Explain Aristotle’s notion of techné.
They rearrange objects in space and cause bonding relations to begin to hold or to cease to hold (as in the case of the sculptor who chips away at a block of marble) between objects …” (Peter can Inwagen, Material Beings, p. 116). Do you agree with the view expressed in this quote? Explain your answer.
Explain the Ship of Theseus paradox. Explain the transitivity of identity. Why can we not solve the paradox by imposing a threshold of how many parts of thing (e.g., a ship) may be changed (e.g., 5%) before it is not the same thing any longer? How would you solve the Ship of Theseus paradox?
According to Heidegger, the essence of modern technology is ‘challenging revealing’ and ‘enframing.’ Explain Heidegger’s view on the essence of modern technology and on the danger of modern technology.