Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T18:02:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 arquivo5664_1.pdf: 548303 bytes, checksum: 36de752802f647f20c697db1218c74b2 (MD5) license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Neste trabalho, temos como objetivo analisar a possibilidade de uma bioética a partir da crítica de Heidegger à essência da técnica moderna. Para Heidegger, o desencobrimento técnico (Gestell) como uma posição que dis-põe da natureza no sentido de uma exploração, apresenta uma ameaça constante à essência do homem através do modo pelo qual ele foi desafiado a explorar as energias da natureza. O que se evidencia com tudo isso indica a forma de agir do homem da técnica que, em primeiro lugar, encara e lida com a natureza enquanto um mero sistema operativo e calculável de forças. Nesse sentido, A Questão da Técnica permite pensar o habitar a terra como base para uma bioética originária , que corresponda às dimensões do habitar próprio, em direção a uma morada que é aberta, definida e conservada apenas através da atitude poética enraizada na existência humana em sua totalidade, pois na linguagem poética aparece, de modo privilegiado, o poder-ser originário, o cuidado autêntico e a relação de pertença do homem ao ser

[pt] Em sua obra capital Ser e tempo (1927), o filósofo alemão Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) elaborou o fio condutor do seu pensamento por toda a vida: a questão do sentido do ser (Sein). A penetrante análise da existência humana aí conduzida desvela, tendo como ponto de partida a cotidianidade mediana, os vários modos de ser do ser-aí (Dasein), indicando que a atitude existencialmente autêntica – em meio a uma decadência estruturalmente constitutiva – é propiciada por um reconhecimento e acolhimento da nossa finitude. No decorrer dos anos 1930, sob o influxo da chamada viravolta (Kehre) operada em seu pensamento – processo no qual a ontologia fundamental de Ser e tempo cede lugar à história do Ser (Seyn) –, Heidegger inicia seu movimento de interrogação sobre a técnica, no contexto de sua crescente e impositiva hegemonia, interrogação que desembocará na Gestell ou enquadramento técnico. Trata-se de uma configuração histórica do Ser que visa ao controle e à disponibilização absoluta de todos entes, inclusive dos homens. A Gestell, bem entendido, não se restringe ao universo dos objetos técnicos: é também a emergência de uma maneira tecnológica de ver e habitar o mundo. Este fluxo é de matriz cibernética, marcado, entre outros fenômenos, pelo recente predomínio da virtualização da interação humana, mediada pela onipresente Internet (mais amplamente o ciberespaço). Configura-se assim um novo tipo de convivência, em que virtualidades são utilizadas cotidianamente, influenciando constantemente o comportamento humano, a começar pela comunicação interpessoal e a cognição. O tempo gasto no espaço virtual aponta para uma gradual transformação de hábitos. Destarte, o objetivo da nossa investigação será o de oferecer subsídios preliminares para a elaboração de uma nova analítica do ser-aí, verificando em que medida a cotidianidade mediana, como ser-no-mundo na era da Gestell, é alterada. Isso implica em conduzir uma interpretação dessa nova facticidade na qual, conforme nossa hipótese, a impessoalidade (das Man) consolida o seu poder, consumando o esquecimento do ser através de uma recusa da própria finitude. Valendo-nos da analítica existencial de Ser e tempo e da reflexão heideggeriana sobre a técnica – no seio da qual despontam as noções de proximidade e distância e quadrindade como novos referenciais –, a análise busca desvelar os novos modos de ser da convivência cotidiana virtual, discutindo neste contexto as possibilidades de o ser-aí superar o impessoal e transformar-se em existência autêntica. / [en] In his main work, Being and time (1927), the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) drew up the thread of his lifelong thinking: the question of the meaning of being (Sein). Starting from the average everydayness, the penetrating analysis of human existence conducted here unveils the various modes of being of Dasein, indicating that the existentially authentic attitude – amidst a structurally constitutive decadence – is fostered by a recognition and acceptance of our finitude. During the 1930s, under the influx of the so-called reversal (Kehre) in his thought – a process in which the fundamental ontology of Being and time gives place to the history of Being (Seyn) –, Heidegger begins his interrogation movement on technique, in the context of its growing and imposing hegemony, interrogation that will lead to Gestell or technical enframing. It is a historical configuration of Being that aims at the absolute control and availability of all entities, including men. Gestell, of course, is not restricted to the universe of technical objects: it is also the emergence of a technological way of seeing and inhabiting the world. This flow is of cybernetic matrix, marked, among other phenomena, by the recent predominance of virtualization of human interaction, mediated by the ubiquitous Internet (more broadly: the cyberspace). A new type of being-with-one-another is thus established, in which virtualities are used daily, constantly influencing human behavior, beginning with interpersonal communication and cognition. The time spent in virtual space points to a gradual transformation of habits. Thus, the objective of our investigation will be to offer preliminary subsidies for the elaboration of a new analytic of Dasein, verifying to what extent the average everydayness, as being-in-the-world in the Gestell era, is altered. This implies in conducting an interpretation of this new facticity in which, according to our hypothesis, the They-self (das Man) consolidates its power, consummating the forgottenness of being through a refusal of its own finitude. Drawing on the existential analytic of Being and time and the Heideggerian thinking on the technique – within which the notions of proximity and distance and fourfold emerge as new references –, the analysis seeks to unveil the new ways of being of the virtual everyday being-with-one-another, discussing in this context the possibilities of Dasein overcome the They-self and become authentic existence.

