Martin Heidegger: the Question Concerning Technology

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  • Martin Heidegger undertakes and examines the most relevant and serious questions surrounding technology: What is technology? What is the direct impact made on 20th century, post-industrial life? Heidegger sets out to answer these questions, with the beginning of his essay set to explore the essence and fundamental being of technology.
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    Philosophize This! • Episode #101 ... Heide...
    Time:
    Intro: 0:00
    Essence of Technology: 2:54
    Standing Reserve: 7:10
    Poiesis of Past and Present: 11:20
    Modern Implications: 12:20
    Ending Message: 15:41

КОМЕНТАРІ • 286

  • @epochphilosophy
    @epochphilosophy  3 роки тому +84

    Hey, all! Just wanted to say thanks again for watching and stopping by! As always, this channel is so small, any like subscribe, share or comment helps put the algorithm in our favor! Heidegger's essay on the Question Concerning Technology is one of my favorite pieces, and was an absolute pleasure making (albeit a difficult one at that.) Feel free to follow and check out the stream on Twitch, and follow me on Twitter and Instagram for more content!

    • @yalelaw
      @yalelaw 3 роки тому

      amazing video an

    • @julia5459
      @julia5459 2 роки тому

      tysm! You helped me with my philo class

    • @rubencaspary3621
      @rubencaspary3621 2 місяці тому

      @epochphilosophy or also ‘Biophysik’ Biotech & future

  • @DH-oj2ru
    @DH-oj2ru Рік тому +88

    He was far, FAR, ahead of his time. Most people I know today would not even have the atrention span to make it through this video, much less the actual books. The world needs Heidegger more than ever, thats for sure. Great analysis friend.

    • @rl7012
      @rl7012 11 місяців тому

      Far from it. He is a very mediocre blah word salad nazi atheist.

    • @thethethe814
      @thethethe814 8 місяців тому +2

      Actually the muslims were farther. Much, much, farther. They were the actual first critics and skeptics of modern technology as they understood its rational conclusions and endless danger from the invention of the printing press alone. It's quite paradigm-shifting. I invite you and the world to look into Islam. The keys to true skepticism and foreseeing the invisible evils of the world are in it.

    • @thetruth4654
      @thetruth4654 8 місяців тому +4

      @@thethethe814 lol i`ll pass, if i want to seek ancient wisdom, there are so many better places to go then Islam.

    • @thethethe814
      @thethethe814 8 місяців тому

      ​@@thetruth4654 You may think that, if your intention is seeking ancient wisdom.
      However, if you could upgrade it to seeking Timeless Wisdom then you may start thinking otherwise, and you may also understand the power of the context from which my mentioning of Islam raised which is about Muslims being ahead of everyone when it comes to sharp technology skepticism, which is also definitely not a so ancient thing by any measure as far as i'm concerned. So this needs a paradigm-shift as I noted in my first comment which is certainly tough, but assuming from your username your will to Truth should be tougher insha'Allah (God Willing).

    • @Consciousness_of_Reality
      @Consciousness_of_Reality 8 місяців тому

      ​@@thethethe814But then the problem of islam and any other religion or philosophy is that they propose a mentality of conflict driven by morals, imperatives are aways dangerous, because proposing How the world should be and people should behave is dangerous and only replace an opression with another one.
      The problem in this video isnt technology itself, but what it represents, and we have this "problem" because we demand that the world should be X, instead of recognizing that the world shoudnt be anything.

  • @mylesjeffers6148
    @mylesjeffers6148 3 роки тому +46

    Love how accessible you're making Heidegger. I think his ideas were super important so you're doing a great service to humanity.

