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The Residue of Anthropocentrism in Heidegger’s Question after Technic

Year 2018, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 427 - 440, 30.12.2018
https://doi.org/10.18491/beytulhikme.507791

Abstract

In his text, The Question Concerning
Technology, Heidegger argues that modern mind is unaware of Being’s
self-destining which determines Dasein’s relation to their own essence and that
of other beings because it is in a delusion of being an ‘efficient cause’. A
bluntness of this kind not only endangers human-freedom but also puts natural
entities at the risk of losing their authenticity since the modern mode of
production regards nature as a reserve that is constantly in the service of
human-doings. Accordingly, the discussion carried out in this article is,
despite his criticism of the conception of ‘agency’ underlying western
metaphysics, whether or not Heidegger overcomes the problem of anthropocentrism
in his own philosophy.

References

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Year 2018, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 427 - 440, 30.12.2018
https://doi.org/10.18491/beytulhikme.507791

Abstract

References

  • Brogan, W. A. (2007). The Intractable Interrelationship of Physis and Techne in Heidegger's Philosophy. Heidegger and the Greeks. (Eds. D. A. Hyland & J. P. Manoussakis). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 43-56.
  • Cicero, M. T. (1886). Book V. Virtue Sufficient for Happiness. Tusculan Disputa-tions. (Trans. A. P. Peabody). Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 251-322.
  • Heidegger, M. (1962). Die Technik und die Kehre. Stuttgart: Verlag Günther Neske, 5-36.
  • Heidegger, M. (1993). The Question Concerning Technology. (Trans. W. Lovitt). Basic Writings. New York: Harper Collins, 311-41.
  • Heidegger, M. (1996). Being and Time. (Trans. J. Stambaugh). Albany: State Uni-versity of New York Press, 83-94.
  • Heidegger, M. (1998). On the Essence and the Concept of Φύσις in Aristotle’s Physics B, I. Pathmarks. (Ed. W. McNeil). The UK: Cambridge University Press, 183-230.
  • Ruin, H. (2010). Ge-stell: Enframing as the Essence of technology. Martin Heidegger Key Concepts. (Ed. B. W. Davis). UK: Acumen Publishing, 183-93.
  • Zimmerman, M. E. (1990). Heidegger’s Confrontation with Modernity Technology, Politics, and Art. The USA: Indiana University Press.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Philosophy
Journal Section Articles
Authors

İbrahim Okan Akkın

Publication Date December 30, 2018
Published in Issue Year 2018 Volume: 8 Issue: 2

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APA Akkın, İ. O. (2018). The Residue of Anthropocentrism in Heidegger’s Question after Technic. Beytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy, 8(2), 427-440. https://doi.org/10.18491/beytulhikme.507791