Danger
Every instance of the word "danger" used by Heidegger in The Question Concerning Technology and its immediate context is listed here in chronological order.
Extract of the essay containing the word "danger"
...Placed between these possibilities, man is endangered from out of destining...
...in every one of its modes, and therefore necessarily, danger...
...everything that is shows itself at any given time harbors the danger that man may quail...
...everything that is shows itself at any given time harbors the danger that man...
...but precisely through these successes the danger can remain that...
...The destining of revealing is in itself not just any danger, but danger as such...
...Yet when destining reigns in the mode of Enframing, it is the supreme danger...
...This danger attests itself to us in two ways...
...But Enframing does not simply endanger man in his relationship to himself...
...The destining that sends into ordering is consequently the extreme danger...
...What is dangerous is not technology...
...The essence of technology, as a destining of revealing, is the danger...
...if we think Enframing in the sense of destining and danger...
...Thus, where Enframing reigns, there is danger in the highest sense...
...But where danger is, grows The saving power also...
...If the essence of technology, Enframing, is the extreme danger; and if there is truth...
...In what respect does the saving power grow there also where the danger is...
...we have no right whatsoever to expect that there where the danger is we should be able...
...thence thrive even in that wherein the extreme danger lies, in the holding sway...
...last step upon our way, to look with yet clearer eyes into the danger...
...But if this destining, Enframing, is the extreme danger, not only for man's coming to presence...
...into the danger of the surrender of his free essence - it is precisely in this extreme danger that the...
...coming-to-pass of revealing and so radically endangers the relation...
...We look into the danger and see the growth of the saving power...
...This includes holding always before our eyes the extreme danger...
...Human activity can never directly counter this danger...
...all saving power must be of a higher essence than what is endangered, though at the same...
...shining forth in the midst of the danger, a revealing that in the technological age...
...the words But where danger is, grows The saving power also...
...of its essence in the midst of the extreme danger, no one can tell...
...The closer we come to the danger, the more brightly do the ways into...
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