Being With Technology – Truth, History, Disclosure
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65828/98739976Keywords:
Technology, ordering, controlling, optimising, receptivity, understanding, being, nihilism, truth, history, disclosureAbstract
The aim of this paper is to illuminate a phenomenon that is constitutive of being human, and that is in danger of being lost or forgotten in our current technological age: the phenomenon of being receptive to the world. Some problems and possible solutions to this are highlighted, along with a proposed answer.
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