Back to Heidegger: Summmary of "Science and Reflection"

This is just a quick overview of SR that I jotted down so I don't forget what it is about:

The essence of modern science remains ambiguous to spite much cultural speculation. This speculation fails because it is itself still caught up in the way of thinking - the essence - that makes modern science what it is. This way of thinking, the essence of all the modern sciences, is most basically the subject-object distinction. That is to say, it is the mental setting up of reality, of nature, to exhibit itself as an object. This mode of observation is the teleologically intrinsic outcome of earlier modes of thought. To wit, it can be seen as early as in Platonic thought - though it is not yet fully embodied there – and more fully in medieval thought. An etymological sojourn indicates the evolution of the idea of understanding reality from a open experience of it as it presents itself in flux through time, to a setting up of it into predefined and static modes of presentation. This objectness is merely only one way in which nature can exhibit itself, but modern science cannot understand itself as a way of setting up nature to exhibit itself in a certain way, and therefore cannot understand that there is more to the world that what it is when it set up to be calculable in advance in such and such a way, i.e. “Enframed”. The ultimate consummation of this can be seen in quantum physics, wherein even the object disappears, and the subject-object relation itself becomes the focuses of the observing. This way of presencing the world is, however, presented by the world, not imposed on it, and we are indeed approaching an age wherein the essence of science is revealed for what it is, a revelation which is also originates from out of nature, or that which presences, itself. To a diminutive extent, the line of question which is this essay (Science and Reflection) has glimpsed the essence of science, because it is written in a way that manifests not a metaphysical framework, a setting up of reality into a representation, but in a way that questions after the essence.

Recap of the etymological sojourn forthcoming…