    • @quagapp
      @quagapp 4 місяці тому +1

      Heidegger like some philosophers is necessarily "difficult"....he spends a lot of Being and Time defining and even inventing terms...he is struggling to talk about something in a new way, and he digs into Aristotle, Plato, even Descartes...He would have been aware of Kant et al and of course Nietzsche. Nietzsche can be "difficult" also, but he uses "connected aphorisms" say in Beyond Good and Evil...really he means 'apart from the standard naive qualifications of these things, N is not advocating Nihilism". N is less of an 'ontologist' or metaphysician that Husserl or Heidegger...Russell fails to see a possible connection via N to Schopehauer and even Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein for me though, is about what cant be said, he questions and questions...in a sense as Socrates supposedly did (via Plato).....I think Heidegger, like Marx, sees the effect of modern 'alienation' and so on...But one cant avoid reading these guys....I am trying to find my way via Nietzsche (even read works by Rousseau, esp. his essays and also his superb 'Confessions'). All possibly to look at Derrida but it is true these philosophers are not easy.

  • @OmarGarcia-bj9by
    @OmarGarcia-bj9by 3 роки тому +60

    Being a small creator trying to educate the masses is a tough job. Moreover, describing intricate material in a palatable way is no easy feat. Thank you for taking the time to really break down Heidegger's essay and diving deep into the intricacies of his work! I'm excited to see your future content!

  • @stephaniemacabinlar
    @stephaniemacabinlar 6 місяців тому +3

    Here because I am going to present Heidegger's philosophical analysis about technology, in front of my classmates and professor. Hope it goes well, wish me luck.

  • @westernwatercress
    @westernwatercress 3 роки тому +76

    Thank you for your interpretation and explanation! I'm sure it was difficult to make it so accessible, but I think you did a stand up job!

    • @epochphilosophy
      @epochphilosophy  3 роки тому +4

      Incredibly happy I could provide. Thanks so much for the comment.

  • @ScHp0nGl3d
    @ScHp0nGl3d 3 роки тому +17

    Deeply profound and so important. Thank you for deciphering Heideigger so well!

  • @luffie867
    @luffie867 2 роки тому +14

    Thanks, I really had hard time understanding his philosophy no matter how much I read😭 but you amazingly made it easier to understand and provided a good insight, too❤️

  • @pijjj5742
    @pijjj5742 3 роки тому +7

    This channel is so underrated wow

  • @nikuman8058
    @nikuman8058 3 роки тому +8

    My thanks for putting these out here, it's been wonderful revisiting ideas with you

  • @johlibeee2660
    @johlibeee2660 3 роки тому +30

    This is the simplest explanation of The Question Concerning Technology ever! At first, I was really just trying to learn the whole thing for the sake of a test, but now that I understood it through this amazing video of yours, I began to see it's relevance to not just my course, but to the world as well.
    A huge thanks to you, Sir!

    • @epochphilosophy
      @epochphilosophy  3 роки тому +1

      Super happy to hear this! Glad you enjoyed!

    • @adaptercrash
      @adaptercrash Рік тому

      It was supposed to be written before being and time, and I just leave the question of meaning of being on to reverse it to the other as a horizon for pathological psychology. He is being literal, hammers, pens, paper.

  • @daseinoseven4514
    @daseinoseven4514 3 роки тому +3

    Great video, Sir. As a huge fan of Heidegger for nearly half of my life, I truly enjoy seeing these videos come into view. Thank you!!!

  • @commenthismofo
    @commenthismofo Рік тому +10

    Zero comments? Amazing. Let me be the first, then, to congratulate you on a well-researched and communicated video. I am in the midst of writing an essay as part of my Ph.D. and I am considering using a bit of good ol' Heidegger. Thank you for this!

    • @TK_Velvet
      @TK_Velvet Рік тому +1

      really though. how is there zero comments lol. Best of luck on your essay.

    • @mjolninja9358
      @mjolninja9358 Рік тому

      @@TK_Velvet it’s also the same with his other videos, it used to have comments then I just saw 1 or 2

  • @dch5463
    @dch5463 Місяць тому

    Been searching through lots of online video resources on Heidegger. I really rate this one very, very highly. I've subscribed and will be dipping in regularly. Thank you Epoch!

  • @SomeLoser911
    @SomeLoser911 3 роки тому +6

    This is my first time hearing these ideas. Absolutely fascinating.

  • @Megaghost_
    @Megaghost_ 3 роки тому +8

    I've just found your channel, great content! You are good at explaining something so hard as Heidegger. Thanks!

