An Analysis Of Martin Heidegger's Perception Of Society

Obnamia, Edielle Anne S.
4PHL

Chapter two of this thesis would be dedicated to discussing Heidegger’s perception of the society. This is to set a background for the existentialism of Heidegger to be elucidated on the next chapter. It is important to restate the main problem of this thesis, and that is to find the connection between Martin Heidegger and Theodore Kaczynski regarding the problems brought about by technology in the Industrial Society in relation with man, as to reiterate the point that the bulk of this thesis is dedicated with discussing what Heidegger meant by technology, society and man. The point of dedicating a chapter for perception of society of Heidegger is because it is crucial in talking about Dasein and Seindes. The

Mainly the idea of bringing-forth and challenging-forth, will be elucidated. In talking about technology, Heidegger did not actually concern himself about the definition of what technology is for him. He concerned himself with the thought or reasoning behind this technology that is emerging. For Heidegger, technology is just something that is already present and given in our everyday lives, and it is just up to us to discover this. If one is familiar with the term aletheia, it is the same case with technology for Heidegger. In this respect we can infer that for Heidegger, technology comes from nature. There are two ways in which one can utilize the technology innate already in nature. The first one is “Bringing-Forth”, the second one is “Challenging-Forth.
Bringing-forth is the mode in where aletheia takes place. We unconceal what is already present, just cloaked in our vision. As with the case with the jar, though man is the efficient cause of the jar’s existence, the material cause, formal and final cause of the jar, is not from man. And in this mode, all the four causes equally play a vital part, in the making of the thing. One will argue that a jar is not technology, but it is. We just take it for granted, given the more advance technological age that we live

From Heidegger alone we can garner a warning that technology might be harbouring more than just utility, that it may as well be the representation of an unexamined life, an inauthentic life. That is saying a life “human” but not truly human, for we Dasein, socializes with one another, yet not totally relating on the fundamental level with one