{"title":"ON INSTRUMENTAL RATIONALITY: NIHILISTIC AND TOTALITARIAN POTENTIAL","authors":"A. Kravchenko, A. Morozov","doi":"10.33930/ed.2019.5007.31(2-3)-1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes the phenomenon of instrumental rationality, which underlies the processes of dehumanization, anonymity, irresponsibility, conformism. It is noted that Enlightenment nihilism as a distorted understanding of freedom, denying the cordocentric spiritual tradition, leads to the disintegration of the substantive unity of reason, giving rise to the relativization of morality and the aestheticization of evil. The positivist program, which deals with value-neutral scientific \"facts\", takes its meaning and supreme values beyond the logical structure of the world. Purified from morality, the \"Euclidean mind\" becomes a soulless and heartless technique of selection and calculation of optimal means to solve goals \"beyond good and evil\", and \"engineering\" approach to the study of nature and society in combination with the subject-object oriented \"strategic action\" and \"technical thinking\" creates the preconditions for the emergence of a specific situation of Totality, in which everything individual and individual is impossible.","PeriodicalId":52865,"journal":{"name":"Osvitnii diskurs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Osvitnii diskurs","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.33930/ed.2019.5007.31(2-3)-1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The article analyzes the phenomenon of instrumental rationality, which underlies the processes of dehumanization, anonymity, irresponsibility, conformism. It is noted that Enlightenment nihilism as a distorted understanding of freedom, denying the cordocentric spiritual tradition, leads to the disintegration of the substantive unity of reason, giving rise to the relativization of morality and the aestheticization of evil. The positivist program, which deals with value-neutral scientific "facts", takes its meaning and supreme values beyond the logical structure of the world. Purified from morality, the "Euclidean mind" becomes a soulless and heartless technique of selection and calculation of optimal means to solve goals "beyond good and evil", and "engineering" approach to the study of nature and society in combination with the subject-object oriented "strategic action" and "technical thinking" creates the preconditions for the emergence of a specific situation of Totality, in which everything individual and individual is impossible.
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