  • @ericcunningham5190
    @ericcunningham5190 3 роки тому +5

    Thank you so much for making this. I am in the process of published a Bioethics piece where I utilize this part of Heidegger's philosophy and extend it to biotechnology. One of the reviewers had a big problem with it, and i started to doubt whether I was using Heidegger correctly. Your video helped to solidify my reasoning for using it.

  • @KJ-vc3sw
    @KJ-vc3sw Рік тому

    This is one of the most beautiful, and most important, essays I have ever read. It takes a lot of work, but boy is it worth it.
    Thank you for putting this together. You did a very fine job. I found it helpful.

  • @drewdominiesalazar7806
    @drewdominiesalazar7806 3 роки тому +3

    finally, I found someone who was able to explain Heidegger's philosophy towards technology in terms that was easy to understand! thanks for sharing your thoughts with us! I am subscribing :)))

  • @leahwestberg9767
    @leahwestberg9767 Рік тому +1

    i genuinely really enjoyed your video. it was very insightful yet easy to follow. thank you so much

  • @skayns1631
    @skayns1631 Рік тому +2

    you are amazing sir, you deliver the message so good that I really understand it.

  • @snakespeak
    @snakespeak Рік тому

    Thank you! I wish I had seen this earlier. I have struggled with Heidegger but recognized his importance.

  • @adt3030
    @adt3030 2 роки тому +1

    thanks for this. it comforts me to know others made a stand for the importance of man's relation to nature in the past but I become anxious knowing we have yet to change as we blast into the future

  • @Manuka_888
    @Manuka_888 Рік тому

    Great. The effort you make on your videos is appreciated. I get a lot out of them.

  • @bayleehough6558
    @bayleehough6558 3 роки тому +4

    Thank you so much for this video! I have to write a paper relating Heidegger's claim that the essence of technology is nothing technological to the film Castle in the Sky and this really helped me break down 'The Question Concerning Technology.' Keep up the great work!

    • @MarioChilaq
      @MarioChilaq 2 роки тому +3

      Love that movie and of course! 100 percent related to what is explained in this video. I want to watch it again under this lens

  • @MesiterSode
    @MesiterSode 3 роки тому +23

    "All necessary *resources* and citations in the description!"
    clever

  • @brantyrion5630
    @brantyrion5630 Рік тому +1

    This helped me so much! Thank you very much! Subscribed.

  • @RishadAhmedCoaching
    @RishadAhmedCoaching 5 місяців тому +2

    You've done an impeccable job communicating a deeply profound message in the most digestible manner. Well done to you!

  • @Mr-.Facts.
    @Mr-.Facts. Рік тому

    This was so good. I've watched the first part as well. It must be so difficult to explain something like this. Amazing

  • @christinemartin63
    @christinemartin63 10 місяців тому

    My second lecture....I'm hooked! Terrific explanations of complex, abstract concepts. (I just subscribed.)

  • @markanthonymuya6258
    @markanthonymuya6258 3 роки тому +1

    Lovely unbiased sharing that takes up the major points.

  • @kuchuksary
    @kuchuksary 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you sooo much!!! This video is helping me a lot to write an essay

  • @marqpsmythe228
    @marqpsmythe228 3 роки тому +2

    Thank you, with your guidance, I’ll have another go at Being and Time, etc.

    • @epochphilosophy
      @epochphilosophy  3 роки тому

      Hopefully, this makes your reading a bit easier!

  • @smtpbay5697
    @smtpbay5697 2 місяці тому

    Excellent video, really helpful, thanks for posting

  • @MarcelCramer
    @MarcelCramer 4 дні тому

    This man ... The link between the development of atomic weapons and doing the same to people (manipulating organic beings) is so clear in his mind. You can sense it in the way he says it. Luckily I understand and speak German myself which gives an extra understanding of the way he speaks the words. Great to see this clip.

