The Question Concerning Technology
  • The Question Concerning Technology
  • 📑Summaries
    • The Essence of Technology (p. 3 - 12)
    • Enframing, the Essence of Modern Technology (p. 13 - 24)
    • The Danger and The Saving Power (p. 25 - 35)
  • 🧾Concordances
    • Bringing
    • Danger
    • Destining
    • Enframing
    • Essence
    • Gestell
  • 📚Text
    • Questioning technology (p. 3)
    • Essence of technology (p. 4)
    • Definitions of technology (p. 5)
    • The four causes (p. 6)
    • Causality (p. 7)
    • Co-responsibility of four causes (p. 8)
    • Hypokeisthai (p. 9)
    • Poiēsis (p. 10)
    • Bringing-forth (p. 11)
    • Revealing (p. 12)
    • Technē and bringing-forth (p. 13)
    • Modern technology (p. 14)
    • Setting-upon (p. 15)
    • Challenging revealing (p. 16)
    • Standing-reserve (p. 17)
    • Ordering revealing (p. 18)
    • Ge-stell (p. 19)
    • Enframing (p. 20)
    • Revealing in modern technology (p. 21)
    • Modern technology and physics (p. 22)
    • The rule of enframing (p. 23)
    • Destining (p. 24)
    • The clearing (p. 25)
    • The danger (p. 26)
    • Concealment of revealing (p. 27)
    • The saving power (p. 28)
    • Enframing and destining (p. 29)
    • Essence (p. 30)
    • Destining is a granting (p. 31)
    • Granting is the saving power (p. 32)
    • The mystery of all revealing (p. 33)
    • Technē (p. 34)
    • Reflection and questioning (p. 35)
  • Footnotes
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Questioning technology (p. 3)

In this page, Heidegger outlines his approach for this essay, which is questioning. He argues that questioning technology will allow us to have a free relationship to it.

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In what follows we shall be questioning concerning technology. Questioning builds a way. We would be advised, therefore, above all to pay heed to the way, and not to fix our attention on isolated sentences and topics. The way is a way of thinking. All ways of thinking, more or less perceptibly, lead through language in a manner that is extraordinary. We shall be questioning concerning technology, and in so doing we should like to prepare a free rela­tionship to it. The relationship will be free if it opens our human existence to the essence of technology. When we

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