The opening section of this work notes that "for centuries philosophy has taught that there are four causes," and claims that "the causa efficiens... sets the standard for all
The opening section of this work notes that "for centuries philosophy has taught that there are four causes," and claims that "the causa efficiens... sets the standard for all causality." This work twice quotes Holderlin to say "But where danger is, grows the saving power also," and once more to remind us that "poetically dwells man upon this earth," linking the poetical to the ekphanestaton of Plato's Phaedrus. According to this work, the essence of the title concept lies in Enframing, and the etymology of the title concept as a term "for the arts of the mind," is explored in connection to the episteme, leading to the statement that the title concept is a mode of revealing. As an example of the titular concept, this essay presents the "monstrousness" of a hydroelectric power plant situated on the Rhine, and it concludes with the statement that because of our preoccupation with the title concept, "we no longer guard and preserve the coming to presence of art." Resulting from a 1953 lecture to the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, for 10 points, identify this Martin Heidegger essay that interrogates the products of modern science.
The opening section of this work notes that "for centuries philosophy has taught that there are four causes," and claims that "the causa efficiens... sets the standard for all causality."
The Question Concerning Technology [or Die Frage nach der Technik]