  • @nina793
    @nina793 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you, your explaination is very clear and beautiful 🙏

  • @mjolninja9358
    @mjolninja9358 3 роки тому

    Beautifully presented man! I’m looking forward to more content from you

  • @johnelrickpelayo2393
    @johnelrickpelayo2393 8 місяців тому

    This video is very helpful! I had a hard time reading the materials but with yours I was able to understand it clearly. :D

  • @shehzadnoor9907
    @shehzadnoor9907 3 роки тому +1

    Heidegger on Technology was wonderfully put together.
    If i can make a request, please make video on "Last god and new beginning or Anfag" of Heidegger as that points to what awaits us in the future.

  • @punkindhouse08
    @punkindhouse08 2 роки тому +3

    A key highlight of the video is your application of Heidegger's ideas in the essay toward its real-world implications, so thank you. However, although Heidegger himself spends a brief time exploring it in the final sections of the essay, it would have been interesting to see you cover his re-institution of art into his inquiry into technology (i.e. this framework he posits of the 'technē'). Although he doesn't directly proclaim art as a kind of salvation towards 'revealing,' the most potent aspect of the claim is that by considering art within the relational properties you mention in the video, it creates not just a new lease on considering the essence of technology, but also a newfound lease on questioning the 'mystery' (as he calls it) of art itself, and thus of ourselves (Being).

  • @cheddacheese8900
    @cheddacheese8900 3 роки тому +8

    this is so much better than any of my professors lectures... why am i paying tuition for that

    • @Green-pq2jk
      @Green-pq2jk 3 роки тому

      im literally teaching myself this year, just needed a book, couple free videos and a few tests, dont even know why im paying so much some useless teachers

  • @mnixx0254
    @mnixx0254 2 роки тому

    THANK YOU FOR THIS. THIS IS ENLIGHTENING

  • @riversiderocks
    @riversiderocks 6 місяців тому

    Incredibly well made video with a great tie in to the modern world. Thank you.

  • @PhilosophyOnIce
    @PhilosophyOnIce 3 роки тому +17

    Awesome. Big fan of Heidegger's ideas; this gives a good insight into some of his more difficult to read ones (all of them).

  • @zzzaaayyynnn
    @zzzaaayyynnn 2 роки тому

    great job of communicating very difficult ideas while not oversimplifying or misleading

  • @kore1908
    @kore1908 2 роки тому +1

    thank you so much for this. we are to write a critique paper about this and i could not understand a single thing from his essay

  • @aprole87
    @aprole87 3 роки тому +2

    Loving your videos so far!

  • @JordanJordanovich
    @JordanJordanovich 2 роки тому +1

    Excellent lecture! Brilliant!

  • @VladimirPercela
    @VladimirPercela 6 місяців тому +1

    I love your work

  • @benitobenitez5975
    @benitobenitez5975 Рік тому

    thank you ! not a huge heidegger fan but I enjoy his ideas of technology and art,

  • @gedde5703
    @gedde5703 3 роки тому +1

    This channel is amazing.

  • @pijjj5742
    @pijjj5742 3 роки тому

    Great video! Really helped summarise everything from his essay

  • @MultiSilva99
    @MultiSilva99 3 роки тому

    You should do a video about Heidegger's essay on the origin of the work of art!!
    Great content, cheers mate

  • @eternalblue4660
    @eternalblue4660 3 роки тому +2

    Great video, was excited for this one.

    • @epochphilosophy
      @epochphilosophy  3 роки тому +1

      Thank you so much! I was as well. This was actually the video I was most excited for regarding Heidegger and wanted to release this first. But, covering Being and Time first made more sense.

    • @eternalblue4660
      @eternalblue4660 3 роки тому

      @@epochphilosophy Yeah I'm currently reading Being and Time when I can after work and it's pretty good so far. Despite the concepts being difficult to conceptually understand on first glance I feel as if he made it the simplest he possibly could. I'm understanding more than I thought though, or atleast I think I am ahaha. I'll never know if I'm internalizing it correctly until I refer to some other secondary sources on it all.

  • @Knaeben
    @Knaeben 2 роки тому +1

    I like how the narrator has a soothing voice, and I especially like how he doesn't talk down to the viewer.

  • @akashm8307
    @akashm8307 3 роки тому

    Thank you so much for this video on QCT.

  • @jensekbom4109
    @jensekbom4109 3 роки тому

    Completely amazing work. Thank you

  • @gg_2377
    @gg_2377 Рік тому

    amazing video. thank you for this!

  • @desirel
    @desirel 2 роки тому

    Thank you so much!

  • @salazarchristophera.6825
    @salazarchristophera.6825 Рік тому

    thanks for further explanation

  • @eugenezamalamillogomonit151

    THANK YOU!

  • @kenillla
    @kenillla 3 роки тому +2

    So good, your channel will blow up

    • @epochphilosophy
      @epochphilosophy  3 роки тому +1

      Thanks so much friend, have something important coming up soon!

  • @LogicGated
    @LogicGated 2 роки тому

    Great follow up to the first vid!

  • @samuelthesinistercastaneda6200
    @samuelthesinistercastaneda6200 3 роки тому +4

    THANK YOU FOR CREATING THIS VIDEO. Our teacher Gave us a Summative Assessment that require us to make video of our self summarizing the article concerning technology and what lifestyle changes I can adopt about this article.

  • @SP-ny1fk
    @SP-ny1fk 3 роки тому +56

    One way of considering technology is through the myth of Pandora's Box. Once technology is released, it can never be re-boxed. Or perhaps through the myth of the Garden of Eden and the loss of unity brought upon by knowledge, and the casting out from the garden, which is then guarded by a flaming sword.
    We can see that these things were understood in their essence (metaphysically) and represented symbolically throughout the ages.
    We have lost the ability to think symbolically, because of technology - which has removed and outsourced our inner potential to the service of production.

    • @epochphilosophy
      @epochphilosophy  3 роки тому +8

      This is a great point.

    • @shaggystone6397
      @shaggystone6397 3 роки тому +1

      Cool vid man have to watch it 20 time tho. Love being& time where Sartre got all his ideas. Oh yes he did.

    • @beingsshepherd
      @beingsshepherd 3 роки тому

      We no longer use metaphors?

    • @SP-ny1fk
      @SP-ny1fk 3 роки тому +1

      @@beingsshepherd We no longer understand symbols as they pertain to ourselves - ie as mirrors

    • @beingsshepherd
      @beingsshepherd 3 роки тому +3

      ​@@SP-ny1fk Forgive me, are you saying that ... modern technology has oriented the common mind to function so directly and literally perhaps, that the mental faculties required for apprehending allegorical wisdom, have been forsaken to incapacity?

  • @alainamp
    @alainamp 2 роки тому

    Excellent work!

  • @fierypickles4450
    @fierypickles4450 2 роки тому +1

    absolutely stellar video, this really opened my eyes and contextualized my angst towards my internet addiction. and in the greater scheme the parts about arbitrarily corp. turning people into productive commodities. its all really striking. it reminds me of the message of the movie princess mononoke. if you haven't seen it, you should.

  • @augustas8374
    @augustas8374 3 роки тому +1

    Fantastic video.

  • @timquigley986
    @timquigley986 3 роки тому

    Great video. Really appreciate it

  • @ramia1289
    @ramia1289 2 роки тому

    Just love this man

  • @MarcoGalliafr
    @MarcoGalliafr Рік тому

    Great video by the way!

  • @timquigley986
    @timquigley986 3 роки тому +1

    Awesome video. Keep it up

  • @itssanti
    @itssanti 2 роки тому +2

    I see Kant in this, a lot.
    That deep Kant's philosophy is.

  • @geeanndelacruz1775
    @geeanndelacruz1775 2 роки тому

    Thank you so much

  • @ouafaehanyny7363
    @ouafaehanyny7363 2 роки тому

    Thank you so much that was soo helpful

  • @caleb--
    @caleb-- 10 місяців тому

    This is a lovely video well done.

  • @Noirlax
    @Noirlax 2 роки тому +4

    Thanks! That was a nice introduction and that was quite accessible. I think the concept of Enframing was lacking in this video. Enframing probably would have made the video more difficult to understand though. I'm no expert but my understanding is Standing Reserve means more than resource because Heidegger's critique of modern technology is our understanding of the world is enframed and controlled by models such as mathematical/scientific models. So one of the dangers is the world becomes just measurable quantities or variables in a model or equation and data science/AI is probably going to make it even more dangerous. Subscribed!

