Philosophical Framework for Ethical Values of Technology Budi Hartanto (Researcher for the Society for Philosophy and Technology) The view of technology as salvation is very common for people concomitant to the progress of modern civilization. This is the reason existentialist philosophers, in the first half of twenty century, face a challenge for questioning its virtue. Now we have to be more aware of the problem that existentialists has posted. From industrial waste to internet technologies, they are all philosophically pertinent to discuss. Ethical discourse proposed by existentialism has given us insight about non- neutral character of technology. It is entity which is able to cause ethical problem and determines behavior. But how this generic term of technical objects becomes non-neutral? I will elucidate a framework for ethical values of technology from existentialism and mediation theory perspective. These philosophical approaches generate an idea that discussing ethics now is not limited to human being, per se, but includes technology. Existentialists response to the progress of modern civilization mainly is how technology could distort human self authenticity. Even if it changes the nature of human body and tranquility of the environment, it is not substantial as its existential impacts. Martin Heidegger, a pioneer in philosophy of technology, believes ontological meaning of technology transforms our mode of being in the world. It is not direct functional form that makes it non-neutral entity, but its essence which is termed by Heidegger as enframing (1954). Through this essential meaning, the world reveals its technological secret which then becomes part of our being. The phenomenon of mass shootings, for example, explain how the existence of gun could drive people to use it without moral considerations. In Heidegger’s thought, negative potential effect of gun is part of ontological meaning of technology. It has its own logical function like nature, consequently we cannot do much about it. The dangerous of mystery of technology in Heidegger’s philosophy, in this case gun, can be seen here as destining which cannot be changed. Gabriel Marcel (1952), French existentialist philosopher, takes similar disposition. Technology has reduced what he believes to be the virtue of being human. He underlines the importance of existential qualities such as integrity, togetherness and spirituality concerning the progress of modern civilization.