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.

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. [1] When we

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