Doctoral dissertation: Media as Space to the Knowledge of World Author: Jana Kuklová ABSTRACT: The present doctoral thesis deals with the question of the media as an epistemological tool. The media close world in presentation and transform the horizon of human existence. The author develops the Flusser's concept of apparatus and of the universe of technical images. This dissertation shows that people use media without understanding them. Person understands himself only as an object of oparation. Media are based on the essence of techniques - Gestell. This thesis introduces the concept of technical space which helps people to understand the scope of the media as a system. The author believes that it is necessary to change our dealings with the media to live in freedom, not the totality. KEYWORDS: Media - Wilém Flusser - apparatus - "Gestell" - Technology - Operation - Coexistence

In my thesis, I examine the relationship between modern technology and human autonomy from the philosophical perspective of Martin Heidegger. He argues that the essence of modern technology is the Gestell. Often translated as ‘enframing,’ the Gestell is a mode of revealing, or understanding, being, in which all beings are revealed as, or understood as, raw materials. By revealing all beings as raw materials, we eventually understand ourselves as raw materials. I argue that this undermines human autonomy, but, unlike Andrew Feenberg, I do not believe this process is irreversible from Heidegger’s perspective. I articulate the meaning of the Gestell as an historical claim and how it challenges human autonomy, but may never absolutely eradicate it. Contra Feenberg’s interpretation, I argue that Heidegger’s ontology, including the Gestell, provides a crucial ground for understanding how we might salvage autonomy in a culture increasingly dominated by modern technology. Specifically, by drawing on Heidegger’s conception of Gelassenheit, I suggest that salvaging human autonomy requires a calm acceptance and opening up to the challenge of modern technology. This is not, as Feenberg suggests, a passive acceptance of the eradication of human autonomy. Rather, this is the ontological ground that provides us with the possibility of salvaging autonomy. By opening us up to the essence of modern technology, we understand the contingency of the Gestell, its essentially ambiguous nature, and are granted with the freedom to subordinate its reign to other human values and modes of understanding being.

ABSTRACT THE GROWING DESERT: NIHILISM AND METAPHYSICS IN HEIDEGGER&rsquo / S THOUGHT Duman, Musa Ph. D., Department of Philosophy Supervisor : Prof. Dr. Ahmet inam March 2009, 209 pages In this study, we explore Heidegger&rsquo / s understanding of nihilism as the essential dimension of metaphysics, of metaphysical experience of Being, and in the following, we address his responses to it. Heidegger takes nihilism as rooted in the metaphysical way of thinking, hence metaphysics and nihilism standing in a primordial identity. Such metaphysical way of thinking as a framework in which Being is experinced and articulated, explicitly or implicitly in all areas of Western culture, from art to science, gives us the deep history or movement of Western tradition. Heidegger considers such movement to be presenting an ever growing threat, indeed as something to be consummated in the eeriest possibility of world history, that is, total destruction of human essence as an openness for the disclosure of Being. He points out to this underlying phenomenon with various designations: forgetfullnesss of Being, abandonment of Being, darkening of the world, Gestell and devestation are some of them. In this tradition, Being, from Plato and Aristotle onwards, becomes nothing at all, that is, excluded from any thoughtful consideration, reduced to a mere abstraction. Anything nihilistic, if fully delved into, would prove to conceal at its heart an alienation to the true sense of Being. Therefore, we need to develop a way of thinking outside the dominion of metaphysics, which should not only discover No-thing as the concealment dimension of Being, thus be deeply open to our finitude, but also learn to respond thoughtfully and thankfully to the gift of Being in, through and towards which we ex-sist as human beings. Vis-a-vis the futural potentials of nihilism in this long end of Western history, the futural character of Heidegger&rsquo / s thinking, his search for a new way of thinking that would incipate the other beginning, harbours a strange Tension that is characteristic of his whole philosophy.

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