Talk:The Question Concerning Technology

message: Heidegger never in fact mentions a "water wheel" in the essay.  He does contrast modern power generation with a "windmill", however, so I have edited accordingly. 18.85.23.189 (talk) 15:44, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest a section concerning Heidegger's essay The Turning from the same volume be added to this entry. It elucidates many of the issues in The Question Concerning Technology. Also some secondary sources might be helpful, which shouldn't be hard to find. Perhaps the rating should be changed to be of higher importance, because this book is influential and frequently studied to the best of my knowledge. --68.3.68.102 (talk) 19:15, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

text: I concur. This article not only needs a rewrite to make it more encyclopedic, but also in terms of correcting it's content. As it is, it's interpretation of Heidegger is wildly inaccurate. Cuthalion1 (talk) 18:52, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm removing large quantities of original research from the article, as agreed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Question Concerning Technology. Concerned editors should feel free to build up the article using reliable secondary sources. - LuckyLouie (talk) 14:47, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  May 2013 

message: A hazard of writing about Heidegger, but this article is incoherent to anyone who doesn't speak Heideggerian. I can't imagine anyone who hasn't already intensively studied Heidegger reading this article and thinking, "Oh, I get it." 70.83.138.182 (talk) 11:22, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is gobbledygook  

message: I think we should refer to this Wiki article here and probably also in the main page for Heidegger:  commodification of nature.  --David Tornheim (talk) 18:10, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  commodification of nature 

message: Hello, I've found the French version of this article https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidegger_et_la_question_de_la_technique and it isn't linked. I'm not sure how to do it unfortunately. Perhaps there are other language versions which are not linked? --146.162.241.244 (talk) 11:20, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to French version 

message: An analysis of the part on free relationship 
. . . the relationship between humans and technology, a relationship Heidegger calls a "free relationship".
The relation between human existence and technology is not “a relationship[that]
Heidegger calls a "free relationship". A free relationship is constitutive of any human existence’s  relation to the revealed essence (truth) of any being. If the The Greek  the word  for revealing is  aletheia, Then (to quote Heidegger) “Only the true brings us into a free relationship with that which concerns us from out of its essence”. Thus a free relation is not limited to technology, it includes any comportment that relates to the essence of a being (meaning all modes of human  comportment)
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If this relationship is free, it "opens our human existence to the essence of technology"'''
Human existence does not at the outset posses a free or unfree relation to technology. It is only through the question concerning technology itself that “we should like to prepare a  free relationship to it”(1)
Thus, The Question Concerning Technology hopes  “to uncover the thing in question in its essence or truth”(6), for the  relationship will be free “if it opens our human existence to the essence of technology”(1). As even quoted by the editor “According to Heidegger, it is necessary to find truth, for "only the true brings us into a free relationship with that which concerns us from its essence".  
 This truth is sought "by the way of the correct".[4]
Big lacuna
what is the correct and how is it different from the true and how can you get from the correct to the true
Heidegger examines two definitions of technology. Firstly, he offers that "technology is a means to an end".[4] . . . these definitions, however, have to do with technology, not with the essence of technology.[6] 
 
Heidegger does not offer nor propose any definitions he rather takes the all known that “Everyone knows the two statements that answer our question”
The relationship between humans and technology is dependent on the notion of instrumentality. 
Why and how? 
Διοτιμα (talk) 13:49, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free relationship  

message: Διοτιμα has twice edited the lead of the article in a way that introduces incorrect grammar. See here and here. The second of those two edits was made despite the fact that I had already explained that the grammar of the change was incorrect. Since Διοτιμα saw fit to make the same incorrect change twice, I reproduce a relevant discussion from my talk page below. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 04:48, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar