Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.
Martin HeideggerRead
So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that viewing technology merely as a tool limits our understanding and control over its implications.
Martin Heidegger's quote reflects on the relationship humans have with technology. By conceptualizing technology solely as an instrument for mastery and control, we miss deeper insights into its essence and the influence it has on our lives and society. This perspective can trap us in a mindset focused on domination rather than understanding or coexistence with technology.
In practice
This quote can be used in a lecture on the philosophy of technology.
Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.
Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.
Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.
And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice, virtue, and the common good, will always have men to promote those ends; and that which intends the advancement of one man's desire and vanity, will abound in those that will foment them.
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