Summary/Outline of QT pt.2

Make sure to read part 1 first. The second half is significantly more stocked. The arguments are hard to abbreviate. Next up: the reorganization.

Discussion on the arising of the saving power from out of the danger

Hopeful assertion that “where the danger is, grows the saving power also”

If this is true, then there must be some possibility of Enframing not altogether blocking out access to understanding its own essence and stepping back from the precipice of existential obliteration. And if there is this possibility, is not the peering into the nature of the essence of Enframing that we have done, it?

In what sense is Enframing the ‘essence of technology’

Enframing is the essence of technology not in the sense of being Genus or essentia arching over all technology. That is, technologies are not all kinds of Enframe-ments. Instead, Enframing and Poiesis are both kinds of destining, but are not kinds of revealing. Instead, revealing manifests itself (“suddenly and inexplicably to all thinking”) as Poiesis and/or as Enframing, and which “allots itself to man.” Enframing originates in Poiesis, but at the same time, blocks Poiesis

Plato and Aristotle thought of the essence of a thing as how its presences, except they understood its presencing to be only that part of it that presenced permanently and unchangingly, i.e. the eternal form, or idea.

All presencing, essencing, endures. But it is too narrow to think of essencing only as permanently enduring essencing.

Etymological argument: to endure is to grant (grant appears to mean be granted)

Enframing can rightfully be called a granting if in it the saving power begins to grow

One explanation of how the saving power grows

So we see that “in a lofty sense the essence of technology is ambiguous”. On the one hand Enframing challenges forth all of nature to be ordered and therefore blocks mans view to seeing the revealing, how it reveals, what it conceals and unconceals, and so endangers mans relation to the truth. On the other hand, the granted sort of coming to pass of Enframing seems to have let man endure in such a way as to give him a glimpse of the essence of technology, a glimpse out of which his salvation may arise

“Through this we are not yet saved. Be we are thereupon summoned to hope in the growing light of the saving power. How can this happen? Here and there and in little things, that we may foster the saving power in its increase. This includes holding always before our eyes the extreme danger. “

Third line of questioning

Is there a kind of revealing that could bring about the shining forth of the saving power in the midst of the danger?

For the Greeks, techne referred to Poiesis, art

Assertion that essential reflection on art must happen in something both akin to it and different: art