The Question Concerning Technology

1 The Question Concerning TechnologyMARTIN HEIDEGGERS ource: The Question Concerning Technology (1977), pp 3 35In what follows we shall be questioningconcerning Technology . Questioningbuilds a way. We would be advised, therefore, above all to pay heed to theway, and not to fix our attention on isolated sentences and topics. The wayis a way of thinking. All ways of thinking, more or less perceptibly, leadthrough language in a manner that is extraordinary. We shall be questioningconcerning Technology , and in so doing we should like to prepare a free rela-tionship to it. The relationship will be free if it opens our human existence tothe essence of we can respond to this essence, we shall beable to experience the technological within its own is not equivalent to the essence of Technology . When we areseeking the essence of tree, we have to become aware that That which per-vades every tree, as tree, is not itself a tree that can be encountered among allthe other , the essence of Technology is by no means anything we shall never experience our relationship to the essence of Technology solong as we merely conceive and push forward the technological, put up with it,or evade it.

We ask the question concerning technology when we ask what it is. Everyone knows the two statements that answer our question. One says: Technology is a means to an end. The other says: Technology is a human activity. The two definitions of technology belong together. For to posit ends and procure and utilize the means to them is a human activity.

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