental aimed at getting things done and anthropological a human activity.
- C.
It is anthropological that make things done on time.
- D.
All of the above.
- 3.In our ‘age of technology,’ reality can only be present as a raw material as a ‘standing reserve.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.Heidegger uses the example of a silver chalice, the kind used in the Christian rite of communion, to illustrate the traditional model of the two causes.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Which of the following means "bringing forth."?
- A.
Aletheia
- B.
Instrumentum
- C.
Technology
- D.
Poeisis
- 6.Heidegger anticipates an objection to his representation of modern technology as, which of the following?
- A.
"a mode of revealing."
- B.
"poeisis"
- C.
Challenging forth
- D.
"way of enframing"
- 7.The question of the essence of technology, Heidegger now argues, we will come to see that technology is a kind of poeisis, a way of bringing forth or revealing--and, as such, is "the realm of truth".
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.The revealing that rules in modern technology are challenging, which puts to nature the unreasonable demand that it supply energy which can be extracted and stored as such.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.Heidegger argues, technology transforms humanity itself into standing-reserve.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.Heidegger goes on to describe how this fundamental relationship between humanity and the world gives rise to a particular human orientation to the world, an orientation or attitude he calls ______________.
- A.
Revealing
- B.
Poiesis
- C.
Enframing
- D.
Aletheia
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