Digested Summary of QT

I originally intended this to be a reorganized outline of QT, but it came out sort of like a brief summary. I've been thinking on it for a while so maybe that's appropriate. Next up, a list of Heideggerian vocab definitons, which I so liberally use in this summary.

Technology is not essentially an instrument of human beings (a means). Essentially it is a way of destining the revealing of the world, of making ‘truth’ happen, poiesis. However, modern technology, probably in an act of telic fulfillment, has evolved such that it comprehends and experiences the world immediately as a resource, as ‘standing-reserve’, to be relentlessly stored, used and reused via the most efficient means possible. As the essence of technology, this way of being is called ‘Enframing’.

Enframing has a tendency to forget that it is a way of destining revealing. Being more and more consumed by Enframing, we find ourselves being threatened by the imminent possibility of a kind of irreversible forgetting of the essence of technology, and beyond that, the essence of human beings, whose essence is the being who destins the revealing of the world, of truth.

The potential for and power to save man’s essence is inherent in this development inasmuch as being thrust into the danger of the possibility of the forgetting of his own and of the world’s essence has alerted him of the danger inherent in all destining of revealing, and particularly, given him a glimpse of the essence of technology, into the supreme danger of the tendency of Enframing to forget the forgetfulness of its own essence of its destining of revealing. This glimpse has given him the opportunity to revise his way (or be granted a way, since he is enframed into a world that challenges him to challenge nature forth rather than to hear it) of destining the revealing of the world.

The suggested revision is art; techne as poiesis; a ‘single, manifold’ way of destining revealing that incorporates the true, beautiful, radiant, and pious.