OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR COLLEGE-CAUAYAN

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

MIDTERM

ACTIVITY 1

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Part-1

1. In your own words, explain the role or contribution of Martin Heidegger in the topic
Technology as a away of revealing (5 pts)

First, the essence of technology is not something we make; it is a mode of being, or of revealing.
This means that technological things have their own novel kind of presence, endurance, and connections
among parts and wholes. They have their own way of presenting themselves and the world in which
they operate. The technology has different kinds of things they can do.

2. Explain the following terms and how they are related with each other (25)

a. Bringing Forth
- Refers to the human ability to make and perform. Also encompassess the knowledge
and understanding.

b. Challenging forth
- it reduces objects as standing reserve or something to be disposed of by those who can
enframe them humans.

c. Poesis
- refers to the act of bringing something out of concealment.

d. Aletheia
- translated as unclosedness, unconcealedness, disclosure or truth.

e. Enframing
- way of ordering nature to better manipulate it.

f. Calculative thinking
- more technical kind of human thought in which people gather information and put it
together in order to put it to some specific use.
 g. Meditative thinking

- It means to notice, to observe, to ponder, to awaken an awareness of what is actually

taking place around us and in us. Meditative thinking does not mean being detached from reality

THEY ARE ALL PART OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER IN THE TOPIC TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF LIVING

Part-II

1. Explain the-development in your own words. (5 points)

- The act or process of growing or causing something to grow or become larger or more
advanced. It is an act of creating something over a period of time. Also it is making
something more advanced.

2. What does Jason Hickel wanted to say when he said “Forget “developing “ poor countries,
it’s time to de-develop rich countries (10 points)

- Growth isn’t an option any more, we’ve already grown too much. The hard truth is that
this global crisis is due almost entirely to overconsumption in rich countries. The idea of
“de-developing” rich countries might prove to be a strong rallying cry in the global
south, but it will be tricky to sell to westerners. Tricky, but not impossible.

3. How does Peter Edwards’ idea differs from Jason Hickel idea when we talk of De-
development (15 points)

- According to Hickel, the focus on aid as a tool for international development depoliticized
poverty and misleads people into believing that rich countries are benevolent toward poorer
countries. In reality, he says, financial flows from rich countries to poor countries are
outstripped by flows that go in the opposite direction, including external debt service. While
Peter Edward says end poverty.