ABSTRACT
This chapter 1) shows that technics and ethics can be regarded as two types of “light,” in the sense that they are two ways of “making appear,” 2) argues that on the one hand Heidegger’s way of describing technics as a mode of revelation, and on the other hand Levinas way of describing ethics as a mode of revelation, are two robust candidates for describing these two lights, and 3) describes the complicated relations between these two lights. Finally, the chapter hopes to show that as strange as it might seem, in order to see things clearly, the question of the relation between machines and morals should be examined on this level of description, far away from numerous questions that appear to be more immediate and concrete but actually only saturate actuality instead of clarifying it.