  • @DoubtingThomas213
    @DoubtingThomas213 11 місяців тому

    Thanks!

  • @derekguerrero8104
    @derekguerrero8104 3 роки тому +1

    oh gosh! this is very helpful to me.

  • @tystromberg5288
    @tystromberg5288 3 роки тому +1

    Ultimately, a pretty good video

  • @andikadimasprasetyo5758
    @andikadimasprasetyo5758 Рік тому +2

    Heidegger's "The Question Concerning Technology" was jarringly insightful, given what see happening in our world of "modern technology" today. We have clearly reached, or are rapidly approaching, the negative extreme of his thesis. The modern technologies we celebrate today - including, or even especially, management technologies - exist almost exclusively for his "enframing" idea, and subsequently for the domination of nature and humanity. And the "freedom" (in Heidegger's sense of the word)of things, beasts, and humans consequently has been eviscerated. It's a pity that few people, especially those in power and authority, pay much attention to philosophers, especially great and insightful ones.

  • @joshedwards6209
    @joshedwards6209 Рік тому

    I greatly appreciate you

  • @NuttyNeil76
    @NuttyNeil76 Рік тому

    Amazing video, thankyou

  • @Leila20299
    @Leila20299 8 днів тому

    I'm here for homework, I don't have the attention span to read Heidegger's articles, thus, thx for this vid!

  • @yorkbautista4487
    @yorkbautista4487 3 роки тому +1

    Great. Thank you for making this video.
    #STS

  • @mator2339
    @mator2339 3 роки тому +1

    Great work bro.

    • @epochphilosophy
      @epochphilosophy  3 роки тому

      Thanks so much!

    • @mator2339
      @mator2339 3 роки тому

      @@epochphilosophy I suggest you take up Wittgenstein one day, especially the early Wittgenstein, if it ain't out your domain of intrest.

  • @Pass____over
    @Pass____over 2 роки тому

    Blew my mind

  • @jahaseljhimsvillamor2107
    @jahaseljhimsvillamor2107 Рік тому

    Thank you

  • @ReclusiveAsta
    @ReclusiveAsta 11 місяців тому

    Excellent explanation of Heideggerian thought. It seems as though the corporatism phenomenon has kicked into overdrive recently and I'm really get the sense of a being treated like a non-being.
    This video is a good source to refer back to, thank you.

  • @natedaug1
    @natedaug1 Рік тому

    Great video.

  • @MarcelCramer
    @MarcelCramer 4 дні тому

    'die Befindlichkeit' is so much more. Some things you have to feel from the language experience up close. Its the same for 'das Dasein'. German words carry more 'aura' with them than my own Dutch or English in my opinion.

  • @krishnapartha
    @krishnapartha 2 роки тому +4

    Brother you are doing excellent work. Have you ever compared this to the philosophy of Vedanta?

    • @epochphilosophy
      @epochphilosophy  2 роки тому

      Thanks, friend. I have not! Although eastern/Hindu philosophy doesn't seem too far off or alien to Heidegger. At least on the surface.

  • @alwysgreen1781
    @alwysgreen1781 Рік тому

    Amazing video

  • @annikamontaner706
    @annikamontaner706 3 роки тому

    this is ULTIMATELY the best video about the question concerning technology 🤩

  • @danielrobertson4811
    @danielrobertson4811 2 роки тому +2

    Heidegger stole all my ideas that I didn’t have yet

  • @ebok5705
    @ebok5705 3 роки тому +4

    You just saved me from my philosophy teacher holy sht the text is so hard to read

  • @MarcoGalliafr
    @MarcoGalliafr Рік тому

    Where is the third part of this video series? I need it

  • @dch5463
    @dch5463 Місяць тому

    Thanks

  • @MGHOoL5
    @MGHOoL5 3 роки тому +2

    Why did I just find out about this channel?! Gorgeous!

  • @andikadimasprasetyo5758
    @andikadimasprasetyo5758 2 роки тому

    Hi, can you provide the full link for the first video?