The paper questions the essence of technology and simultaneously considers the role of technology in the constitution of humanity. The first part uses Heideggers concepts to problematize the instrumental essence of technics, which says that technics is merely a means, and the ancient Greek conception of technics, which says that technics is a way of revealing reality. I will show that technics always implements both moments, but that within modern technology they are united by a tendency towards absolute truth, i.e. with a metaphysical tendency that at the same time seems neutral. I problematize modern technics and neutrality via the concept of revelation, which says that technics is always the creation of the indefinite, something we are yet to learn, and with the help of human-technological development, which shows that technics always directs man and vice versa. I consider the relationship between metaphysics and technics, with the help of Stiegler, further in the second part, where I will show that technics is a substitute for original human indeterminacy and that the relationship with technics first allows for the understanding of temporality. I will present external time, i.e. the time of technics, as first finite and only indirectly infinite, which means that technics is always historical before it is merely a means, and at the same time it is also a means that will condition future history. Technics will thus never be able to satisfy metaphysical goals, since it is never static. The human-technical relationship will be presented as a discursive relationship, where it is a matter of constantly influencing, directing and co-enabling both.
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