Abstract
This paper revisits Heidegger’s views on science and examines the relationship between science and thinking. Science, dominated by metaphysical subject-object thinking, understands beings (Seiende) as an object while forgetting the Being (Sein), and for Heidegger, this lack of understanding of Being is the lynchpin to his perception of modern science. This paper re-examines Heidegger’s challenge and concludes that while science ignores Being, Heidegger’s assessment of science is not a critique of science per se, but rather a critique of the danger the scientific way of thinking poses to our life world. It suggests that our unrestricted use of scientific thinking makes the meaning of Being in our own lifeworld become lost. What Heidegger implies is not that “science does not think,” but that human beings who living in the metaphysical and scientifical thinking do not think.
Highlights
Heidegger’s study of modern science and technology is still very influential today, and his famous comment, “Science does not think.” (Heidegger, 1993: p. 374), has been given different reflections by many researchers
“On each side, in both ancient and modern science, we find a handling of both facts and concepts, but the mode and manner in which facts are conceived and concepts established prove decisive.” (Heidegger, 2018: p. 45)
At the same time, the subject-object projectional thinking of modern science-technology provides the practical context of planning a certain kind of being as a resource, so that it can be revealed as a certain special essence
Summary
Heidegger’s study of modern science and technology is still very influential today, and his famous comment, “Science does not think.” (Heidegger, 1993: p. 374), has been given different reflections by many researchers. To clarify the reasons for Heidegger’s attitude against science, I will interpret Heidegger’s central concept, namely the meaning of Being, which is the starting point for Heidegger’s “anti-science” assertion. It is not science itself that Heidegger criticizes, but the violation of our living world by the metaphysical thinking of science. The conclusion is that scientific thinking is neutral, and while it is true that from Heidegger’s point of view he cannot understand Being, it is this lack of existential understanding that allows science to evolve. We do not need to be wary of science itself, but the unrestricted introduction of scientific thinking into our world to influence our understanding of Being
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