CHAPTER 4: Technology as a Way of Revealing

Edgar Menor, RPh.

Isabela State University – Cauayan Campus
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Explain the concept of human condition before science and technology

• Identify the change that happened in human condition after science and technology.
• Name ways on how technology aided in revealing the truth about the human being.
• Analyze the human condition in order to deeply reflect and express philosophical ramifications
that are meaningful to the student as a part of society.
LEARNING CONTENT
Generation Gap

• Is attributed mainly to the changes brought about by technology.

• The main idea why technology progresses are to help everyone in their daily living,
there are still individuals who are not comfortable in using various types of
technological products.
• Especially among some of those who belong to the older generation.
• They have been used to the simple living in the past and these available technological
devices, though very appealing are a difficult puzzle to them.
LEARNING CONTENT

 Why do you think the older generation are not comfortable in using new
products?
They think that these technologies are too complicated to operate.

• These should not be a major worrisome on technological advancement

instead, a challenge to everyone especially the younger generation to take the
older generation to an exciting journey in science and technology.

• Everyone can experience what it is like to live with ease and comfort.
 LESSON 1.
The Human Condition Before the Common Era

• Discoveries and massive invention for community development started with

increased needs of human beings.
• It is difficult to determine what specific period of which technology has started
but through the notion of humans to make life easier that technology and
advancement begin to rise.
• Primal period, basic technology has been evident.
• Homo erectus began to use fire to cook through friction and heat.
• Homo sapiens during the Stone Age sharpen stones to make knife (also wedge).
• The culture and way of living of the earliest people was conceived through
drawings and carvings inside caves and unearthed artifacts from various parts of
the world.
The Human Condition Before the Common Era

• Metals have substances that are more durable, malleable and have more luster
than the previous material.
• Terms of clothing, fur and animal skin were used primarily to withstand extreme
weather conditions.
• Our ancestors were also inclined with the liking of a shiny stone or perfectly
shaped bone as a trophy to proudly show off their hunt.
• Archaeologist and anthropologists had excavated several figures thought to be
from the latter Stone Age period that are for ceremonial purposes. These figures
mean that the people of that time perhaps use these to honor some deity.
The Human Condition Before the Common Era

• Different tribes has different honored or primitive gods.

• Ex: People in the mountains honor gods for bountiful hunt while those in the
coastal areas have water gods to bless them with good catch.
• Prior civilizations shared the sun as their generic god.
• Our ancestors also found the need to explain things in a way that makes sense
to them.
• These events are outside of their control and they also believe that it is a
work of supernatural being has been their commonly used justification to
explain these things.
LESSON 2. The Human Condition in the Common Era

• The earliest date of human extinction occurred over 12, 000 years ago possibly due to hunting
and territorial disputes and natural disasters.
• The “sixth extinction” or the Halocene extinction (anthropocene extinction) or in engish
“entirely recent” it occurred from as early as between 100, 000 to 200, 000 years up to the
present.
• The extinction of several species both flora and fauna is on-going and increasing due to
human activity.
• Increasing number of communities had forced humans to expand more on territory hence
more people to feed.
• In the early days people in different tribes expand their territories but they don’t want to
shed some blood.
• This is where the trade and barter paving the way to crosstown and cross-cultural
interactions as more products were exchanged.
• As time goes by, humanity became more complex and the primary goal was not only to
survive but to live a good life.
The Human Condition in the Common Era

In searching for a good life, technology has been largely instrumental.

• People were able to develop ways to have easier, more comfortable and more
enriching life.
• Medicines has been apparently given notice including alchemy of which people
tend to be fixated with gold and the adamant to procure more and trying to
use the element lead to produce more gold.
• This paved way to the emergence of the earliest forms of chemistry in its
primitive form not quite distinct to alchemy.
The Human Condition in the Common Era

• With time and continuous increased of communities and different races,

beliefs, and abundance of territory/ resources, wars are being waged
therefore, communities also include allocation of their resources to organizing
their armed forces.
• The early leaders are supposed to be those who portrayed exceptional
strength in the group and still carried on for many generations. It was valued
most the physical strength of a human being but there are also many figures
that are intellectually gifted.
• These innovators were primarily the ones behind discoveries and triumphs of
these civilizations.
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